There’s been a ton of interest in Rivals Recruits, and I wanted to address some topics around the product.
This service primarily targets FCS and below athletes. Rivals Recruits is a product we have been building for a couple of years, and we see a huge need for it in the market.
For decades, we have focused most of our efforts on elite/blue-chip prospects while underserving the vast majority of high school athletes.
This platform and scouting product give athletes and parents more education on the recruiting process and a better understanding of where they fit in the ecosystem.
• AI is not involved in the scouting evaluations.
• The reports are thorough and take many scouting hours to produce. It is a costly endeavor because of the hours each scout puts into the process.
• The same scouts who evaluate the blue chips create the evaluations.
This doesn’t change the coverage and scouting of the star-rated and blue-chip players. Rivals has done a great job uncovering these elites for decades.
So many players go unnoticed, and Rivals has an enormous platform to tell these stories and address an underserved area of the market.
We are giving honest feedback. Athletes/parents can choose to display or not display their scouting evaluation and grade publicly once it is delivered.
Our scouts take great pride in the quality of their grades and evaluations. Bookmark “On the Radar” to see a growing list of potential college players, outside of the traditional star-rated recruits we've been covering and scouting for 3 decades.
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