I love Brandon, love him. The only thing is…. I cringe reading his blog.
As a member of the shoremen football team, I hate reading about our failures,
as any competitive athlete would. My stomach turns reading about some of
these losses, especially the Olmstead Falls one. I truly was looking forward to
his blog hoping it might be a bright spot in otherwise dim media coverage of
our team. Sadly, it wasn’t. I guess we deserve it as a team for how poorly we
have performed this season, but still I hoped he would cover more positive
areas of our games. I can’t blame the kid though; it is much easier to find the
negative aspects to our game rather than the positive ones.
The blog itself is well put
together. After a rough start, Brandon has really picked up his writing. I
particularly enjoyed the last article; he used a lot of media and it really
helped make his article pop (maybe should of put a picture of that huge,
good-looking, center of Avon Lake’s instead of the other pictures). He did make
one mistake in regards the records however; Midview is the second best team in
the state. Other than that his stories were completely accurate form what I can
recall. The template of the blog is a little bland; he should probably make it
something more related to his topic, to make his blog stand out more.
I like the fact that
Brandon does write with emotion. You can tell exactly how he’s feeling after
each article. Being an avid shoremen fan for the past decade it is hard for him
to watch the team this year; comparatively to teams that it seemed winning the
SWC’s were a sure thing in the past. Overall Brandon’s blog is good, not great,
just good. This could be because I’m a little biased toward the shoremen
losing, but whatever. I hope that the past two seasons still do not take away
from Brandon’s passion for shoremen football. 
