PurpleWildcats.com users,

I'm Kevin Trahan, one of the co-founders of Inside Northwestern (www.insidenu.com) and a former PW writer. I started Inside NU along with PW writer Chris Johnson to be an independent, credentialed website bringing you NU football, basketball, recruiting and non-revenue sport coverage from the press box.

We launched a month ago, and since we have such a close relationship with PW and Chris Emma, we worked out a partnership with the site for recruiting information. Now that partnership is going a step further, as Inside NU will be posting some of our articles on the PW forums.

These forums still belong to Purple Wildcats, but the main difference for PW readers is that, with some of our content coming over, you'll now have more articles to discuss. It will also bring over some Inside NU readers and add them to the conversation at Scout.

We'll begin posting articles this week and hopefully add to the what are already some of the best NU boards on the Internet. I look forward to hearing your feedback on our articles, as well.

Kevin Trahan