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Which recruiting and scouting services does Washington subscribe to?
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Relationships, coaches say, are the foundation of any successful recruitment. Coaches have to relate to the high school prospects they’re pursuing and convince those prospects why their school is the right fit, and no scouting service or database can eliminate the time and energy required to develop those bonds.
But those services and databases can save time and energy during the identification and evaluation phases, and Washington, like many college programs, subscribes to several platforms to aid and augment its long-established recruiting processes.
In fact, a recent records request turned up five recruiting and scouting-related services the Huskies currently pay for. Not all are intended to help UW identify prospects it should recruit. In fact, one of them — an annual subscription to Pro Football Focus’ play data — has basically nothing to do with recruiting. But each subscription sheds some light on the kind of services and data that UW deems valuable in its search for the right prospects, and in its quest to streamline scouting and game-planning.
Hudl: Recruit.co
The Hudl brand has become omnipresent in college football; if you’ve watched any recruit highlight videos in the past five years, you almost certainly did so on Hudl. But the company provides far more than a platform for high school prospects to upload their personal highlights.
Their most valuable service for college football programs is Recruit.co. UW pays $45,000 plus tax for the national package, though there are regional packages available for a lower price. Recruit.co provides clients access to Hudl’s database of full-game, 11-on-11 video from nearly 99 percent of varsity high school football games nationwide. Full-game video is valuable to college recruiters for obvious reasons: Any top-level prospect can put together a flashy highlight package, but coaches want to see how a player holds up throughout an entire game, or how he handles various assignments that might not include him touching the ball or making a big hit on a ball carrier.
3 Step Sports: the Underclassmen Report
Billed as “the most extensive college recruiting database in the country,” the Underclassman Report — produced by the same folks who help power ESPN’s recruiting coverage and the Under Armour All-America Game, among other ventures — provides a searchable database of 3,000-plus junior Power 5 prospect profiles, 3,000-plus sophomore FBS prospect profiles, 500-plus profiles for high school freshmen and 50-plus profiles for international prospects, according to materials furnished by UW.
The database includes verified measurables and testing times, camp and event on-site evaluations, game-tape evaluations, college-level projections and “comprehensive player intel and contact info.”
Bluechip Athletic Solutions: Recruiting Radar
Ricky Hleap, the company’s president and founder, is straightforward about what Recruiting Radar is and isn’t.
“We’re not in any way a scouting or recruiting service,” he said. “We’re the technology on the back end.”
Indeed, Hleap says, BAS’ Recruiting Radar product does not assist with the identification of potential recruits — this isn’t a prospect database like the Underclassman Report. It is instead a recruiting CRM software that allows coaching staffs to consolidate their evaluation and recruiting communication processes and manage their recruiting boards within one dynamic platform.
Pro Football Focus: Play package data
The bio for the PFF College Twitter account touts that PFF — the growing company that grades every single player on every single play of every single NFL and FBS game — is a “supplier of data to 62 NCAA FBS teams.”
Washington is now one of them.
This appears to be a relatively new purchase for the Huskies, as they signed an agreement with PFF effective March 19, 2019, with the contract running through June 2020. For a fee of $25,000, UW now has access to what PFF calls its “play data package.” It’s not a recruiting service, but rather a scouting tool designed to give clients an edge when game-planning during the season.
Tracking Football
The Athletic already has written a few stories about Tracking Football — including this piece I wrote from a UW angle in May — so I’ll just remind you of the basics. Founded in 2015, Tracking Football is a start-up that helps college football programs evaluate recruits by assigning prospects a Player Athletic Index (PAI) score on a five-point scale, based on a proprietary formula and a prospect’s height, weight, position and high-school track and field scores.
For an annual fee of $9,995 — that’s the company’s “advanced package” — UW gains access to Tracking Football’s entire database of 30,000-plus current Division-I players, plus its database of high-school seniors, juniors and sophomores. That gives coaches and recruiting staff the ability to compare the athletic ability of current recruits to that of recruits from the past — and to see where a certain recruit might rank among other players at his position nationally or within the Pac-12.
