For any of you who followed college basketball online in the pre-/early-Twitter era, Whelliston's The Mid-Majority was essential reading and incredibly influential in how we talk about mid-majors today. Particularly noteworthy were his travelogues where he would document his journey attending 80-100 mid-major games in a single season and his concept of The Red Line for classifying who is a mid and who isn't. I think some on this board have met him from his visits to Athens and I believe he created the Last Man contest (trying to go as long as possible without learning who won the Super Bowl) that JSF participated in.

https://www.whelliston.com speaks of him in past tense but I cannot find an obituary anywhere. He published a book as recently as last year, so his passing had to have been recent.

I would really like this to be another weird stunt Kyle pulled. I'm reaching out to people in the old community to see if they know anything. His Patreon had a post as recently as Novermber 30.

I can confirm he is not dead and it is a gag.