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Idaho State Football Wiki

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biobengal

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Anybody ever do much work on Wikipedia? Idaho State Football has Wiki page, a select few from the BSC do as well. IMO, here's a chance to improve ISU athletics public image. In fact, when searching, a wiki page is ofte the first page that is shown due to the number of links on the site.

I've poked around for a little while making small changes... I would love some help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_State_Bengals_football#cite_note-4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
I completely agree!!!!!!!!!!!! We need to get the page up to snuff. The athletic department has to have an intern/grad student that should be working on this. This should not have to be done by the fans. The page needs pics lots of pics of the dome and the athletic facilities. The former players should be identified. Former players donations to the school. The uniforms need to be displayed.
 
I brought this up with Steve Schaack last night on the coach's show and just e-mailed him the link to the page. He expressed a lot of interest about working on the page...
 
Not only does ISU need to update the Wikipedia site but ISU needs to get a rivals recruiting site. Eastern Washington has one and a couple others from the FCS do. ISU needs to get access to this kind of marketing and information sites. This is how you generate support and interest in a program that does not have a winning record. I have included the link to rivals requiting can anyone look into this.


http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/sitelanding.asp#college
 
Back when we were using ProBoards to host the message board (3 or 4 years ago), I looked into Rivals. Bottom line -- they aren't interested in FCS schools, because they don't see them as a money making opportunity.

I contacted the administrator for EWU's Rivals site at that same time, and he had the same experience. He knew the individual who was running the Washington preps site, and he was able to work through him to get EWU's Rivals site. Interestingly enough, he told me at the time that if he could do it over, he never would have gone on Rivals. It took away a lot of freedom he had from his previous site, and Rivals requires a certain number of articles/reports each month. You need somebody who is not only well connected, but who also has a lot of time and can research/create the required number of reports. If you look at EWU's site, it hasn't been updated in a couple of years (the last report I saw was from April, 2010).

It might be different today; however, by looking at the list of schools, I'm guessing not. At least the search function can be used and includes most FCS schools, including ISU...

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/recruit-search
 
Whoever runs a Rivals site cannot have direct affiliation with the school because it is essentially a recruiting site and there are strict rules on contacts with recruits.
 
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