I closed off the self-registration for now so this is gonna be it as far as extending posting rights. If you have someone who you think could be a contributing member, please send me a referral.

A couple of informal thoughts on vision for the board.

We'll always have a limited number of posters. It may grow, but very slowly.

It'll always be open for people to read, regardless if they're registered members or not. Feel free to point people to discussions here if you'd like.

Also, since this is a BGS blogger's forum, some other Irish bloggers are here as well. It was my hope that as we all continue to blog, this place might be a good lab (hence the original name, the BGS Football Lab) where ideas for posts could be hashed out and batted around. Maybe it could even foster some collaboration for future projects.

Lastly, as I said in my invitational emails -- and just to be clear -- this place was never intended to be (and will never strive to be) a replacement for NDN, UHND, IE, Rivals, or any other larger ND-football-related board you might frequent. I am still posting on NDN and and will continue to post there. As I've mentioned to some of you in conversation, I'd like to put a moratorium on all meta-commentary about other message boards here and keep this place football pure, if possible.

Feel free to link to quality football stuff on any of those forums (or anywhere, really), of course.