After three years of running USCRipsIt, the RipsIt Blog and the online presence of the Trojan football team, I am resigning to take a similar position with the Seattle Seahawks.
This site and, most notably, the Blog have grown into something bigger than I could have ever imagined when we started it in August 2007. What began as a shot-in-the-dark idea to disseminate inside information about the Trojans eventually blossomed into what CNBC named the No. 1 all-access blog in sports last fall -- and what a ride it has been from start to finish.
We brought you along where no site has gone before -- inside team meetings, the locker room at halftime and many other never-before-seen places -- as the Trojans captured two Pac-10 championships, two Rose Bowl crowns, three bowl wins and 32 overall victories. But now, more than 10,000 blog entries, countless albums of photos and encyclopedias of memories later, my time at USC has come to an end. While I am excited about a new opportunity, it is also sad to say goodbye to something so close to my heart. USC and its athletic department are unrivaled, and I want to thank all the people who continue to make this university one-of-a-kind, from the most tenured staffer to the most loyal alum to the freshest freshman.
All of our successes over the years would not have happened without you the reader, so I'd like to express my eternal gratitude to you for making this site and this experience so special. Whether you read it daily or hourly and whether you e-mailed in frequently or never, your support of this site and what we were doing in the online sphere made this endeavor such a sensation. And above all, your unwavering support exemplified the power and uniqueness of the Trojan Family.
There's so much gratitude to go around. Thanks go out to the people who worked for USCRipsIt over the years, including photographers Po-He Tseng and Jon SooHoo and student assistants Ricky Cambier and Katie Boggs. This is also an opportune time to thank the behind-the-scenes people in the athletic department who make this football program one of the best in the nation -- and who contributed to this site in their own unique ways: Eric Espinoza, Russ Romano, Chris Grosskopf, Tim Tessalone, Paul Goldberg, Randall Green, Bryan Bailey, David "Pops" Scott, Tino Dominguez and many others.
So in the end, I'd just like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Until our paths cross again, always Fight On.
University Southern California Trojans
Thank you and farewell
March 01, 2010 | USC Ripsit Blog
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