Josh Heupel's career reboot

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After Josh Heupel was fired at Oklahoma, he ended up back in Utah as Matt Wells' OC at Utah State. There, he rebooted his career and charted a new course that led him to Tennessee.

I spent last week talking to people around Heupel at Utah State about that formative year

“He does a nice job of simplifying a complicated game,” Wells said. “He tries to get quarterbacks’ eyes in the right direction, simplify their thinking and being very repetitive in terms of thinking, route progressions, reads and keys and what they need to know for each play.”
 
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I think UTs football program needs more of a reboot than Heupels career.
 
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VolForLife83 said:
Yes and I'm sure if one wanted, they can find all the information. Can't blame him for trying, but I'm surprised people still pay for this kind of stuff.
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David Ubben said:
After Josh Heupel was fired at Oklahoma, he ended up back in Utah as Matt Wells' OC at Utah State. There, he rebooted his career and charted a new course that led him to Tennessee.

I spent last week talking to people around Heupel at Utah State about that formative year

“He does a nice job of simplifying a complicated game,” Wells said. “He tries to get quarterbacks’ eyes in the right direction, simplify their thinking and being very repetitive in terms of thinking, route progressions, reads and keys and what they need to know for each play.”
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Ad revenue supports this site (Looks like banner ads at the top of the page), if you’re going to advertise your own paid product I hope you and @Freak have a deal.
 
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It's about the Vols so I don't see what the big deal is. It's not like he's selling socks. People link other pay to view stuff here all the time. David's being up front about who he is.
 
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Hacksaw said:
It's about the Vols so I don't see what the big deal is. It's not like he's selling socks. People link other pay to view stuff here all the time. David's being up front about who he is.
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Linking to something you don’t profit from vs advertising your own site are very different. Especially on a site that earns revenue through paid ads.
 
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I happen to have the 6 month promotion from The Athletic, $1 a month for 6 months. I thought the article was good, very insightful. I'll let Freak handle if posting in that way is appropriate.
 
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Falcons02 said:
I happen to have the 6 month promotion from The Athletic, $1 a month for 6 months. I thought the article was good, very insightful. I'll let Freak handle if posting in that way is appropriate.
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I think eventually, David (and others) are going to cotton to Freak's "free to play" model of site monetization.

I mean, as he does it currently, David gets 1 person paying him $1 a month, and 10 other people loudly refusing. Meanwhile, Freak has all 11 of those people clicking on his forum pages, over and over and over again, each click generating ad revenue. Freak is figuring out what color his second yacht ought to be while David sits there wondering when his site is going to take off.

If you have good content, especially if you have a bunch of other people continuously adding to your content with their conversations about the articles you write, and you have a clean, user-friendly structure with unobtrusive ads, you're gonna make bank. Freak is a genius. Some day, David will shift to the F2P model. Only trouble is, then he will be a competitor to Freak, rather than a valued community member.
 
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VolForLife83 said:
Yes and I'm sure if one wanted, they can find all the information. Can't blame him for trying, but I'm surprised people still pay for this kind of stuff.
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The Athletic is 100% worth the subscription. It's like $5 a month, and the sports coverage is so much better than anything else anywhere.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I think eventually, David (and others) are going to cotton to Freak's "free to play" model of site monetization.

I mean, as he does it currently, David gets 1 person paying him $1 a month, and 10 other people loudly refusing. Meanwhile, Freak has all 11 of those people clicking on his forum pages, over and over and over again, each click generating ad revenue. Freak is figuring out what color his second yacht ought to be while David sits there wondering when his site is going to take off.

If you have good content, especially if you have a bunch of other people continuously adding to your content with their conversations about the articles you write, and you have a clean, user-friendly structure with unobtrusive ads, you're gonna make bank. Freak is a genius. Some day, David will shift to the F2P model. Only trouble is, then he will be a competitor to Freak, rather than a valued community member.
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Freak has the market, there’s no threat of competition. Most of us have been here 12-15 years! Lol
 
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Probably_in_Class said:
The Athletic is 100% worth the subscription. It's like $5 a month, and the sports coverage is so much better than anything else anywhere.
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It has many writers from various newspapers across the country which I used to read individually. For me the small monthly fee is worth the content.

And @JP, when is Freak inviting us all over for his yacht christening?
 
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As long as Ubben receives paychecks from them, I’ll save my $5.
 
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