OT - Tom Beaver leaving Scout
Tom had a post on the scout insider board today letting everyone know that his 2 year contract with scout expired today and they are not offering to renew or extend. It'll be interesting to see if scout adds someone to take his place, but in the mean time you may see some former scout posters on other boards. I'm considering a move to rivals myself, but I'll wait to see how it plays out. How good are the insiders on rivals and 247?
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Eh, I'm too addicted and am fully willing to spare with $10 a month for more information and to get it immediately. Tom was the most frequent posters of the scout mods, though, so I'm worried the information flow will go down significantly if Sam doesn't pick up the pace a lot on the board.
Just remember how much time and emotion you invested in the recruitment of, say, Justin Turner, and it will become apparent how much of a waste of time it is to be overly committed to NCAAFB recruiting.
I was HOOKED for a couple years. Started with Ronald Johnson. I invested way too much time following recruiting on the Scout board. Then eventually I just got tired of it. I still follow recruiting, but no where near as intensely. It's just not worth it. Now, I basically wait until signing day to learn more about the players in the class that year.
Although, I do miss some of the benefits of following recruiting, like knowing more about different players in general, even when they don't end up at Michigan.
He was the most frequent but it was at least 95% someone else's story he was posting to the board or comments from his "coach buddy," an unnamed...former.. high school FB... assistant coach...whose opinion GBW readers were supposed to place importance on re: various subjects from recruiting to schematic details.
In addition to breaking no new content whatsoever, he's been known to personally insult people who express contrarion opinions. Personally, I'm not a fan, and I think this is actually addition by subtraction, and the site gets an instant credibility bump by his absence going forward.
April 30th, 2015 at 10:03 PM ^
...kidding, you all aren't that lucky.
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I was on the Scout premium board for many, many years. I liked Tom's information, and more often than not his posts and personality were OK too. However, I also think he had a bit of a "God complex" on the board, and was way, way too quick to insult and dismiss any information that was not his own. Sometimes, the information he would dismiss would be minor or even unequivocally correct, but if it wasn't his (or Sam Webb's, etc.), then it simply could not be correct. After a while, debate was not tolerated. It got very annoying tip-toeing around him, and that was one of the reasons I quit...
They are often caught off guard and if Tim gets a pick right it will be the first time. To their credit they nailed the coaching search.
Small adjustment:
They nailed the coaching search THIS time.
Back during the 2011 coaching search, they were all over the place. So they must have found a better source of information in the intervening four years.
But recruiting-wise, the site has taken a big dip since Josh Helmholdt left a few years ago. I can't stand Tim or Brandon's writing style, fluff pieces, etc.
Completely agree. The source was Jack Harbaugh and a couple of other insiders that I won't reveal here. As for 2011's search and the loss of Josh, you are spot on!
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I think you mean behind the Crystal Ball...
is all the insider info I'll ever need.
I would actually tend to agree with this, primarily for a reason stated upthread - as this blog has grown and as its footprint has expanded, it has become a great secondary source for most of the important items that otherwise come from 247 and Rivals. Typically, within an hour, the information is on this site, and sometimes I think we've even scooped them.
That 12 year old is 16 now.
I'm actually pretty interested to see what Ace Williams does when he is grown up.
You should change the title because he didn't "leave". I'm in agreement with the other dude in this thread about Tom's God complex. The guy was wicked annoying and was a dick a lot of the time.
I don't know if anyone out there ever took a class with Brian MacPherson in the Philosophy department but I have a theory that Tom Beaver is his internet message board alter ego.
The Canadian guy who would chew tobacco during class and was late half the time because of "traffic on the bridge" (i.e. he had too much to drink the night before)? Yeah, I had him.
Hahahahahahahaha.
That is all.
Even before (about 10-15 years ago) I knew about this blog and how quickly it (and the board) could filter through pay-site info and report it for free, I got sick of paying subscription dues to a scout site whose authors misspelled their entries that often. And nobody had worse spelling and grammar habits than Tom Beaver. At least back then.
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April 30th, 2015 at 10:17 PM ^
He had some good Harbaugh coaching tid bits early on in the process I'll admit.
mgoblog > paywall sites
Just about everything useful on those sites is either offered here within a day or two, or is directly implied almost immediately. I had one of those 247 free trials for a while and it's just a lot of rumors and a fractional head start on knowing things
April 30th, 2015 at 10:30 PM ^
goodbye: ace?
It's been a while since an MGoRaid by one of the other sites
Brian should hire him just so we can neg him.
Also: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/meta-beavermonkeys-must-die
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The guy's giant ego and arrogance was stifling, considering the whole point of these blogs is to encourage open discussion.
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Thank you. I just had it stuffed.
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Completely agree. The source was Jack Harbaugh and a couple of other insiders that I won't reveal here. As for 2011's search and the loss of Josh, you are spot on!