247Sports.com quickly became the best recruiting service, and now they've become more powerful by purchasing the Scout.com publisher contracts.
https://www.thestreet.com/story/1397...-s-assets.html
247Sports.com quickly became the best recruiting service, and now they've become more powerful by purchasing the Scout.com publisher contracts.
https://www.thestreet.com/story/1397...-s-assets.html
Do we have any representatives on 247?
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I think there was a Here come the Dawgs at one point
I think we had a Scout setup for a short time. JFord and Jason worked hard to get us on the map with Rivals.
247 was started by the guys who started Rivals. They have their own ranking along with industry-wide composite rankings that combined Rivals, Scout, ESPN and 247.
I use '06 for my source on this subject...
His post from two years ago:
I agree with this that 247sports is the most reliable with their own rankings and the composite. They also do the best job of making sure all the schools' commitment lists are up-to-date even for the schools like Tech that don't have a 247 publisher. The 247Sports website is also superior to all of their competitors.
Tech has a Rivals publisher which gives us a boost on Rivals, and ULL has a Scout publisher which gives ULL a boost on Scout. This is why Tech will pretty much always be ranked higher on Rivals, and ULL will pretty much always be ranked higher on Scout. This is also why these recruiting rankings mean very little for G5 schools because if your school doesn't have a publisher with subscribers, there's no incentive for your commitments to be evaluated at a fair and adequate level, if at all. ULM has publishers for both Rivals and Scout, but it doesn't matter much because ULM can't land recruits with any other real FBS offers. ESPN pretty much just focuses on the most powerful programs and top ranked recruits so they are very unreliable for Group of Five conference schools.
Allow me to take this opportunity to restate my thoughts on football recruiting season:
1) High school performance is an unreliable predictor of college performance. Some 5-stars wash out. Some walk-ons become All-Americans. You just never know.
2) The recruiting meat market continues to strike me as a very unseemly business. That grown men hang on every word of a 17yo boy is quite disturbing.
3) You wont know who is actually on the squad until you buy a gameday program.
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Yep. It's not surprising 247Sports put Scout out of business. You could see it a mile away. While Rivals has always been better than Scout, Rivals has also been falling further behind 247Sports. If Rivals/Yahoo doesn't get it together soon, they'll also go the way of Scout. I count 20 FBS programs without a Rivals page link including the Ragin' Leopards. That's really bad. Then their team rankings stop at #100. Rivals still hasn't added our punter, and many G5 commitments don't get added and rated unless their school has a Rivals publisher. It's pretty clear why most people reference the new kid on the block 247Sports when it comes to recruiting rankings now.