Another new beginning

A little over three years ago, I started The BBC with no real goals (aside from the obvious “I wanna write about the Buckeyes” stance).  But on the way to apathy, a funny thing happened….readers paid attention and the site grew.

With that, The BBC was no longer a hobby.  It was a passion, and it started to show.  Advertisers started to show up, and the traffic we saw made it necessary to add an actual staff to accommodate the further growth.

I’ve said it before….this site has become more than I ever dreamed it would.  But it keeps getting bigger and better.  That pattern continues today.

As of January 1st, The Buckeye Battle Cry is the official Ohio State blog of the SB Nation network.

We will still be found at this URL, but the site design and the servers will all be new and shiny.  Jim, MaliBuckeye, Eric and myself will be doing the same thing we’ve been doing all along, but we will now be doing it under the SBN umbrella.  We couldn’t be happier about the move, and we hope you’ll join us for the ride as we go through our next growth spurt.

For those of you lamenting the disappearance of SBN’s previous Ohio State blog, “We Will Always Have Tempe”, we promise to uphold the standards set forth by our most excellent predecessor.  Also, we have invited Sam from WWAHT to bring his writing skills to tBBC whenever he wants.  We hope he will contribute and make our blog a better place (when he’s not making money at his grownup job).

All of us at tBBC know that this next move would never have happened without you….the loyal readers, the people who comment and send us encouragement daily, the fans who flooded our live chats with thousands of comments.  This is happening because you made this website better.  Keep it up.

….and a special thanks to the ones who force us to do a good job, just to keep up with you.  Jason, Vico, Jim, Keith, (the entire staff at MotSaG, can’t believe I left them out), too many names to mention…you guys know who you are.  You’re the best in the biz and because of you, we all are rewarded daily.

Go Buckeyes!

UPDATE – Yes, we understand the significance of New Year’s Day.  If the timeline with SBN works out like we’ve planned, our first post on the newly-designed site will be the Buckeye Nation Live Chat for the Rose Bowl.  We expect you to be there for that!