(11/2/2010: Poll Added) Open Discussion: New "Football" Forum

While this BBS does slant towards Houston/Texas teams, it's clearly an international meeting place.

I propose:

Football
Baseball
Other Sports

 

Yeah - upon further thought, I think a Texans/Astros forum (as is now) plus an "All Other Sports" forum might be ideal. Both forums should have enough activity to keep their quality up. I just would caution against separating out the NFL from Baseball from College Basketball, etc.

Yeah - I didn't state that well at all. I'm thinking having an "All Other Sports" forum would kind of attract the same Hangout people you have now posting in the NFL threads and MLB Playoffs threads, along with the people in the Texans/Astros forum. So those are sort of a subset of people already here that have a nice community feel. I think that's a good idea.

My concern with the mass of people would be if you wanted to make Clutchfans into THE place for all Houston sports. So if someone not connected to the site was looking for Texans talk, they'd come here - then you start getting more GARMy if the site really becomes known for the Texans the same way its known for the Rockets. I'm not saying it's a bad thing - it certainly helps grow the site and that's of course a good thing; I just personally am not a fan of what's happened to the GARM.

Really, I'm not sure there will be a perfect solution - each probably has its plusses and minuses. It may just be worth trying something you feel comfortable with and seeing how it works. You can always change it up a few months from now if it doesn't play out like you hope.

 

I think discussion in an 'All Football' forum would be great (and this would include the Texans). I've always felt it's pretty disjointed that I had to read about the Texans in one forum, the rest of the NFL or college in another, etc. One forum for that would generate good amounts of content.

That leaves a 'Astros/other Houston sports' forum, which I would be fine with, since I'm not sure there's enough participation in anything else that would require it's own forum.

 

Football Forum
Baseball Forum

That would be awesome

 

I like the idea of a NFL/College specific forum.... as well as one for Baseball in the same way.

I would say then you would have to replace "Houston Sports" with "Other Sports" for it to make sense... unless you had both??

Houston Sports with a subforum for each team
and
Other with a sub forum for each sport?

 

I'm all for the idea of expanding the Texans and Astros forum. I always thought ClutchFans could become more of a Houston sports site rather than mostly Rockets specific. It will always be Rockets-centric but expanding it as a Houston sports site would be great. I don't know if there are any sites devoted to Houston sports in general. ClutchFans could be that site.

 

I like an all football forum, though I like the Houston teams separate just like the NBA Dish and the GARM.

 

I like the Houston Sports forum and it should stay that way.
And I like the idea of making an NFL Dish, it would be nice, and another subforum about college football (im not a fan of it, but I think there would be a lot of people reading it).

For me a nice design ot would be:

Nothing but .Net
-Feedback

Lets Talk Rocks
- GARM
- NBA Dish (including Int'l Basketball)

Hangout
- BBS Hangout
- D&D
- Classifieds
- Fantasy Sports

Houston Sports
Texans, Astros, Dynamo

Other Sports
- NFL Dish
- MLB Dish
- Other Sports (Golf, Soccer, NHL, Nascar, Olympics, etc)

College Sports
- Football
- Basketball

 

keep it bball centric...i realize creating a football forum won't change the focus of clutchfans but...im scared

 

I like this idea, and it seems to be the general consensus. But, I too, think that we can eleminate the College and Int'l forum. I think the International Pro Basketball and NBA Draft threads can combine into the NBA dish. I think all other discussions on college basketball and college sports in general(like March Madness, BCS, College World Series, etc.) could go into the NCAA dish forum. It seems like a lot of forums, and honestly, it might be too many for Clutch, but if it's doable, I think that might have the best "flow" to it.

Oh, and we also need a dedicated forum to poop and piss threads.

 

I like the idea of a football-only forum. I wouldn't remove the Texans from it, though. It seems like football discussions across the NFL can relate to all the teams in some meaningful way. Likewise, separating college and NFL into their own forums would be meaningless during the offseason when draft coverage would clearly blur the line too much.

One vote for a football-only forum.

Good idea, guys.

 

Although I do like the "Houston Sports" forum, for it's one-stop shopping for local flavor, I kinda think it would split up the traffic and defeat the purpose of having dedicated NFL, MLB, NCAA forums if we kept the Houston Sports forum alive. The majority of the discussions around here revolve around Houston stuff, so let's just put them into their respective sport forums and roll with it.

I think it's a better idea to keep as few sub forums as possible, nothing is more frustrating than having to bounce from forum to forum just to find a discussion worth jumping into.

 

I like this the best. Keep it simple.

GOD I love football!

 

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I think two forums could conceivably cover it and have a lot of traffic.

Football and Baseball/Other Sports. Football is king most places in Texas (this site being an exception due to its Rockets heritage).

Football would get year round traffic, the Baseball/Other Sports forum would be mostly baseball in season...but would have plenty of traffic other times from Soccer/Golf/Hockey/NASCAR/Competitive Tiddly Winks...whatever.

 

I definitely would not want to see the fantasy sports forum removed or repositioned. We have a nice little community there which I believe should be kept in place in one area.

I'm all for adding forums for additional sports discussion. I think a generic Football, Baseball, Badminton and Other layout would be fine.

 

For me it depends.

The fantasy forum doesn't see a ton of traffic, so depending on how many sub-forums get made it could be needed or not needed.

Assuming that all other forum categories (hangout, lets talk rocks, .net, etc) stay the same... this is how I would prefer it.

Other Sports
Football Dish (NFL, NCAA)
MLB/Soccer/NHL/Nascar
Fantasy Sports


If MLB and NCAA were made into its own forums, then I might rather see the fantasy forum disbanded to prevent "over categorization"... the other reason being that most of the talk that goes on the in fantasy forum is basically just chewing the fat over the topics in the NFL, MLB, etc. So it's almost already like a subforum of those particular sports anyway.

 

I completely disagree and want it kept intact regardless of what happens with the other sports forums.

 

You don't like the format I posted above?