One of the final topics on today’s Coffee and Football dealt with a question about more resources being spent on recruiting in say for example, Georgia. Great topic and great respondences by the panel. Does UT or any college use or employ ‘stringers’? The term comes from journalism and it is essentially a free-lance writer being used to write and have articles published periodically. MLB use to use scouts/stringers to comb the countryside looking for talent. My favorite story deals with Tom Greenwade scouting Mickey Mantle for two years and signing him on his HS graduation day. 
 

Anyway, is it legal for a college to use this type of ‘scout’ in small rural towns to supplement our own staff? And not just for football but for baseball, basketball, tennis, T&F, and all other sports? Or has the internet, Hudl, 7 on 7, and summer leagues made that type of ‘scouting’ obsolete? 

2 hours ago, Robert Gilbert said:

One of the final topics on today’s Coffee and Football dealt with a question about more resources being spent on recruiting in say for example, Georgia. Great topic and great respondences by the panel. Does UT or any college use or employ ‘stringers’? The term comes from journalism and it is essentially a free-lance writer being used to write and have articles published periodically. MLB use to use scouts/stringers to comb the countryside looking for talent. My favorite story deals with Tom Greenwade scouting Mickey Mantle for two years and signing him on his HS graduation day. 
 

Anyway, is it legal for a college to use this type of ‘scout’ in small rural towns to supplement our own staff? And not just for football but for baseball, basketball, tennis, T&F, and all other sports? Or has the internet, Hudl, 7 on 7, and summer leagues made that type of ‘scouting’ obsolete? 

It's illegal.

The staff now must be internal. That being said, they could hire a staffer who focuses on a particular state or area.

19 minutes ago, Bobby Burton said:

It's illegal.

The staff now must be internal. That being said, they could hire a staffer who focuses on a particular state or area.

Great. Thanks for clearing that up for me.