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Difference between Rivals and Scout

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I'd like to know what you guys think. I've always just used rivals for my recruiting information or anytime I want to see something on a recruit. My Granddad in West Virginia prefers Scout. I was looking at Scout with him the other day and it seemed like they put a lot less weight in the talent out of Alabama than Rivals does. I believe Julio is the only five star that they have coming out of the state of Alabama...maybe one more but definately not more than two. I'm curious which has proven to be more accurate in the past and what is the difference between the criteria that each uses to grade recruits?
 
Since we are starting to use acronymns to save time on some of my most used phrases and/or questions, maybe we can add this one to the other thread.

Whats the Difference Between Rivals and Scout?

OR

WTDBRAS?

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Tider@UNA said:
Since we are starting to use acronymns to save time on some of my most used phrases and/or questions, maybe we can add this one to the other thread.

Whats the Difference Between Rivals and Scout?

OR

WTDBRAS?

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Both networks are bad for your brain . I trust BamaMag . BOL - not .
 
I subscribe to both. Rivals seems to do a better job of evaluating. That opinion isnt based on the fact that Rivals tends to rate some of our players higher. Its just something I've realized over the years. No offense to BamaMag, they've got some guys in-the-know on their insider boards. But when it comes to rating talent, Rivals seems to have better people and more resources for it. I like having both because sometimes one will beat the other to the punch. But usually Rivals has more to offer.
 
Features, eye appeal: Rivals

Writers: BamaMag

Ranking system/accuracy: slight edge to Rivals (though Scout may have been right in the recent past with some of our players recent performances)
 
I have said it before and I will say it again. It takes following Scout, Rivals, and every source you can find like different school sites, Tider Insider, Tom Lemming, ESPN, TAKKLE.com, newspapers, TV, etc to get a complete picture. And even then it is hard to keep it all straight and up to date. Things do change fast in recruiting. I have noticed they all make mistakes in their predictions or coverage. The wierd thing is I like Rivals better than Scout as far as recruiting goes, but Bama Mag does a better job covering Alabama sports than BOL does. These are just my opinions.
 
I don't get it!

What are the relationships among Rivals, Scout, Bamamag and BOL? I thought Rivals and Scout were national entities. The above posts seem to imply that they are somehow tied to Alabama interests.
 
What are the relationships among Rivals, Scout, Bamamag and BOL? I thought Rivals and Scout were national entities. The above posts seem to imply that they are somehow tied to Alabama interests.
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BOL is in the Rivals network, BamaMag is in the Scout network.

No doubt in my mind, if I were buying a subscription to one, I'd buy Rivals. Everything is better, except the focus on non-football Alabama athletics.
There's much more baseball, gymnastics, and even basketball news on BamaMag.
I think Kirk McNair is as good of a source as you'll find (with BamaMag), but that's it for me.
 
ncbama said:
I don't get it!

What are the relationships among Rivals, Scout, Bamamag and BOL? I thought Rivals and Scout were national entities. The above posts seem to imply that they are somehow tied to Alabama interests.
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Kirk McNair from BamaMag has been a TitleTown insider for at least 35 years . Andrew Bone of the TitleTown News also works with him . When the networks began , they bought out the most reliable & reputable sources .
 
The complaint against Scout in the past was that Scout didn't rate UA classes as highly as Rivals, or as highly as Alabama fans thought they should be ranked.

Well, if that's the case, time has vindicated Scout in a big way. Alabama is working to fix a talent deficit. So either Rivals dropped the ball to some extent or it's all a crapshoot.

I can tell you from personal experience rating prospects -- we still do it for UA signees on this site each February, but we've seriously dialed back from what it used to be -- it's damn near impossible to do it thoroughly. Obviously, the bigger the service, the more resources they have to devote to it and the more likely they'll be to see a greater number of players.

Still, some will never be seen/analyzed. And there are some evaluators that I've had personal experiences with over the years that I wouldn't trust to tell me if ice was cold.

In the end, remember you're paying for entertainment more than anything else. I've yet to figure out what the actual "final rankings" mean other than to give fans something to crow about in March. They seem to have no carryover to the fall in terms of momentum, and as soon as recruiting cranks back up people forget the rankings of the previous year.
 
One of the things that frustrated me looking at the Scout player rankings wasn't that the University of Alabama's recruits were lower (even though they were) but there seemed to be an overall lack of respect for high school players from the STATE of Alabama. Julio is 3rd in their rankings whereas everybody else has him at worst 2nd. Then there were hardly any guys from the state of Alabama in their top 100...maybe four...and only a couple in their top 50. I never really have looked at Scout much until recently and I probably won't look at it anymore because it seemed like to me that they had a very northern bias in their recruiting rankings. Anyways...did anybody else notice that, or am I just hyper-sensitive to the yankee swine that always try to demean the south? (No offense BamaFanInNY)
 
foley_boy said:
One of the things that frustrated me looking at the Scout player rankings wasn't that the University of Alabama's recruits were lower (even though they were) but there seemed to be an overall lack of respect for high school players from the STATE of Alabama. Julio is 3rd in their rankings whereas everybody else has him at worst 2nd. Then there were hardly any guys from the state of Alabama in their top 100...maybe four...and only a couple in their top 50. I never really have looked at Scout much until recently and I probably won't look at it anymore because it seemed like to me that they had a very northern bias in their recruiting rankings. Anyways...did anybody else notice that, or am I just hyper-sensitive to the yankee swine that always try to demean the south? (No offense BamaFanInNY)
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Born and raised in Gordo, AL. So when you say yankee swine, I know you aint talking about me. :biggrin:
 
JessN said:
In the end, remember you're paying for entertainment more than anything else. I've yet to figure out what the actual "final rankings" mean other than to give fans something to crow about in March. They seem to have no carryover to the fall in terms of momentum, and as soon as recruiting cranks back up people forget the rankings of the previous year.
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Very true. I trust in Nick Saban.
 
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