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April 13, 2007

Clearing a Couple Tabs

Filed under: Basketball,Honors,Recruiting,Rumors — Chas @ 11:16 am

About a year and a-half ago, Scout.com was bought by Fox Interactive Media. Now it looks like Rivals.com might be absorbed by Yahoo!. Can’t say I’m shocked by this — well maybe a little by the potential buyer. Rivals.com was doing okay with the subscriptions and as a content supplier to various sports media groups, but they needed someone with deeper pockets behind them with Scout.com, CBS/CSTV/MaxPreps.com and ESPN/Scouts, Inc all in very solid financial positions.

I’m not particularly wild about Dick Groat doing color analysis for Pitt basketball, as he seems at least half-a-step behind on things. Still, congrats on getting into the college basketball hall of fame and I did find his Q&A interesting.

Q: How do you think Pitt senior center Aaron Gray will fare at the next level?

A: Knowing the kind of person he is, I think he will fare well. For no other reason than what he doesn’t do well, he will work and improve and make himself better.

Q: What are your thoughts about Bob Huggins coming to West Virginia?

A: He’s notorious. He gets away with it. The guy is a good coach, and he’s had great success. But he will bring anybody in and do any way to bring a recruit in. I just think there’s a better way to do things. It puts pressure on everybody in the Big East.

Heh.





Chas,

Hey what happened to your site yesterday…it was down for most of the day?

Comment by Marco 04.13.07 @ 12:12 pm

Hey Groat is a two sport legend. He can take over as head coach if he wants to, in my opinion. When you listen to Dick & Bill it’s like being with two fans who have seen it all, and been there for every Pitt game, good and bad, since some of us were born. When the Panthers win these days sometimes I feel happy for Dick & Bill.

That Q&A was great, and here’s a story from a couple years ago about Groat’s basketball career at Duke, written by the statistician in those years: link to theacc.com

Comment by bill 04.13.07 @ 11:40 pm

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