Reaction to marketing [UPDATED]

UPDATED at 7:20 p.m. on Sept. 23.

Today's story on Penn's new Athletic marketing initiatives pointed out that the founders of the Fire Glen Miller blog are working with the Athletic Department to revamp the Red and Blue Crew.

Today, Fire Glen Miller offered its take on the ironic situation. Interestingly, as originally written this morning, the post expressed an uncertain future for the blog. Yet by later in the day, the final paragraph was altered to all-but-announce the disbandment of Fire Glen Miller. Justin Chang wrote in an e-mail that "the paragraph was later changed after careful thought and discussion about whether the blog was actually needed now that we were representatives of Penn Athletics." He also said that there was never any discussion of trying to merge the blog and the Red and Blue Crew.

Full text of the Fire Glen Miller post, as it stands now, after the jump.

Well...There Goes The Whole Secret Thing
It was probably the worst kept secret within the Red and Blue Crew and the offices of the DP, but someone wrote it out anyways. I was really digging the fact that people called me Magnum in person...
Hopefully David's article in the DP today will get more students and alumni informed about what my friends and I have been doing to try to get Penn's student fans relevant again. Regular readers of FGM know that we've focused much more on criticizing Red and Blue Crew affairs from the past year, rather than keep harping on the poor ol' ball coach. Everything we've commented about on the lack of RBC student leadership, our complaints about lack of student support, the confusing policies, and the loss of historical rivalries... we are now in a position to change that as the leadership of the Red and Blue Crew. So, in that sense, I believe "Fire Glen Miller" was a success, not because we canned anyone, but because these efforts turned into an opportunity to put in the changes that we saw fit last year.

From here, I think that the need for this blog is unnecessary. The blog had been inactive for a while, but at this point, there's no need to write about things when we can go out and change them. We've entertained a lot of people and stepped on a lot of toes along the way, but I think now it's time to be more than just a blogger.