TigerRag is run by Sonny. Tigerbait is run by Mike S. I much prefer Sonny over Mike, because Sonny actually acts like he cares & he realizes that people are paying him for the info. He's not doing community service. Both have good sources for LSU info, but I trust Sonny's more. As for rankings, Rivals is better, but that info is free so that isn't important. Rivals also has the better national recruiting coverage, a more active & informed message board, and a much more attractive/easy to use webpage. It depends on what you're looking for.
Well Tigerbait is just an offshoot of Rivals proper. Each school has their own website where you can get news on just your team, instead of having to mill through tons of news stories. And you can post to message boards and find out all kind of useful and useless stuff. When you pay for rivals.com, you get TigerBait.com included, unless you stupidly select another school.
TigerRag (scout) is better for LSU info. Sonny takes care to answer questions. Scarborough got his ass handed to him last year by Sonny though he seems to be doing a better job then last year. Rivals is a better source and website on a national level though.
Give em some time. They have 4 schools recently signed on to the program and over a dozen with applications pending. They've made an initial $4M+ investment in a recruiting database and it will only get better.
You're associated with the USC site that left rivals to join the ESPN network right? It doesn't matter how much $$$ they sink into it; it will suck. Their main website is a design nightmare. There are better websites out there that are better at covering various sports then the ESPN website (except the NFL coverage they have which I think is outstanding). The biggest reason there website is the most popular sports portal is due to the name brand. In the type of sites they are getting into, scout is the name brand. This venture is destined to go the way of other ESPN webventures like ESPN Mobile, Page 3, etc.
ESPN is like Walmart and Microsoft, people are always complaining about them but in the end they win because they have a massive user base and more resources. If you think ESPN will fail in their recruiting sites, you are just practicing some wishful thinking...they can offer more to recruits than rivals and scout combined (tv time and publicity).
