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IN SPORTS ILLUSTRATED... In
the Nov, 26 2001 issue of SI,
senior writer John O’Keefe wrote
about collegeinsider.com’s
weekly Mid-Major Top 25 poll.
The half-page article focused on
the voting panel, the Top 25
criteria and it’s importance
come March.
This feature made the already
popular ranking system a
nationally recognized and
respected measuring stick for
schools outside the proverbial
power conferences. The article
also brought more attention to
the entire collegeinsider.com
site.
Since this feature story ran, many
media outlets of unsuccessfully
attempted to produce their own
weekly mid-major rankings. Often
imitated -- but never duplicated
-- collegeinsider.com’s
mid-major Top 25 is only ranking
system of its kind to be
recognized nationally.
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the Magazine, collegeinsider.com
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magazine’s list of 99 things to
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ESPN’s the Rickster, NBA all-star
Jason Kidd and super model Gabby
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coaches and fans alike.”
- Ben Howland (Head Coach, UCLA)
What Coaches
say about CollegeInsider.com
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Sample of
the Great Exposure and
Visibility
CollegeInsider.com, Inc. was
originally established in 1995
as a regional newsletter. The
product became an online
presence in 1996, with college
coaches taking active
participation in 1997.
CI has developed an implemented
unique and creative content like
"Coach Columns,"
"The
Mid-Major Top 25"
©
and
"The Runway
to the Fashionable Four"
©.
"The Mid-Major Top 25" is
now in its ninth year of
existence and, with 31 division
coaches on the voting panel, is
regarded nationally as the
measuring stick for programs
outside of the traditional power
conferences.
The Jim Phelan National Coach
of the Year Award was
created in March, 2003 to honor
Jim Phelan is the only person to
coach 49 years at one school and
coach over 1,300 career games.
He has nineteen 20-win seasons
and is third in wins on the
all-time Division I chart.
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In April, 2005 the Hugh Durham
National Coach of the Year Award
was created to recognize the
outstanding coaching career of
Hugh Durham. Durham built
national programs at Florida
State and at Georgia where he is
also the all-time winningest
coach in Bulldog history, having
won 297 games in 17 seasons.
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"The Runway to the Fashionable
4" has become a national
phenomenon, having been featured
on ESPN and Fox Sports, as well
as countless newspapers across
the country. It is now in its
sixth year of existence and
continues to grow.
What they
say about The Runway to the
Fashionable 4
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Sample of
the Media Coverage
The "Coach Column" feature
has become one of the staples of
CollegeInsider.com, with active
participation from coaches
across the country. Such
features as "Rants & Raves,"
"Perspectives" and "Remembrance"
have become fan favorites.
In the past few years CI has been
transformed into a combination
online-magazine and forum for
collegiate basketball coaches,
with a focus on the
human-interest side of the
sport.
Since its inception,
CollegeInsider.com, Inc. has
worked with such entities as
ACSSports.com, Basketball
Times, CBS SportsLine.com,
FoxSports.com and the
National Association of Basketball
Coaches.
In January of 2003,
CollegeInsider.com created
AllCoachNetwork.com,
which is an extensive network of
"official" coach websites. ACN
is the fastest growing site in
the CollegeInsider.com family of
websites.
What Coaches
say about AllCoachNetwork.com
Websites under the
CollegeInsider.com umbrella
include:
AllCoachNetwork.com
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Fashionable4.com
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GrabSomePineMeat.com
HughDurhamAward.com
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JimPhelanAward.com
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MidMajorTop25.com
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It has since become a favorite
among coaches and fans alike,
but collegeinsider.com's Runway
to the Fashionable 4 was in its
infancy stages when John
Feinstein brought attention to
it in “The Last Amateurs,” which
was published in 2000.
The author of “A Season on the
Brink” the story then Indiana
head coach Bob Knight, as well
as countless other books,
Feinstein was the first to give
the ‘style craze’ some national
attention.
On page 175 of “The Last
Amateurs,” Feinstein breaks down
former Lehigh head coach Sal
Mentesana’s run through the
fashion tournament, which was
highlighted by a win over friend
and two-time champion Jay Wright
(now the head coach at
Villanova).
In 2000 the Runway to the
Fashionable 4 had a cult
following among coaches and
fans, but it has reached new
heights in the years since the
books’ release.
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