Wolverine247 and TheMichiganInsider (Sam Webb) merging

Submitted by ypsituckyboy on

For those who don't know, Wolverine247 and TheMichiganInsider are two big Michigan paysites for recruiting, analysis, etc.

The merger comes as no surprise after the acquisition of Scout (which owned or had a licensing deal with TMI) by 247, and Sam Webb made it official today. So, there will now be a really big team at 247 with Sam Webb, Steve Lorenz, Isaiah Hole, Zach Shaw, Josh Henschke, Josh Newkirk, and DOTMAN.

One would assume there was a fair bit of dual membership between the sites, and that will now disappear. I'm curious what the financial deal looked like here.

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wesq

November 2nd, 2017 at 9:45 AM ^

Well that couldn’t come at a worse time for The Wolverine. I don’t subscribe to either but at this point it seems like an easy choice.

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BlueinOK

November 2nd, 2017 at 11:32 AM ^

I cancelled my Rivals membership after last season. I always liked Tim there, but the rest seem to have less and less connections and just throw stuff at the wall hoping something sticks. Their Insider the Forts were getting really lame. All the info was stuff I already found other places but they made it sound so new. I haven't missed it!

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Magnus

November 2nd, 2017 at 9:52 AM ^

Is it just me, or is that an overload at one particular site? If Lorenz and Webb are both posting "inside info," then maybe some of those other guys become expendable. I don't wish for anyone to lose his or her job, but I kind of doubt whether one paysite can pay all those salaries.

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FauxMo

November 2nd, 2017 at 9:57 AM ^

This is only true if their "inside information" is redundant and the same between the two. But since "inside information" seems to be more of the "Brandon Peters was a huge recruiting miss" variety, they can have two guys throwing random shit out there! 

(Kidding, sort of...) 

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RedGreene

November 2nd, 2017 at 10:02 AM ^

Good thing because scout has sucked lately. The trolls here are bad but nothing compared to the ignorant fools on scout. Information gets here so fast that there's really no reason to pay for it.

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NowTameInThe603

November 2nd, 2017 at 10:07 AM ^

I have done the free trial with 247 before so I have an idea what steves inside info is like. I have never used TMI. Do they provide the same info but present it in a different way? Or is this going to make 247 something I should actually pay for?

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asquared

November 2nd, 2017 at 10:10 AM ^

If you have subscriptions on both sites with months remaining then they are combining them to give you the total months due. (ex: If you have 2 months left on one and 5 months left on the other you will get 7 months.)

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tspoon

November 2nd, 2017 at 12:17 PM ^

Good luck with that if they do.  Webb and Lorenz are the top two recruiting scoop guys around the Michigan program.  Their staffs are there to generate mostly filler content to keep the people who are checking back for fresh material at any given moment placated.  Newkirk is good, but it's a side gig for him.  The rest of the guys are all just guys, IMO.  I don't see any of them developing a credible rival to the 247/scout crew.

 

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