Opinion Archive

Well Crestview, two weeks into trying to provide coverage of your teams, I’m quickly getting the feeling that you care about your sports a lot.

Several coaches have expressed how much they enjoy the fact that we now run the Crestview News Bulletin and they are excited about the potential it has.

We sometimes forget that it’s 2022, not 1992, and that the world of college athletics, especially the football landscape, has changed in ways we could have never imagined a few decades ago.

If only Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard understood that.

I have a lot to learn about Crestview. I have been listening to your meetings online and I know that you are a vibrant and growing community that has a lot of the same issues as other cities, but you also have a personality that uniquely your own.

The good news is that we have an outstanding editor here, Wendy Victora Rudman, who is very familiar with you and her face lights up every time I say Crestview.

I’ve seen my share of Navarre athletic events that involve a game or a match or a meet against Crestview, but rarely is anyone there to cover the Bulldogs in action.

In some ways it is a sign of the times in journalism. The dedication to covering events and covering them well just isn’t the same in the 21st century.