I've read the blurbs at these sites and they interest me. I'd like to know which of the two are better from people who have belonged to them. Please tell me why you like one or the other. Is the money worth it?

Thanks for input.

Jim

JIM15068 Wrote:I've read the blurbs at these sites and they interest me. I'd like to know which of the two are better from people who have belonged to them. Please tell me why you like one or the other. Is the money worth it?

Thanks for input.

Jim

I have both, for Basketball I find Scout.com/Telep more accurate then Rivals. Football it is the other way around.

Probably a true statement a few weeks ago. The two main boards for Cuse and UConn just migrated to Scout. Basketball coverage has always been better at Scout. Football should be better at Scout from a Big East perspective now. BE fans have suffered under biased and often incorrect analysis in the Rivals system. This switch has to be a positive for Scout in the Big East territory--we'll see.

yeah i noticed after dickerson was announced as a pitt verbal on rivals he dropped from a 5 star to a 4 star. funny.

i sorta check out both and just average them both out. both sites sorta hate each other. its kinda like u got rivals pitt fans and scout pitt fans. its kinda wierd to be honest.

Nomads once again.

Message board politics. :rolleyes:

Suddenly, the brass at Rivals are all touchy feely. I guess that happens when 'X' number of subcribers (along with their $$ walk across the street to the competition.

Murph1 Wrote:Suddenly, the brass at Rivals are all touchy feely. I guess that happens when 'X' number of subcribers (along with their $$ walk across the street to the competition.

Can't tell you how much Rivals lost but Scout went from basically a nothing board to over 1200 registered users in about a week on the Cuse board. Of course, it wasn't a total gain of 1200 since some people were already registered but the board had very little activity. Scout is now the most active Cuse board, then Syracuse.com, then probably Rivals, IMHO.

We'll see if Rivals recovers. I actually would like to see all the Cuse boards fill a niche and survive.

I like Scout the best

I think Scout is ridiculously bad at covering the teams that don't have active sites. Rivals gives it a college try at least (sorry for the pun). For example, SMU doesn't have an active site for either. Late in the football recruiting season, SMU had like 20 commits, of which rivals had the majority (like 18), including articles on many. Scout had them with 0. About the same time we had 13, and Rivals (which is trying to get a site goingfrom the bottom up after repeated failed attempts to buy the killerfrogs site) had most listed. Scout had like 1. They (Scout) do a good job with the active site schools, but reallly don't pay attention to the others, which tells me that their rankings are very biased (even more than the baseline bias these sites are inflicted with).

Killerfrog in the Kitchen Sink has it exactly right. Scout does not care much about providing information to teams that are not in it's network. I believe I have put out 4 or 5 questions to Dave Telep and staff on the message board, and have yet to get an answer to any of them. I like RivalsHoops and believe that Rivals does much better with football recruiting. But, with football, my desire for information is for Florida State University, so I do not know about the supposed Big East bias.

I think each of these sites cost about $9.95 per month. Is it worth the money?

Jim