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[tski60]

Why dont the Eagles have a site on Scout.com? Is that because they are FCS vs FBS and there isnt enough funds and/or interest to warrant a site?

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

Why dont the Eagles have a site on Scout.com? Is that because they are FCS vs FBS and there isnt enough funds and/or interest to warrant a site?

Most likely.

 

[talon38]

I've been an avid scout.com parent for the last 7-8 years, but from what I've seen, it's D1 schools only. I don't think you will find any of the Big Sky Schools on scout, correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Obzerver]

talon, as you know EWU is a D1 school, if you mean we are FCS in Football opposed to FBS scout has sites for teams like Gonzaga who has no Football and teams like Grand Valley State(whose Football team is not D1) and Illinois State (whose Football team is FCS) so it covers a variety of schools. Probably like SE said lack of interest/funds ...

 

[Dozy]

I've worked as a photographer for Scout.com on occasion and I'm good friends with a couple of their analysts (going to a bachelor party for one of them this weekend even though I'm really too old to do so) so I have a little knowledge of how Scout does this...

Usually, school-specific sites are started by individuals that aren't related to Scout. When the site shows enough user traffic, Scout will "lock" them up, so to speak. Typically, it's a renewable contract with the orginal owners still having ownership but becoming Scout employees. A school doesn't have to be FBS to have a Scout website. Scout covers basketball, football, baseball, etc., all the way from high school to the pros. If your site looks like it will make money, then Scout is interested. If your site ends up sucking, they'll look to hook up with a competing site of the same school/team.

Scout also owns many of the sites as well but that's not true of all of them (Dawgman.com, for example).

Make sense?