Now here’s the longer version.
Let’s be honest: I haven’t brought much new to the table in a while here, have I? Our beat-writing game is as strong as it’s ever been, and I love being able to say that. And we keep finding new voices to make the site interesting. But that only peripherally had to do with me.
Fact is, it’s been a while since I was truly obsessed with this site. From its origin in 2007 through, what, 2012 or 2013, it was an addiction, a labor of love. Maybe I’d get to drifting more toward my full-time SB Nation gig here and there, but something amazing — the move to the SEC, the 2011-12 basketball run, the 2013 football run, etc.