NCAA classifies Rivals.com as a recruiting service

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http://eye-on-recruiting.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/26895818/28365572

If a recruiting or scouting service, such as Rivals.com, provides nonscholastic video that is not available for free to the general public, then an institution may not subscribe to the service per Bylaw 13.14.3. All recruiting/scouting services are held to the same legislated standard and we consider Rivals.com to be a recruiting/scouting service.

The league coaches were instructed to immediately cancel any subscriptions to Rivals.com and to report a secondary recruiting violation if they were or ever have been subscribed (paid or complimentary).
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Interesting... so coaches can't subscribe to the service unless it is free and open to the public? First, I'm surprised it wasn't a "recruiting service" before. And second, I wonder how many coaches will be reporting secondary violations in the coming weeks?
 

At Last

Finally the NCAA is cracking down!
 

The funniest part is that people actually pay money to belong to GophersIllustrated. $10 a month to get the hot recruiting news about high school children 10 minutes before the rest of us get it for free on GopherHole!
 


One would think so. I think Rivals is the center in this story because it was the example used, but Scout and ESPN "provide nonscholastic video that is not available for free to the general public" as well.
 



Gopher07 said:
One would think so. I think Rivals is the center in this story because it was the example used, but Scout and ESPN "provide nonscholastic video that is not available for free to the general public" as well.
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Most of these kids just put it on youtube anyway. It isn't hard to find video on kids.

The NCAA needs to hire a PR firm (or just start making decisions without their heads up their asses). They look more useless every day.
 

Gopher07 said:
One would think so. I think Rivals is the center in this story because it was the example used, but Scout and ESPN "provide nonscholastic video that is not available for free to the general public" as well.
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Exactly. ESPN Insider costs money. That stupid bureaucracy
 

All this does is change their business model. They won't make their money from monthly fees. They'll probably do ads. Unless they can't make money, they'll just roll with the punches.
 



Ski U Master said:
The funniest part is that people actually pay money to belong to GophersIllustrated. $10 a month to get the hot recruiting news about high school children 10 minutes before the rest of us get it for free on GopherHole!
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Kyle Kessel always had the best recruiting info! Oddly, he usually reported shortly after GI reported things on their premium content board...

if they only knew it was Gopher Lady all along, passing the info to be posted by Kyle.
 


Ski U Master said:
The funniest part is that people actually pay money to belong to GophersIllustrated. $10 a month to get the hot recruiting news about high school children 10 minutes before the rest of us get it for free on GopherHole!
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And here we go...
 

mattw1067 said:
It sounds like they just need to make their videos scholastic... maybe add a fun history fact at the end of every video? :D
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And a short clip of "The Three Stooges" at the beginning of each video.
 



MinnySunDevil said:
All this does is change their business model. They won't make their money from monthly fees. They'll probably do ads. Unless they can't make money, they'll just roll with the punches.
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This won't change the Rivals biz model, I don't think. Rivals doesn't make their money off of the coaches who may or may not subscribe. They make it off the thousands of fans who pay $10/month to post on message boards, track recruiting, and watch videos. And, they already sell advertising banners on the site, so they are double dipping now.

I think most of the college coaches who may have watched Rivals videos were getting a comp password anyway. So, it isn't a great deal of lost revenue for Rivals, I would guess.

The only thing this does, is tell coaches they cannot subscribe. Fans will still be lining up by the thousands with their credit card numbers to see what college the next 18-year old phenom is going to attend.
 


I miss the old Rivals. The Rivals that sponsored the Hula Bowl and paid for my trip to Maui. The Rivals that went out of business shortly after that wild weekend in January 2001.

:cool02::cool02:
 

Or Rivals could just make their non-HS game video available to the general public for free. People don't subscribe for the combine videos.

It was time to create some distance between the coaching staffs and the team publishers. I think they were violating the spirit of the NCAA rules regarding coaches commenting on recruits that haven't signed an LOI yet. While each team publisher is a member of the media, some were/are less than neutral in their coverage of certain recruitments.
 

Then you have the old way.

Tom Lemming Report for about 65.00 a year. Monthly news letters and one July recap catalog on all the players by State and one Top 50 recruits by school at the end of the recruiting cycle. I wonder if he is still holding his own with Rivals and Scout of the industry?
 

Lemming had a weekly show on CSTV, not sure if its still on. I seem to remember him doing some work with ESPN too
 

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