A Brave New World

How to begin? I suppose the only fitting way is with this:

If you are one of the (very few) people who has loyally followed this blog and read my exceptionally long recaps of pointless mid-December games against D-II schools from Nowhere, Tenn., then I owe you a firm handshake.

If you are one of the 694 Twitter followers (minus approximately 682 spambots) who have endured my often obnoxious, regularly all-caps live-tweeting of said games, then I probably owe you a warm embrace or ten.

And if you are one of the many who has crossed me in my one-man crusade to avenge the name of Matthew F. Carlino — not his real middle initial — then I most likely owe you an apology because I probably said something rude to you.

In all seriousness though, if you've spent any time reading Post-Jimmer, commenting on the posts, or interacting with me on Twitter over the past couple years, thank you. You have made this enterprise not only worthwhile, but downright enjoyable.

Blogs are interesting. You only do them if you really love your topic or if you have a raging ego — or in my case, both. For me, if I was going to spend so much of my free time writing one of these things, I decided the only thing that would make it worth it is if other people actually read my posts and derived some kind of benefit from the effort. Thanks to you all, I feel like I accomplished that in some way, shape, or form here on Post-Jimmer.

Which brings me to the purpose of this post.

Beginning today, Post-Jimmer will be no more. Well, at least not in its current form. I won't be writing on it, and it won't be updated by anyone else. It's been a great ride, but I also feel that I've taken this platform as far as I can. Running a site like this all by yourself while still trying to have a normal life is a tough gig, and I don't always have the time needed to make this site everything I want it to be. Nevertheless, that doesn't mean I'm getting out of the game.

As the result of a very kind invitation, I will be moving over to join the gentleman of Vanquish The Foe, where I will be helping to head up their BYU basketball coverage. I have always been a big fan of VTF and the excellent content they produce, so I am extremely excited to be joining such a talented staff. With the great basketball minds that are already present and the exceptional resources of the SBNation community, I feel confident that we will be able to do some really cool stuff at Vanquish The Foe that anyone who has liked Post-Jimmer will certainly enjoy.

So that's basically it. Post-Jimmer represents a wonderful part of my amateur writing career. I had a ton of fun writing these posts, and I hope you had some fun reading them as well. But now it's time to take the next step — into a "brave new world," as the header to this blog has proudly decreed since its inception. I'd be honored if you would follow me there.

And if not, maybe we can still fight over Matt Carlino on Twitter.