Kaut, Roeder to join SicEm365 Staff as basketball and football contributors
SicEm365.com is excited to announce two new additions to its content team as Kendall Kaut and Travis Roeder will officially become part of the team on Dec. 1, 2021. Many Baylor fans have been familiar with their excellent work at OurDailyBears.com as two of the top writers and analysts on the men’s basketball and football beat. Their content will be availble to premium subscribers even more value by adding them to the content team.
SicEm365.com was started in August of 2016 by Brian Ethridge, Colt Barber and Ashley Hodge, all long-term followers and supporters of Baylor Athletics. The trio started with a well-entrenched community of followers from their days of participation on BaylorFans.com, BearScoop.com and BearsTruth.com on the 247 Sports network. In the summer of 2017, the group struck a deal with Jason Stewart, the owner of BaylorFans.com, to acquire and merge BaylorFans.com with SicEm365.com
Jason, Brian, Colt and Ashley are thankful for this opportunity and are excited about the future of SicEm365 and want to grow it to be a vibrant community that enhances the Baylor fan experience and connects good Bears to each other. Some of our best friendships have come from our years of message board participation. None of this is possible without your support, so thank you and we hope we build a site that you are excited to tell your friends about.
Differences Between Premium & Free Boards?
SicEm365 started as a premium board community. For $125/annual or $13/month, you could expect to find detailed analysis and discussion of Baylor sports teams and anything that affects the Baylor community. For those that are paying the subscription price, they expect a troll free experience so the premium boards are moderated in a stricter fashion to keep a constructive balanced tone of strengths and weaknesses inside the programs. Interested in trying this out? We offer a $1 trial for a week. From there you can decide if you would like to continue as a premium subscriber. Our retention rate is over 95%, so we know you will be pleased with the product.
The free boards have been populated by a long-standing community of BaylorFans supporters. We expect civility and respect towards fellow posters but you will find that we allow people to state their opinions with looser moderation standards. Many people view the free forums as entertainment and a place to vent, and we allow the boards to take on their own culture as the community shapes over time, but we do step in and moderate as needed.
Many of our subscribers participate on the free forums and the two premium forums. We have over 3,000 premium or trail subscribers and 8,000 actively viewing or participating on the free boards. We are committed to building community through a multitude of events throughout the year thanks to great support from our sponsors. For all home football games we host a tailgate at our SicEm365 shipping container where fans can gather and watch football games in the shade and enjoy food and drinks supplied by Milo and 3Nations Brewing. We also will host tailgates for basketball, baseball and softball games at that location as well as the spring football game.
Some of our content features are available to both free and premium users and will be posted on both message boards. We do pay a host of contributors to produce quality premium content for fans that want to follow the ins and outs of the teams and recruiting which has turned into a 365 days per year pursuit.
SicEm365 Radio
In May of 2020, David Smoak, Craig Smoak and Paul Catalina made the move from ESPN Central TExas to SicEm365 Radio launching a three hour call-in show Monday-Friday from 3pm-6pm CT. The show can be viewed live or on replay through various channels including the Sicem365 app and the Sicem365 Youtube channel. Most of the segments can be found on the Sicem365 Radio podcast feed. Other Baylor related podcasts are available on the Sicem365 podcast feed. Subscribe to all of the above to stay informed.
SicEm365 Content Team
Colt Barber - Owner/Editor in Chief
Brian Ethridge - Owner/Publisher
Ashley Hodge - Owner/Publisher
Jason Stewart - Vice President/Marketing
Grayson Grundhoefer - Director of Recruiting
Armstrong Simms - Director of Broadcast and Content
Jack Mackenzie - Production/Special Projects
Ashley and Brian have each followed Baylor sports for over 30 years while Colt has been involved with Baylor for as long as he can remember with his dad playing football at Baylor. Jason started BaylorFans.com in 1999 and has been a long-term fan of Baylor Athletics. Grayson Grundhoefer joined us full time in 2018 and focuses on recruiting. Armstrong Simms started with us full time in January of 2021. Jack Mackenzie started in 2021 and will come on full time in early 2022. Jack and Armstrong are the technical expertise behind producing the radio shows and a lot of the media content.
David Smoak - Radio/Contributor
Craig Smoak - Radio/Contributor
Paul Catalina - Radio/Contributor
Jason King - Special Contributor Basketball
JD Pickell - Special Contributor
Drake Toll - Special Contributor
Matthew McBrayer - Media Creation
JJ Joe - Special Contributor Football
Sam Bradshaw - Football Analyst
Ftblbob5 - Football Analyst
Kendall Kaut - Basketball Analyst
Travis Roeder - Football Analyst
Hayden Bumpass, Gray Gillman and Briana Garcia are also contributing while they are students at Baylor. We look forward to the good times and great fellowship that comes from being a part of the Baylor family.
Thanks for taking this journey with us.