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UGA Subscription Site Opinions
imissmunson
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I was thinking of asking for a subscription to one of the UGA sites for Christmas. Does anyone here pay for Rivals, 247, The Athletic (I miss Seth Emerson articles), etc? If so, what do you think of it? Is it worth it? What do you like most? Thanks!
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I don’t and feel like I eventually find the information I am looking for even on topics outside of Dawgnation imissmuson bro.
I'm the same. That's why I defend the Dawgnation writers when the "see no evil hear no evil" folks get mad about something Chip or whoever writes for the site...
You're not going to get the type of stuff that @JeffSentell gives us for free on any of the other sites. I would be interested to hear from others though as I've never paid for one of the premium sites.
100% scooter bro. Dawgnation has some real good and hard working people on staff. Not blowing smoke, but compared to some other boards I mess around with shows the difference between Dawgnation and the others boards.
Sentell is amazing, but it sucks for sure not to have Emerson.
The Athletic is 100% worth it. It's so cheap and you get EVERY writer they've been poaching. The Emerson articles are great. He still does his mailbags, has done some live chats, and will write about things off the beaten path like last week's Malkom Parrish story, or the creek running underneath Sanford. Plus you can sneak in on other teams who have dedicated beat writers.
Best part? no ads. And they have a great app where you can curate your own feed and only see the stories you want. I know I sound like I'm employed by them, but it really has been a great pickup...not having the ads has been incredible and worth the price just for that
Do these sites not have free trials that you can sign up for and check out yourself?
Maybe they don’t, I’ve never checked.
Bizarre if they don’t though. Like every pay internet service I’ve ever used had a free trial associated with it.
Thanks everyone! I really appreciate it. And I’m with all of you who love DawgNation, which is why I’ve never really considered subscribing to others before. I might try the Athletic, as I’m pretty sure they have a free trial, but I haven’t even looked into the others...figured I’d get some opinions around here first. Thanks again!!! Go Dawgs!
I have been on Rivals for about a year and you get great information that I haven't really seen anywhere else. It is well worth it in my opinion especially for practice updates and recruiting tidbits.
From what I’ve seen mentioned around, The Athletic is by far the one that tries the hardest to actually inform you. You’d learn more subscribing to that one. But depending on what you enjoy, you may have more fun screwing around in the gossip mongering pay forums instead. It’s like what do you want, a site like a cable news network or a site more like The Wall Street Journal? The Athletic is more like The Wall Street Journal. Although it’s covering sports and not finance, so it’s gonna be a lot easier to read.
I think you made the right choice, But there are plenty of people out there who enjoy cable news.
the athletic has a 7 day trial
I am sure all of them have something equivalent
dawg post is currently running 2 months or so for $2
the athletic is $48/year for the first year if you pay up front after your trial
Not sure anyone else has seen the TopBillin film breakouts on youtube but the guy who does the videos has a "Committed to the G" page on patreon.com I got a subscription last month and so far its pretty good. His breakdown on the keys to beating Bama were spot on and if you like TopBillin you will like his site
I was on the train of never paying for info on sports. Which is why I had to stop reading the ajc which made me miss DOB's and Carrol Rodgers writing on the Braves. A few of you on here have stated how great the Athletic was. Then they poached DOB and I started to consider it. Then for Cyber Monday it was 60% off. $2 a month, that's 2 hrs to feed a parking meter. So I subscribed.
My opinion on the Athletic is a good one. Very well written and researched articles. Now it's not breaking news stuff. If you're looking for breaking news or recruiting info, you're not going to get it. Also I haven't found much opinion/debate pieces. More so just well researched and written articles. I liked Emerson's articles on here not so much his live feed stuff. The article on Malcolm Parrish was beautifully written.
wish I knew about the cyber Monday deal!
also, I'll add with the athletic not only is their app incredibly clean but it also marks articles as Read. it has several little nice things like that built into the app. and the app and website communicate so if read in one spot it'll mark as read in the other
I like that feature a lot.
Yeah I've been a TopBillin Patreon member for a little while, it's pretty good from an X's and O's perspective. I'm even an Uncle Lou Patreon member, I think he's hilarious. But I usually get all the info I need right here searching these forums.
I was listening to the UGAsports podcast the other day and they've gotta pretty decent deal I think. Their subscription is $99 (not sure for how long) but when you order now, you get $99 worth of Georgia Bulldogs merchandise for free. Which I thought made spending a hundred bucks worth it.