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Relationships, coaches say, are the foundation of any successful recruitment. Coaches have to relate to the high school prospects they’re pursuing and convince those prospects why their school is the right fit, and no scouting service or database can eliminate the time and energy required to develop those bonds.
But those services and databases can save time and energy during the identification and evaluation phases, and Washington, like many college programs, subscribes to several platforms to aid and augment its long-established recruiting processes.
In fact, a recent records request turned up five recruiting and scouting-related services the Huskies currently pay for. Not all are intended to help UW identify prospects it should recruit. In fact, one of them — an annual subscription to Pro Football Focus’ play data — has basically nothing to do with recruiting. But each subscription sheds some light on the kind of services and data that UW deems valuable in its search for the right prospects, and in its quest to streamline scouting and game-planning.
Hudl: Recruit.co
The Hudl brand has become omnipresent in college football; if you’ve watched any recruit highlight videos in the past five years, you almost certainly did so on Hudl. But the company provides far more than a platform for high school prospects to upload their personal highlights.
Their most valuable service for college football programs is Recruit.co. UW pays $45,000 plus tax for the national package, though there are regional packages available for a lower price. Recruit.co provides clients access to Hudl’s database of full-game, 11-on-11 video from nearly 99 percent of varsity high school football games nationwide. Full-game video is valuable to college recruiters for obvious reasons: Any top-level prospect can put together a flashy highlight package, but coaches want to see how a player holds up throughout an entire game, or how he handles various assignments that might not include him touching the ball or making a big hit on a ball carrier.
3 Step Sports: the Underclassmen Report
Billed as “the most extensive college recruiting database in the country,” the Underclassman Report — produced by the same folks who help power ESPN’s recruiting coverage and the Under Armour All-America Game, among other ventures — provides a searchable database of 3,000-plus junior Power 5 prospect profiles, 3,000-plus sophomore FBS prospect profiles, 500-plus profiles for high school freshmen and 50-plus profiles for international prospects, according to materials furnished by UW.
The database includes verified measurables and testing times, camp and event on-site evaluations, game-tape evaluations, college-level projections and “comprehensive player intel and contact info.”
Bluechip Athletic Solutions: Recruiting Radar
Ricky Hleap, the company’s president and founder, is straightforward about what Recruiting Radar is and isn’t.
“We’re not in any way a scouting or recruiting service,” he said. “We’re the technology on the back end.”
Indeed, Hleap says, BAS’ Recruiting Radar product does not assist with the identification of potential recruits — this isn’t a prospect database like the Underclassman Report. It is instead a recruiting CRM software that allows coaching staffs to consolidate their evaluation and recruiting communication processes and manage their recruiting boards within one dynamic platform.
Pro Football Focus: Play package data
The bio for the PFF College Twitter account touts that PFF — the growing company that grades every single player on every single play of every single NFL and FBS game — is a “supplier of data to 62 NCAA FBS teams.”
Washington is now one of them.
This appears to be a relatively new purchase for the Huskies, as they signed an agreement with PFF effective March 19, 2019, with the contract running through June 2020. For a fee of $25,000, UW now has access to what PFF calls its “play data package.” It’s not a recruiting service, but rather a scouting tool designed to give clients an edge when game-planning during the season.
Tracking Football
The Athletic already has written a few stories about Tracking Football — including this piece I wrote from a UW angle in May — so I’ll just remind you of the basics. Founded in 2015, Tracking Football is a start-up that helps college football programs evaluate recruits by assigning prospects a Player Athletic Index (PAI) score on a five-point scale, based on a proprietary formula and a prospect’s height, weight, position and high-school track and field scores.
For an annual fee of $9,995 — that’s the company’s “advanced package” — UW gains access to Tracking Football’s entire database of 30,000-plus current Division-I players, plus its database of high-school seniors, juniors and sophomores. That gives coaches and recruiting staff the ability to compare the athletic ability of current recruits to that of recruits from the past — and to see where a certain recruit might rank among other players at his position nationally or within the Pac-12.
@Swaye 's WigWam:
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