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[Kuiper]

This story on Mount Union football misspells Larry Kehres' name, as well as the name of the Mount Union alumnus who most recently coached a Super Bowl champ.

https://www.flofootball.com/articles/14451873-mount-union-football-has-what-it-takes-to-win-now-it-just-wants-the-title

Here's a story from FloCollege on UW-Plattesville Football.  Did it do any better?

[y_jack_lok]

This story on Mount Union football misspells Larry Kehres' name, as well as the name of the Mount Union alumnus who most recently coached a Super Bowl champ.

https://www.flofootball.com/articles/14451873-mount-union-football-has-what-it-takes-to-win-now-it-just-wants-the-title

Here's a story from FloCollege on UW-Plattesville Football.  Did it do any better?

For people like me, who know virtually nothing about UW-P football, that serves as a basic introduction. I do hope it's actually accurate. For a knowledgeable fan, I'm sure it falls way short.

[maripp2002]

or people like me, who know virtually nothing about UW-P football

Well, for a starter they got the name of the school wrong, it's Platteville (with no s),in the title, but other than that, not terrible. The writing is...not great, but nothing a little human editing couldn't fix up.  

[ziggy]

This story on Mount Union football misspells Larry Kehres' name, as well as the name of the Mount Union alumnus who most recently coached a Super Bowl champ.

https://www.flofootball.com/articles/14451873-mount-union-football-has-what-it-takes-to-win-now-it-just-wants-the-title

Here's a story from FloCollege on UW-Plattesville Football.  Did it do any better?

Hold on, hold on, hold on...
The WIAC is not a FloSports conference so this seems...weird. Especially considering the "Subscribe To Watch WIAC Football In 2025" link.

[IC798891]

The pertinent question:

What original reporting is there?

There's zero interviews. The prose is just a regurgitation of the team's 2024 stat page. As for the rest

UW-P Coaching Staff
2025 roster
2025 schedule
2024 results
Head coach bio

It all exists on the team's page already. There's absolutely nothing that isn't already produced elsewhere, first.

[Kuiper]

This story on Mount Union football misspells Larry Kehres' name, as well as the name of the Mount Union alumnus who most recently coached a Super Bowl champ.

https://www.flofootball.com/articles/14451873-mount-union-football-has-what-it-takes-to-win-now-it-just-wants-the-title

Here's a story from FloCollege on UW-Plattesville Football.  Did it do any better?

Hold on, hold on, hold on...
The WIAC is not a FloSports conference so this seems...weird. Especially considering the "Subscribe To Watch WIAC Football In 2025" link.

I didn't even realize that when I posted it, but that is very interesting and potentially revealing.  I thought maybe UW-Platteville is playing on Flo this season in a non-conference game where the host opponent is part of a Flo conference, but that doesn't appear to be the case from the 2025 schedule.  Plus, it wouldn't explain the "Subscribe to Watch WIAC Football" part.

[WUPHF]

or people like me, who know virtually nothing about UW-P football

Well, for a starter they got the name of the school wrong, it's Platteville (with no s),in the title, but other than that, not terrible. The writing is...not great, but nothing a little human editing couldn't fix up. 

The name has been fixed.  I would not be surprised if Flo Sports is watching the thread as the d3boards do show in the search engines.

[y_jack_lok]

^^^ Can you elaborate on: "I would not be surprised if Flo Sports is watching the thread as the d3boards do show up in the search engine."

[Flying Dutch Fan]

^^^ Can you elaborate on: "I would not be surprised if Flo Sports is watching the thread as the d3boards do show up in the search engine."

Simply means if you Google something like Flo Sports Discussion Forum, this thread shows up.

As I was playing around Googling I did find that I can put any conference along with Flo Sports and get Flo Sports results.  I did Flo Sports MIAA and you get a page with a schedule of events versus Flo Sports schools for MIAA teams.  Same happens for any other league I try (provided they have games vs Flo Schools

[Ron Boerger]

Heh, if Flo $port$ is watching this thread they probably will triple my cost to sign up if I'm ever forced to do so.

[Gregory Sager]

Heh, if Flo $port$ is watching this thread they probably will triple my cost to sign up if I'm ever forced to do so.

Seeing as how I referred to FloSports on X as "D3 livestream Covid," they'll probably charge me $1,000 per game if I ever try to sign up.

[jknezek]

In lieu of my typical donation to W&L athletics I sent back a nice note telling them to take it out of the money Flo is paying them. I'm suddenly more interested in how my high school teams are doing, and way less interested in D3. Next weekend I'm supposed to drive over toward Atlanta to see the W&L men's soccer team play a couple games. Normally I'd be pretty excited, but I'm just struggling to get up the motivation.

I'd like to go support the team, but if that's all I'm going to see this fall, since I absolutely refuse to pay for nothing more than a gatekeeper, it's a hard sell.

[y_jack_lok]

In lieu of my typical donation to W&L athletics I sent back a nice note telling them to take it out of the money Flo is paying them. I'm suddenly more interested in how my high school teams are doing, and way less interested in D3. Next weekend I'm supposed to drive over toward Atlanta to see the W&L men's soccer team play a couple games. Normally I'd be pretty excited, but I'm just struggling to get up the motivation.

I'd like to go support the team, but if that's all I'm going to see this fall, since I absolutely refuse to pay for nothing more than a gatekeeper, it's a hard sell.

Wow. That's pretty hard core. I kind of struggle with knowing how some of the schools feel about the Flo thing, so I'm trying to give RMC the benefit of the doubt and assume they would just as soon have stuck with the status quo, but had no choice except to go along with what the ODAC was doing. Maybe I'm wrong. But I watch so much of RMC sports that I chose to subscribe for one year, then decide. But if I were mainly a football only fan, like you, (didn't realize you were into soccer, too) I surely wouldn't have subscribed.

[WUPHF]

I know my complaint is getting increasingly boring, but credit where credit is due: Flo Sports does have more content on the FloCollege.com including two stories about UAA soccer.  Two stories that may as well have been written using AI.

A reminder of how spoiled we are in Division III to have grassroots content creators who are doing it for the love of the game.

[y_jack_lok]

^^^ Not getting increasingly boring. I think the only way they might improve is to keep calling it out and pointing out the generic nature and lack of creativity of what they are doing. At this moment there are two headlines on the FloCollege home page about Shenandoah football, but they both link to the same article which, like you have observed, is probably written by AI even though it is credited with the byline of someone named Lindsey Plotkin -- the same person who "wrote" an article about a different D3 football program (can't remember which one). As we all know, the best sources for this kind of information are each individual school's athletic department websites.

Another question to ask is how long are articles even available on the FloCollege website. I can  find nothing about UAA soccer.