Zachary Kaltz is an outstanding human being
Posted by kj on Monday, June 30th, 2008
The title of this post is my meager way of thanking Mr. Kaltz for supplying the nifty new banner at the top of the blog on a pro bono basis. Hopefully, some future employer/potential date/creepy stalker will Google his name and be suitably impressed by his graphical work.
Thanks a bunch, Zach. The Pantheon of great Spartan guards will now keep watch over this humble blog. (Also, note that it takes just one Spartan blog reader to do the work of a few dozen Wolverine fans!)
I’ve also installed a new theme, the main benefit of which is two sidebars. Hopefully, this will make accessing links and other features a little more convenient. And it allows me to put some ads at the top of the blog without feeling too guilty. Let me know if you find any quirks with the new theme or have any suggestions on additional features you’d like to see (recognizing that it took all the technical savvy I could muster to change the colors in the new theme to green, white, and gray).
I anticipate using the rest of this week to tinker with the site some more before heading out of town for the long holiday weekend. So I don’t think there will be any new content up until next week, when we’ll pick up again with more historical tempo-free stats.
Finally, with the spring recruiting season and the NBA draft now out of the way, blogging may be lighter for the next couple months before we gear up in September and October for the beginning of the 2008-09 basketball season–and maybe squeeze a little football talk in, too.
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witless chumon 01 Jul 2008 at 12:51 am 1I first thought to grumble just a little bit about throwing Drew in there with those guys, but hey why split milimeter long hairs? He was pretty damn good. Think about it, he accomplished as much or more than anyone but the gentleman to his left and the guy all the way to left.
I guess he just kinda irked me at times this last year, when seemed like he was psyching himself out. But it’s pretty b.s. If he drops that buzzer beater in the Big 10 tourney, I doubt I’d have the nagging feeling. Wrong place to talk about nagging feelings, too.
Nice banner.
Moothekowon 01 Jul 2008 at 9:08 am 2Just thought I’d drop a note letting you know I like how the site looks now (and I like the banner too). I’m a long time reader (well - as long as the blog has been anyhoo) who doesn’t post much - but just thought I’d also share I do in general appreciate the work you do here… checking this site is part of my daily morning routine now :-).
kjon 01 Jul 2008 at 9:44 am 3Witless, Neitzel gets a little bump for being my favorite Spartan. And we had to include one post-2000 guard. Ager was the other possibility.
For the record, Neitzel’s career statistical achievements:
Finished 14th in Michigan State history in career scoring (1,534 points), 4th in career assists (582 asts), 3rd in career 3-pointers made (273) and attempted (684) and the school’s career leader in free-throw percentage (.866)
Thanks for the positive feedback, MootheKow.
Spartalyticalon 01 Jul 2008 at 10:42 am 4Great banner and even better new look in general.
Spartalyticalon 01 Jul 2008 at 10:44 am 5The more I look the more I see. I like the three “State” logos watermarked throughout.
kjon 01 Jul 2008 at 12:00 pm 6Now see if you can find the three-dimensional spaceship. Focus your eyes 6 inches behind the computer screen.
DMPon 01 Jul 2008 at 12:49 pm 7Nice job with the banner and layout! Magic leading the charge above everyone else came out very cool. When we run out of things to do, we should start a letter campaign to bring back the cursive “State” on the jerseys.
mblemieuxon 01 Jul 2008 at 1:32 pm 8I suppose Greg Kelser or Shawn Respert (a unanimous first team All-American and Big Ten Player of the Year) could have been included instead of Neitzel. Ager? Really? Respert would have made a nice link between the Skiles years and the Peterson/Cleaves years. Oh, and cool banner.
kjon 01 Jul 2008 at 1:48 pm 9Respert’s there (#24)–admittedly the most ghost-like of the images. Wanted to stick to all guards. Bell and Peterson would be most deserving–but Cleaves already represents that group of players.
Moothekowon 01 Jul 2008 at 2:23 pm 101 other reason for inclusion of Neitzel - he pretty much single-handedly maintained Izzo’s streak of NCAA tournaments. I think he belongs in the banner.
Spartans Weblog » The guys in the new banneron 01 Jul 2008 at 7:33 pm 11[...] was a little discussion in the comments section of the last post as to whether Neitzel belongs up there on the new banner with Magic, Skiles, Smith, Respert, and [...]