I've been looking at a lot of NCAA athletic department websites while looking at colleges. Every single one is built on the same template. Can anyone explain why this is?
For example:
Oregon - goducks.com
Princeton - goprincetontigers.com
I've been looking at a lot of NCAA athletic department websites while looking at colleges. Every single one is built on the same template. Can anyone explain why this is?
For example:
Oregon - goducks.com
Princeton - goprincetontigers.com
Because there are about 3-4 companies that do athletic websites.
I would add that building a college athletics website is particularly annoying endeavor. Think about all the information on there that is constantly changing: rosters, schedules, results, etc.
I used to be a freelance web developer, and this is the exact type of project I avoid like the plague. A site with a million tiny things that the client will want updated over and over again.
So, yeah, it seems like a companies have built a little niche in creating a platform that makes this a little less painless for all involved. Good for them.
Long ago the NCAA contracted a web company in L.A. to do college team websites using a run-of-the-mill off-the-shelf CMS.
pogo wrote:
Because there are about 3-4 companies that do athletic websites.
What is the point of having a company just to do the athletic website? The school itself has a website. Why is the athletic website a completely separate entity?
why is it separate? wrote:
pogo wrote:Because there are about 3-4 companies that do athletic websites.
What is the point of having a company just to do the athletic website? The school itself has a website. Why is the athletic website a completely separate entity?
Because the academic website is a more professional one. They don't want the "rowdiness" and "unruliness" of athletics to be associated with the proper academia institution in anyway.
CBS Sports in Hollywood owns the NCAA television and web and has hundreds of Unix and Java geeks in Bangalore updating content 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The BYU track/xc website is pretty unique (unless they've changed it). Lots of animations and flash-like movements
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