CASTE FOOTBALL UPDATE

Very interesting and glad there is an uptick in visitor numbers! Agree about posting will try and keep up the posting as much as I can! I find the draft and weekly threads the best here. I don't share alot of the political views of many here as a Liberal brit but glad to find a group of people to discuss football who see the systematic bias and if I can make some points and make others see the light then all the better!
 
i listened to your segment, Don. rather than enjoying it, however, i had to force myself to listen to the end. the co-host (Keith?) kept interrupting and talking over you, frequently with inane remarks. i’m happy you got some exposure, but this segment wasn’t James’ best work.
 
Jimmy Chitwood said:
i listened to your segment, Don. rather than enjoying it, however, i had to force myself to listen to the end. the co-host (Keith?) kept interrupting and talking over you, frequently with inane remarks. i’m happy you got some exposure, but this segment wasn’t James’ best work.
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I had been on the show several times in the past but not for a number of years, so leading up to it I listened to the most recent one to get a feel for it. However James was working by himself on that one, asking guests questions and then letting them talk for a long time, so it took me a while to get used to Keith's role and get into the rhythm of it.

James and Keith are both folksy talkers; it's a show where I'm simply glad to be on and speak for whatever time I'm given. I've listened to it and think Keith was making good points, I'll be a little more rapid fire and concise in my responses next time and be more prepared for the interruptions.
 
When accessing the site via Safari, I keep getting denied with “your IP adress has been banned.” Not every time, but frequently not allowing me on the site. Logged in through Chrome tonight and got right in.
 
Leonardfan said:
Just curious if there is anyway to see what the uptick in traffic is? Is it unique visitors? Bots? Combination of both. Noticed it was over 10000 visitors yesterday
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There's over 15,000 on right now. Best my webmaster can figure out there's a lot of "aggressive AI bots" contributing to the numbers, which makes sense. Maybe CF will get more of a fair shake from AI when it comes to queries related to the topics we cover than we do from the search engines.

At times the sheer number has seemed to overwhelm the site causing it to send an error message, but they don't last long and it hasn't happened for several days. As some posters may have noticed, we continue to be plagued with spammers signing up and then some of them start a bunch of threads promoting various things. Most are in Russian of late. Fortunately I can delete them quickly when I see it happening.
 
Not sure if this is related, but when I was using the Safari browser I would regularly get an error message that my ip address was banned. I couldn’t login to the site. Now I use DuckDuckGo for Caste Football, with no problems.
 
icsept said:
Not sure if this is related, but when I was using the Safari browser I would regularly get an error message that my ip address was banned. I couldn’t login to the site. Now I use DuckDuckGo for Caste Football, with no problems.
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If an IP address is banned it should be banned on all browsers, so not sure what happened there.
 
Don't reply to spam threads, it makes them harder to find and delete. If there's a bunch of them started and I'm not online, send me a pm to let me know as I'll probably find out faster by checking my email and seeing that a member is alerting me to what's going on.

There's a steady supply of them signing up every day, most apparently Russian.
 
Don Wassall said:
If an IP address is banned it should be banned on all browsers, so not sure what happened there.
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It’s strange. I got a new phone and switched service to AT&T. That’s when I started receiving the “Oops, something went wrong. Your IP address has been banned” message. About half the times I tried to login, I would get that message. A few hours later, I would try again, and usually login successfully. I downloaded the Duck Duck Go browser and I’ve never received that message again. Anyway, all’s well that ends well.
 
Great show as usual. Thanks for the update. I hope more members stop looking & start posting!

Also I hope we have some new people sign up to be members here.
 
I just listened to the Blood River Radio show with Don Wassall as the guest. The host is not very knowledgeable about the SEC in the late 60s. Football fans in Memphis in general have preferred Memphis State and Ole Miss over the University of Tennessee. The host, who seems a Bear Bryant worshipper, had an idea Bryant was the first coach in the SEC to recruit a black player. Wrong.

Kentucky recruited a black prospect in the fall of 1965, whose sophomore year would have been 1967.. He played some in 1967 but dropped out. Kentucky brought in a few the next year who played 1968-70. Tennessee, with coach Doug Dickey, signed two black players for the 1968 sophomore class. One was an all state fullback named Albert Davis who changed his mind and went to all-black Tennessee State, He didn't do much there, played a year for the Philadelphia Eagles.

With Davis, Tennessee recruited a WR-wingback who was supposed to be a room mate for Davis named Lester McLain who did pretty well, was a starter for three years. 1968-70, He was drafted by the Bears but didn't make the team.

Bear Bryant didn't have a black player until 1971 (after blacks at Kentucky and Tennessee had already played for three years) with a DE named John Mitchell (later a long-time NFL assistant coach) and RB Wilbur Jackson, who played several years with the 49ers and other teams.

Doug Dickey left Tennessee in 1970 for the Florida head coaching job. At Florida, Dickey recruited black players in wholesale lots. Florida had one black in 1970. By 1972, Dickey had brought in over 20.

I was a Tennessee fan in those days and followed these developments when they happened.
 
sport historian said:
I just listened to the Blood River Radio show with Don Wassall as the guest. The host is not very knowledgeable about the SEC in the late 60s. Football fans in Memphis in general have preferred Memphis State and Ole Miss over the University of Tennessee. The host, who seems a Bear Bryant worshipper, had an idea Bryant was the first coach in the SEC to recruit a black player. Wrong.

Kentucky recruited a black prospect in the fall of 1965, whose sophomore year would have been 1967.. He played some in 1967 but dropped out. Kentucky brought in a few the next year who played 1968-70. Tennessee, with coach Doug Dickey, signed two black players for the 1968 sophomore class. One was an all state fullback named Albert Davis who changed his mind and went to all-black Tennessee State, He didn't do much there, played a year for the Philadelphia Eagles.

With Davis, Tennessee recruited a WR-wingback who was supposed to be a room mate for Davis named Lester McLain who did pretty well, was a starter for three years. 1968-70, He was drafted by the Bears but didn't make the team.

Bear Bryant didn't have a black player until 1971 (after blacks at Kentucky and Tennessee had already played for three years) with a DE named John Mitchell (later a long-time NFL assistant coach) and RB Wilbur Jackson, who played several years with the 49ers and other teams.

Doug Dickey left Tennessee in 1970 for the Florida head coaching job. At Florida, Dickey recruited black players in wholesale lots. Florida had one black in 1970. By 1972, Dickey had brought in over 20.

I was a Tennessee fan in those days and followed these developments when they happened.
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The host Eddie "The Bombardier" Miller definitely doesn't have your photographic memory, but very few people do (and I mean that as a sincere compliment). I'm on his show a fair amount and we usually talk about politics but occasionally he likes to delve into sports and Caste Football. His show is pretty free form, certainly unscripted, and I don't know ahead of time what he's going to ask or bring up and I don't think he does either, which is part of the charm of the show.
 
Don Wassall said:
The host Eddie "The Bombardier" Miller definitely doesn't have your photographic memory, but very few people do (and I mean that as a sincere compliment). I'm on his show a fair amount and we usually talk about politics but occasionally he likes to delve into sports and Caste Football. His show is pretty free form, certainly unscripted, and I don't know ahead of time what he's going to ask or bring up and I don't think he does either, which is part of the charm of the show.
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I give Eddie Miller credit for letting you talk. Other talk show hosts I've heard who have an interesting guest talk endlessly themselves and don't let their guest say much.
 
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