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A New Recruiting Network To Challenge Rivals, ESPN, Scout
Ben Koo, who, I can personally attest after lunching with him is the world's greatest Chinese Jew, offers an outstanding preview and analysis of the new 24/7 Sports venture that will set out to compete in the college recruiting space currently occupied by Rivals, ESPN, and Scout. Not to mention...
A Preseason Look At Projected Boston College Bowl Games
As we continue to take a look at how the season could progress, let's really take a jump ahead and look at where some of the sports sites project where the season end. When coming up with this list, I used three big sports sites to comprise this list: Bleacher Report, Scout, and Rival. Neither ESPN...
NCAA Bars Schools From Subscribing to Rivals (Updated)
Jon Infante of the Bylaw Blog reported today that the NCAA has ruled that institutions can no longer subscribe to Rivals.com affiliated sites. The rationale "is that Rivals provides video of nonscholastic competition that is not available to the general public." By that definition, I think the ban...
Welcome to the Club: David Hale Receives Dumb Insult, Gains Blog Cred
Personally, I don’t follow recruiting. It involves commitments of time and resources (for a Rivals or Scout subscription) I simply am not prepared to commit to tracking the college choices of teenage boys. One of the many benefits MaconDawg brings to this site is his ability to write about...
Zook's Chakras out of Alignment
Turns out that Illinois Head Coach Ron Zook ain’t that big of a fan when it comes to recruiting sites. Said Zook via the Arlington Heights (Ill.) Daily Herald, "We're turning the recruiting over to the so-called recruiting gurus," Zook said."Now, all of a sudden, just like you've got basketball...
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