Sports Illustrated Article

I was going to cover camps in this next blog, but I decided to piggy back my previous blog on combines by talking a little about the Orlando Nike Combine that took place this past Saturday.

In my previous blog I talked about how combines can really help unknown players get noticed. I discussed the pro's and the con's. I also talked about how much coverage the Nike combines and Scout combines get even though they are free events.

Case in point: Despite the usual coverage received by the Rivals Recruiting Network (and that is HUGE)...I was approached by a reporter for SI.com. What a GREAT opportunity in addition to Rivals to have SI covering an event like the Nike Combine. This further strengthened my belief in the value of a good combine performance for these young athletes.

I want to share with you the article that Andy Staples of SI did about this blog. I think it does a great job of saying exactly what this blog is all about, and it also shows how many major outlets cover these events...and that's GREAT for the kids.

Thank you Andy for helping me spread word, and helping as many kids as we can.

Here is the link to the SI article:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/andy_staples/02/25/recruiting.notebook/index.html

We will cover Camps in the next blog.