Dell’s Column – Jan. 3, 2024

Written by: Dell Jackson on January 3, 2024

Dell’s Column
Jan. 3, 2023

LLhoops.com
The site is off to great start for the year. We are getting on average between 1,500 -2,200 page views a day. Not surprisingly, our main page and score pages are the top pages for hits. Various team pages are still getting traffic.

Standings…under the tab standings one can see the current standings (2023-24). The older standings links are not working currently but will be fixed in the near future.

Re-design…the new look, but same content, is in the works. Our friends at Circle W Sports are checking thru the site for broken links and a new layout. Stay tuned!

Web design- LLhoops customer

Where?
Most of our visitors are using their cells phones to connect. We are checking into the possibility of getting a mobile app to make the cell phone usage a bit more user friendly. Stay tuned 🙂

Writers
With the addition of TJ Eck (@TJEck_TV), we now have 3 media folks (Dell (@llhoops) and Andy (@AndyBrackets)) covering LL games on various nights. Content from the Northeast Beat is provided by Jon k (@LLHoopsNEPbeat) and Philip T. (@Phil_LLHoopsNEP) David Kehler (@david_kehler) is starting to get out to games as he provides wraps from District 1/12 area and some non-PIAA school.

Top 10
TJ Eck wanted to work on this. He plans on updating once a week. It’s difficult to rank teams form different sections, but the post will provide some bulletin board material for some (Do we even use bulletin boards anymore? ) All his rankings are TJ’s and his alone 🙂

Small World
The connections from some of our coaches/players are amazing. Andy Burkholder (@AndyDBurkholder), head coach at American International College, was in contact recently with Dell. Dell was an assistant coach at Elizabethtown College when Andy was playing. Andy graduated in 1997 from Etown College and played for Coach Bob Schlosser. Andy graduated with Chad Slabach, father of AC’s Elisha Slabach, at Cocalico. Andy also informed us that current Solanco Coach, Anthony Hall, preceded him as a graduate assistant at Springfield College.
American International College

Stream me…
LLhoops is back at it this week. We will be covering the Cedar Crest/TWP game on Jan 9th. – Warren Goodling, John Graham, and Bruce Badgley bring you the action. The following week we are planning to cover Columbia/Lancaster Mennonite on Jan 19th. On the 20th, we switch over to the NFHS Network (pay for view) to produce FIVE games at the Mid Penn/LL shootout. Past games can be found on our Youtube page and Streaming links.

Sponsors
Special thanks to our sponsors. We cannot cover the LL without them. This week’s returning sponsor is:

Dan Taylor- Estate Lawyer

We are looking for sponsorship for the LL finals for our live stream of the LL finals (girls and boys) If interested, please contacts us a webmaster@llhoops.com

POG…Special thanks to Spooky Nook Basketball for helping us with T-shirts for Player of the Game. Congrats to past winners!

Jason Johnson POG

Around the LL

Milestones….. interviews with LLhoops staff
Tommy Smith, Cedar Crest , earned victory number 100 last season.
Gene Lambert, Octorara, got number 300 this season.
Danny Walck, Hempfield, earned number 400 this season.

Top 7…updated Dec. 24, 2023

District 3 power points….’Tis the season where coaches, fans and players are checking their power points. Here is the LINK. We will discuss more in our next column.

Mike Grassel, Dallastown interview.