💬 Rivals.com has officially entered the 'click bait portal.'

[18Champs]

And here's where they jumped the shark.





Click bait. It's simple and in its purest form.

It needs to be asked what they were thinking in bringing a Colorado guy in to cover Bama. The guy has been throwing rumors and innuendo out since he arrived on the Bama beat.

Here is a clear case of using "rant" to attract views when it was anything but a rant. Notice the way Tidesports covers the same event.

 

[18Champs]

Several years ago Chris worked for the Rivals group. He's calling the headline out here.

Just a minute: How dare Nick Saban make a thoughtful point - Bama Central

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

There is only one thing I hate worse than clickbait, the trend of everything being a video instead of an article. Twenty minutes of some dude reading the article and commenting on things instead of just getting to the point. Rivals will be there soon.

 

[Tidestalker]

He's using his opinion on quotes from Nick Saban. So what? It's the internet - Good luck fixing it.

 

[18Champs]

He's using his opinion on quotes from Nick Saban. So what? It's the internet

It's a downright fabrication. A lie.

And so what? It's a freakin' lie and that's all that needs addressing.

 

[TerryP]

There is only one thing I hate worse than clickbait, the trend of everything being a video instead of an article. Twenty minutes of some dude reading the article and commenting on things instead of just getting to the point. Rivals will be there soon.

| FTBL - FoxSports.com moving in a different direction w/no articles, all video. (UPDATED with viewer numbers.)

I absolutely hate the current trend of everything being video. It is becoming common in every type of reporting. If you link me to a video of someone reporting on something I am very likely to refuse to go to your site ever again. Make your site useful to me and I will cut off my ad blocker for you. Make it unuseful and I will stop going.

I wonder if their numbers are as bad today as they were when the first made the move to all video content?

 

[TerryP]

The question I can't quite come up with an answer for is this.

What would be the reason to move a guy to a managing editor position for a pro-Bama site when his experience is owning/running a Colorado site as well as a high school site for New Mexico athletes?

It's something to consider that we're sitting less than a decade away from the Alabama Rivals site being the #1 sports site on the 'net for subscriptions and traffic amongst fan sites. BOL moved to 247. The Tuscaloosa News moved away entirely. And now it's a site that doesn't seem very conducive to attracting Bama fans?

 

[TUSKtimes]

The question I can't quite come up with an answer for is this.

What would be the reason to move a guy to a managing editor position for a pro-Bama site when his experience is owning/running a Colorado site as well as a high school site for New Mexico athletes?

It's something to consider that we're sitting less than a decade away from the Alabama Rivals site being the #1 sports site on the 'net for subscriptions and traffic amongst fan sites. BOL moved to 247. The Tuscaloosa News moved away entirely. And now it's a site that doesn't seem very conducive to attracting Bama fans?

And rating players that don't exist can't be good either.