A Farewell To My Pantherlair Brothren
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I don't understand why most wouldn't just stay here.
Peak's posts in a nutshell:
"Who are the top five players on the team this week?"
"What are the top five Narduzzi wins?"
"Pitt keeping a close eye on a freshman running back who graduates in three years."
Him leaving doesn't necessarily change this board much.
Peak's posts in a nutshell:
"Who are the top five players on the team this week?"
"What are the top five Narduzzi wins?"
"Pitt keeping a close eye on a freshman running back who graduates in three years."
Him leaving doesn't necessarily change this board much.
I will be honest, I absolutely hated going pretty much all podcasts from Peak. I rarely listened. I want to read at my own pace, during conference/training calls, I can't do that with podcasts.
Yeah, I listened for a while but stopped some time during this past football season. I'm not saying he's bad at what he does, but:
1) There probably just isn't enough to talk about to warrant a daily podcast. It might be different if this was a playoff program, so it's not really Peak's fault.
2) I don't know that he has the personality to do that every day. I mean that in as nice of a way possible, because the people who do are often the Filliponi hot-take types. But I could only take hearing the URL address we need to click on and discussing top 5 lists so many times.
Yeah, he's got good info but only about 5 minutes-worth that he stretches into 15 minutes. It's tough to listen to.
Peak is so dry. Awful delivery . Like watching paint dry. He won’t be missed. He’s no JJ Kitchen.
There’s a lot of people that can do a podcast and default to “can be really good” when talking about any unit or player.
Haha, yeah - neither of the two above do it for me. Peak is kind of repetitive and, while I don't dislike him at all, pretty uninteresting in that role. Kitchen, on the other hand, seems aggressively overly-optimistic and homerish.
I kind of just want someone who tells it like it is - good and bad - and does so in an engaging way. I don't doubt that it's not the easiest thing in the world to produce 20 minutes of content every day. At the same time, no one says he has to do it every day.
Now to be fair to Peak, his “this guy/unit can be really good” view of everything is pretty standard amongst all these guys.
If you listen to Bud Elliot’s summer school, all he has on is 247 board guys to discuss their team. And all of them have a “glass overflowing” view of their team.
I've seen a few of those and have kind of interpreted it as them thinking that's how Bud Elliot wanted them to act or something. Because there's no way any of them could be that dense. Although a few of them barely sounded like they were plugged into the team they supposedly cover.
In general, I prefer podcasts that include a couple different people having a discussion, rather than someone going off on a soliloquy, which I feel lends itself to saying the same things multiple times.
I don’t think it’s what Elliot wants per se.
But it’s not a confrontational set up. Elliot largely plays the role of the listener at home: an outsider that is interested about the team and doesn’t have the knowledge to counter anything.
So he just gives the floor to them. There’s no reason why everything should be so extremely rosy except for the fact that all these insiders are left to paint the narrative as they see it, and they all paint it that way.
He's an idiot. He's proven that a million times over. If could have gotten a real job, he would have.
In Chris's defense......................Pitt football hasn't helped. It is not interesting anymore.
I've always wondered how much Peak was pulling in from this gig. I assume a decent junk of change, or he wouldn't have been hiring other contributors to the site. Pretty sure he's indicated the number of subscribers is in the thousands. So if we assume 3,500 at $100/year, you're looking at a $350K gross. Even if Rivals takes half of that - and I have absolutely no idea if they do - it's a pretty stress-free way to make a nice living. Especially if you can get on a working spouse's health insurance plan.
Yeah whatever he makes, it's been solid enough to do it full time for 20 years. He also gets revenue from other sources like YouTube.
I don't know how much he works per week and I'm sure some of it is boring stuff like site management and bookkeeping but getting paid to follow and talk about your favorite team all day for two decades isn't a bad gig. Unfortunately for him, that team is also Pitt. I'd really struggle to keep locking in week after week while they're on a 6 game losing streak.
I wouldn't have guessed he was making any money from YouTube, but a quick Google search tells me one can make between $.01 and $.03 per view, or between $10-$30 per 1,000 views. So, in conjunction with the super chat feature, he's probably pulling in at least $500/month that way (if not more, as I may be underestimating how much he gets in drunken super chat rants during football season). Not terrible supplemental income while advertising the site in the process.
That almost sounds like the exterminators are coming, or the parents are returning home from vacation and the house is in shambles.
Supposedly local guys and we will be "pleased" - i.e. not Vuk or Dokish.
We shall see.
He used to inflate our recruits' rankings all the time. We need to get back to that!
Make Rivals' Pitt Rankings Great Again!
I remember feeling like a champion when we landed Josh Lay who was 3 star over the Nits.
