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Hi everyone. The announcement below has been posted to the main page but I wanted to share it here as well. As stated in the announcement, this was a very difficult decision to make, but also very necessary. I hope you will understand.
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To friends, fans and visitors of D2Football.com:
Since 2000, D2football.com has been the go-to resource for news, information, education and discussion on all things involving NCAA Division II football. That mission has not changed and will not change as we move forward. However, many of you know that we have been navigating challenges since owner and founder Brandon Misener suffered a health emergency in May, 2024. While we still have plans for Brandon to rejoin us in some capacity, at present, that is not possible. As we continue to chart our path forward without Brandon’s day-to-day involvement, there is an operational change that I want to open about.
For two decades we have maintained a near-real time scoreboard on the website. Considering our resource constraints and the accessibility of scores through other means, we have decided to retire the process. Beginning this season, we will no longer be updating scores in real time on the scores page. This was a very difficult decision for our team.
Unfortunately, delivering that service has always been a time consuming and laborious task. Updating scores is a completely manual. We would love to have automation to synch to every team’s live stats, but that is not something that can be accomplished within our resources. Managing our scores page involved at least one person (and frequently more) monitoring all active games through live stats, video, and social media posts and manually entering updates as they occur. This process would begin at noon, eastern on Saturdays and continue until midnight. At peak times there could be as many as 60 games active simultaneously.
In the past, Brandon managed the scores page solo on many game days. On others, he was able to lean on dedicated helpers. Facilitating that process has become unsustainable. My priority is attending games in person, but on most game days, as soon as I return to home base, the first thing I do is login to our admin site and update scores. I have been doing that for 15 years and many others on the team have assisted as well. It is a huge commitment, and frankly, for many of us on the team, a distraction as well.
When Brandon’s health forced him to the sideline prior to last season, we lost the person most capable of coordinating efforts to update the scores along with any resources that could be leveraged. We considered discontinuing score updates last summer but we decided to continue because we knew how important it was to Brandon. I’m sad to say, it ended up making last season very difficult for our team and we have decided that we will not put ourselves in that position again. Everyone that contributes to this site is a volunteer. All of us have limited time to put into it. Witt, myself and Brandon have decided that the collective time and energy of our team is best put to use via the columns and podcasts that we produce. As such, we will no longer invest time and effort in updating scores of live action. We will update final scores at the end of every day so the results will still appear on the schedule for each day and for each team.
For real time scores, updates are easy to find on team social media accounts and live stat links, which we do provide on the schedule page. The NCAA also maintains a scoreboard for Division II.
I know this will be very disappointing to many of you and we appreciate that you have trusted us to be the best source for keeping up with scores. This was a very tough decision to make, but it is the right path forward to make the best use of the resources we have.
Chuck Bitner
Editor-in-chief
D2Football.com
[email protected]
__________________________________________________ _
To friends, fans and visitors of D2Football.com:
Since 2000, D2football.com has been the go-to resource for news, information, education and discussion on all things involving NCAA Division II football. That mission has not changed and will not change as we move forward. However, many of you know that we have been navigating challenges since owner and founder Brandon Misener suffered a health emergency in May, 2024. While we still have plans for Brandon to rejoin us in some capacity, at present, that is not possible. As we continue to chart our path forward without Brandon’s day-to-day involvement, there is an operational change that I want to open about.
For two decades we have maintained a near-real time scoreboard on the website. Considering our resource constraints and the accessibility of scores through other means, we have decided to retire the process. Beginning this season, we will no longer be updating scores in real time on the scores page. This was a very difficult decision for our team.
Unfortunately, delivering that service has always been a time consuming and laborious task. Updating scores is a completely manual. We would love to have automation to synch to every team’s live stats, but that is not something that can be accomplished within our resources. Managing our scores page involved at least one person (and frequently more) monitoring all active games through live stats, video, and social media posts and manually entering updates as they occur. This process would begin at noon, eastern on Saturdays and continue until midnight. At peak times there could be as many as 60 games active simultaneously.
In the past, Brandon managed the scores page solo on many game days. On others, he was able to lean on dedicated helpers. Facilitating that process has become unsustainable. My priority is attending games in person, but on most game days, as soon as I return to home base, the first thing I do is login to our admin site and update scores. I have been doing that for 15 years and many others on the team have assisted as well. It is a huge commitment, and frankly, for many of us on the team, a distraction as well.
When Brandon’s health forced him to the sideline prior to last season, we lost the person most capable of coordinating efforts to update the scores along with any resources that could be leveraged. We considered discontinuing score updates last summer but we decided to continue because we knew how important it was to Brandon. I’m sad to say, it ended up making last season very difficult for our team and we have decided that we will not put ourselves in that position again. Everyone that contributes to this site is a volunteer. All of us have limited time to put into it. Witt, myself and Brandon have decided that the collective time and energy of our team is best put to use via the columns and podcasts that we produce. As such, we will no longer invest time and effort in updating scores of live action. We will update final scores at the end of every day so the results will still appear on the schedule for each day and for each team.
For real time scores, updates are easy to find on team social media accounts and live stat links, which we do provide on the schedule page. The NCAA also maintains a scoreboard for Division II.
I know this will be very disappointing to many of you and we appreciate that you have trusted us to be the best source for keeping up with scores. This was a very tough decision to make, but it is the right path forward to make the best use of the resources we have.
Chuck Bitner
Editor-in-chief
D2Football.com
[email protected]
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