VT Sports Solutions · Research Suite

Every quote, from and about your whole roster.

Quote Sniffer reads the open web and returns every direct quote a player gave — and every quote said about them — sourced, dated, and sorted by topic. One player, or all 100 on the roster.

See a live roster → How it works

What if you could get a clean scrape of every quote from and about an entire football roster — in an afternoon, not a season?

Today that's a research assistant with 40 browser tabs, copying quotes into a doc, losing the source link, and missing the local beat writer who broke the story. Quote Sniffer does the whole roster at once — and shows its work.

Where it fits

One tool in the VTSS research suite.

VT Sports Solutions builds bespoke software for broadcasters, analysts, and front offices — custom research assistants, monitoring, and reporting that take repetitive prep off your desk. Quote Sniffer is the quote-gathering engine in that suite: point it at a name or a roster, and it does the digging.

How it works

A seven-step pipeline, fully sourced.

Each player runs through the same chain. Nothing is invented — every quote traces back to a real article with a link, a date, and a confidence score.

Plan the search

Builds 12–15 targeted queries per player — direct quotes, coach and staff comments, postgame reactions, transfer and recruiting context, scouting takes.normalize

Find the sources

Searches the open web and gathers candidate articles — national outlets, team sites, and the local beat writers who actually do the interviews.discover → fetch

Pull the quotes

Reads each page and extracts what the player said — and what coaches, teammates, and scouts said about them.extract

Clean it up

Merges the same quote repeated across outlets into one entry, so you're not reading the same line ten times.dedupe

Sort and score

Tags each quote by topic, marks direct quotes vs. paraphrases, and scores how confident it is in the attribution.classify

Hand you a report

Delivers a clean per-player report — readable on the web, or as structured data your other tools can ingest.render

What lands on your desk

A report you can read on air — and data you can build on.

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    Direct quotes, verbatim — separated from paraphrases so you always know what was actually said.
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    Every quote linked to its source article, with the publish date.
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    Organized by topic — injury recovery, recruitment, team culture, transfer decisions, and more.
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    Quotes about the player from coaches, teammates, and scouts — not just their own words.
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    A confidence score on every attribution, so you can trust what goes on air.
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    A date range and topic summary at the top — the story at a glance.

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Blake Smythe DL

10 quotes · 9 direct · 6 sources · Generated Apr 20, 2026

Family influence

"I always had a ball in my hand. I just always loved the sport. … I feel like it was honestly just like in my genetics."

— Blake Smythe, May 15, 2025 · The Daily Hoosier · Confidence 1.00

Family legacy

"Honestly, it means a lot. He made a name for himself down there, and obviously I want to go make a name for myself too…"

— Blake Smythe · The Daily Hoosier · Confidence 1.00

Real report from the Indiana 2026 run · live viewer linked below

Who it's for

Built for the people who prep the broadcast and the people who do the research.

For broadcasters

Walk into the booth already prepped.

  • → A quote pack for every player on both rosters before kickoff.
  • → Storylines surface themselves — injury comebacks, transfers, family ties.
  • → Every line is sourced, so you can use it on air with confidence.
  • → Hours of tab-digging replaced by one report per player.

For researchers & analysts

Start from a structured corpus, not a blank doc.

  • → Structured JSON for every quote — topic, date, source, confidence.
  • → Whole-roster coverage in one pass; no player slips through.
  • → Track sentiment and themes across a season or a transfer class.
  • → Feeds your dashboards, models, and reports directly.

Proof

One command. Dozens of players. One afternoon.

Indiana 2026 football — a single run across the DL, WR, and RB groups:

45
players covered
603
quotes gathered
532
direct quotes
44
distinct sources

See what a full roster of reports looks like.

Click into the live viewer — real players, real quotes, every source linked. Then let's talk about running it on the roster you cover.

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Quote Sniffer · a VT Sports Solutions research tool · software for sports professionals, built one staff at a time.