From VHS tapes mailed to coaches to AI-powered scouting platforms, college recruiting has undergone a massive technological transformation. In this episode, we break down how recruiters find players across fragmented databases, how social media personality analysis is changing the game, and who the key innovators were that disrupted an industry still struggling to sync up.

00:00:00 - Introduction and overview of recruiting chaos

00:01:15 - The analog era: VHS tapes, road trips, and regional scouting before 1996

00:03:30 - The rise of recruiting platforms and the fragmentation problem

00:05:45 - How stats are stored across competing databases and why nothing syncs

00:07:30 - Innovators who changed the game: early digital scouting pioneers

00:09:15 - Social media scouting and AI-driven personality profiling

00:11:00 - How recruiters measure character and culture fit through online presence

00:13:00 - What set the disruptors apart from traditional methods

00:14:30 - How you could shake up the recruiting industry today

00:15:30 - Wrap-up and final thoughts

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