{"id":1128,"date":"2010-09-02T04:11:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T10:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2010-09-02T04:11:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T10:11:47","slug":"bob-rigney-honored-for-pioneering-prep-scouting-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/bob-rigney-honored-for-pioneering-prep-scouting-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Rigney Honored for Pioneering Prep Scouting Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

30\u00a0Years and Counting, NSR Continues Founder’s Legacy\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

NSR<\/strong>\u2019s 30-year anniversary of helping high school student-athletes attract the attention, receive evaluations and get recruited by college coaches starts this month as we chronicle the extraordinary legacy created in 1980 by founder Bob Rigney<\/strong> (pictured) and carried on today by the Rigney family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Bob Rigney's The Scouting Report was the first of its kind in America.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dubbed \u201cThe Father of High School Scouting Services,\u201d Mr. Rigney\u2019s original concept is no longer a cottage industry, but instead has become a multi-million dollar viable force in high school and college sports.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr. Rigney’s decision to promote his eldest son, Curtis, to college coaches by putting together a profile sheet and then sending it to\u00a0college coaches was really nothing new.\u00a0 To get their children promoted beyond word of mouth to college coaches, distributing profiles was a widely used method by parents\u00a0in the day.\u00a0 But, it’s what Bob did with the\u00a0concept which uniquely qualifies him as someone who in essence changed how high school scouting\u00a0and recruiting operated.\u00a0\u00a0 Wanting to duplicate the tremendous response Curtis received, other parents in the area asked Bob to promote their sons to colleges, too.\u00a0 Bob saw a need and the potential for a business.\u00a0 He would scout, interview and enroll prospects for a fee, and then\u00a0promote those prospects to college coaches, also for a fee, in\u00a0what would be called, The Scouting Report<\/strong>.\u00a0 Bob was\u00a0well positioned to start up this business because of three key factors:\u00a0 1) He already owned a printing business, so his start up and operating costs would be minimal; 2) He\u00a0already had\u00a0extensive experience in coaching and professional scouting; 3) He\u00a0was an experienced salesman.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Scouting Report<\/strong> was\u00a0established and the rest, as they say,\u00a0is history.\u00a0 “When I saw the tremendous response that Curtis got from colleges and the tremendous desire that other parents had for doing the same thing for their sons, it didn\u2019t take long for my entrepreneurial spirit to kick in,” Bob said in a recent interview.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today, the Rigney family continues Bob\u2019s extraordinary legacy.\u00a0 Son Rusty is the company\u2019s president while daughter Peggy serves as the firm\u2019s chief financial officer.\u00a0 The company has come a long way from the family putting together the reports and mailing them to coaches.\u00a0 And, as the company grew into a nationally known entity, Bob re-named\u00a0it\u00a0National Scouting Report<\/strong> to reflect its well-deserved stature among the nation’s college coaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As computers evolved and\u00a0use of the Internet became prevalent, Bob\u00a0saw that the\u00a0future\u00a0of recruiting would be tied to this new technology.\u00a0 He shifted the company’s focus to representing and promoting\u00a0high school prospects directly to college coaches via the Web.\u00a0 As technology advancements\u00a0surfaced and became available, NSR<\/strong>\u00a0stayed at the cutting edge and today continues to reinvent how prospect information is delivered to college coaches.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

NSR<\/strong> now has modern digs in the Birmingham suburb of Alabaster where a home office staff does everything from A to Z.\u00a0 A fully high-tech organization with four in-house video editors, Web site designers, college coach liaisons, customer service reps, along with marketing, IT and social media departments, National Scouting Report<\/strong> is the premier high school scouting and college recruiting organization in the world.\u00a0 Field offices across America and in several foreign countries are\u00a0owned by licensees who, along with their area scouts, cover every sport played in colleges across the country.\u00a0 In NSR<\/strong>‘s lifetime, the company has helped to place thousands upon thousands of prep prospects with college athletic programs.<\/p>\n

NSR<\/strong>\u2019s strategy is unlike any scouting agency in the world in that professionally trained NSR<\/strong> licensees and area scouts scour the high school and travel or club landscape in search of prospects with the talent, desire, character and grades which uniquely qualify them to become legitimate college recruits.\u00a0 Our reputation among college coaches everywhere was founded on the promise that we would only enroll and promote student-athletes who had all the qualities necessary to participate at the next level.\u00a0 That firm commitment has never wavered.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

From its outset NSR<\/strong>\u00a0has avoided the primary business strategy and practices most other high school scouting organizations operate under which is to fill cubicles with telemarketers,\u00a0typically called counselors or advisors, who are hired to make blind phone calls to prospects hoping to get a commission by having them \u201csign\u201d without ever having scouted or evaluated the kids in any justifiable fashion.\u00a0 At NSR<\/strong>, we call this\u00a0business model\u00a0the \u201cCatch and Release Method\u201d\u00a0 in which prospects are caught and then released to basically be on their own.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

NSR<\/strong> is service oriented and focused.\u00a0 Once with NSR<\/strong>, prospects are guided through the recruiting process\u00a0utilizing a variety of time-tested methods which keep clients informed of essential recruiting information.\u00a0 Personal scouts and home office advisors are constantly on call to assist clients.\u00a0 We are the real deal.\u00a0 Bob Rigney would have it no other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

30\u00a0Years and Counting, NSR Continues Founder’s Legacy\u00a0\u00a0 NSR\u2019s 30-year anniversary of helping high school student-athletes attract the attention, receive evaluations and get recruited by college coaches starts this month as we chronicle the extraordinary legacy created in 1980 by founder Bob Rigney (pictured) and carried on today by the Rigney family.\u00a0 Dubbed \u201cThe Father of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}