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| IFSB Executive Staff Biographies |
Jared Lane, Operations Manager/Indoor-Arena Football Coordinator
Founding Member, Jared Lane handled a bulk of the Player Personnel for the Wyoming Cavalry (National Indoor Football League) in 2005. Lane successfully signed 7 players with either National Football League or Canadian Football League experience to play for the Wyoming Cavalry Organization. The team went from 4-9 in 2004, to a franchise best 10-5 in the 2005 season. In direct correlation the Wyoming Cavalry attendance went up on average 500 fans per game over the season. One of the players Lane recommended to Wyoming after the 2005 draft , CB/KR JR Ruffin (Idaho), honed his DB skills with the Cavalry and went on to sign with the CFL Calgary Stampeders where he was voted the teams "Most Outstanding Rookie" in 2006 while leading the CFL in kickoff returns, yds & average. In 2006 Lane was hired as the Director of Player Personnel for the Tennessee Valley Vipers (Af2) where he was responsible for the signing of Three future NFL/NFLE players; Quartez Vickerson DT Tennessee Titans, Mark Myers K NY Jets, and Walter Washington QB Berlin Thunder NFLE. In addition, there were three other players that signed with the AFL; Farouk Adelekan DL NY Dragons, Torrey Day WR Orlando Predators, and Stan Primas OL Kansas City Brigade.
In addition to running the daily business operations of IFSB , Lane is currently working on his master degree in Sports Leadership from Duquesne University. |
Ken Robinson, Pro Personnel Consultant , Player Evaluations
In November 2007 Ken Robinson was hired on as a Western Regional scout for Team Texas of the All American Football League www.AAFL.com . Although he won't be able to recruit for pro indoor teams his advancement will allow him to focus his energies this spring on scouting the top pro indoor talent for 2009 AAFL opportunities.
Ken was an integral part in the formation of the Indoor Football Scouting Bureau (IFSB). As one of the companies founders he oversaw the design and creation of the website ; suggesting innovative features such as an online player database & video uploading features so teams could access profiles and players could market their film thru emails. He also oversaw the player scouting department , handled a bulk of the pro recruiting & player advancement as well as most of the marketing.
Prior to IFSB he was a Canadian Football League scout in 2005 & 2006 with the Ottawa Renegades. Under the tutelage of Renegades Director of Football Development Richard Wade , Robinson played a major role in the Western Region of Coach John Jenkins' scouting machine that saw its scouts attend twenty-eight National Football League training camps in 2005 and compiled over one thousand player report files that have been called cutting edge scouting material. Renegades Vice President/General Manager and NFL Hall of Famer Forrest Gregg has "likened Robinson to a New York stock exchange broker who can quote the facts of virtually hundreds of potential players available" and who "ceaselessly grinds out player leads, scouting reports and stocks the coast to coast workouts with top athletes from his Arizona headquarters. In 2006 Jenkins' open tryouts resulted in 21 players being signed to CFL contracts, including players from such storied NCAA programs as USC, Florida State and Alabama who are loaded with outstanding individual talent.
Previous to his CFL scouting Robinson was the founder of InterNATIONAL FOOTBALL SCOUTING, a football scouting & marketing services company that assists coaches & American football players who have completed their college eligibility with opportunities that exist overseas. InterNATIONAL FOOTBALL SCOUTING has thousands of coaching and scouting contacts all over the world and also contracts with and serves as a US football scout & consultant for many overseas teams wanting information on the top available Free Agent Prospects.
In addition to his experience as a scout, Robinson was an All Conference Wide Receiver and is experienced as a coach ,having helped install the Run & Shoot offense as a gameday strategist
,QB/WR coach for Bound Brook High School in New Jersey and later served as an offensive assistant/LB's coach for Marcos DeNizia High School in Arizona. He was an advance scout for Coach Jim Rattay's Phoenix Christian High School teams that won back to back State Championships in 2004 & 2005.
Robinson has been around or involved with football for most all of his life and credits his early knowledge and passion for the game to his late father, Sid,a four year starter at TE/DE and an All State football player on two High School State Championship teams in South River, NJ who had college scholarship offers in 3 sports including Basketball powers Indiana and Kentucky but he chose to focus on football after college and in 1958 received an invite from Coach Weeb Ewbank to attend a Baltimore Colts mini camp.He later coached future NFL Stars Joe Theismann and Drew Pearson when they were little kids as well as many other youth players who went on to have great High School & College football success during his over 20 years as a Pop Warner coach in the South River & Bound Brook, NJ communities.
Ken began his college scouting with College Prospects of America the largest marketing service for athletes in the world in 1990.They help talented young people from the US and many other countries get the best education at the best possible price, while allowing them to continue to participate in a sport they love. He has contributed to various NFL Draft publications on and off since 1989.
The Indoor Football Scouting Bureau is pro education and as such we will only work to place players with pro football teams if they have either completed their college eligibility or are at least 22 years of age or older.
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Mel Gray, Player Development, CFL/NFL Evaluator
The Indoor Football Scouting Bureau is very pleased to announce the additon of Mel Gray to its Executive Staff. Mel's duties will include Indoor Film evalaution of players that he and IFSB believe have the ability to play at the AFL, CFL, or NFL level but have been overlooked or needed to get more reps.In addition he will work in player development and help work with some of the Indoor's top flight WR's during IFSB's planned NFL Player Development combines after the Indoor Season. Mel is currently also coaching with the McHenry County Gladiators in Illinois. Mel Gray was a Wide Receiver for the St.Louis Cardinals from 1971-1982. By the time he finished his career with the Cardinals in 1982, Gray's production placed him among the leaders on the club's all-time receiving list with 351 receptions (third) for 6,644 yards (second) with 45 touchdowns (second) and an impressive 18.9-yard career average-per-catch. In addition, he departed the NFL with a streak of 121 consecutive games catching a pass, at the time second in league history to 127 games by Harold Carmichael. Mel attended the University of Missouri with the intention of pursuing his career as a track standout, and squeezing in football as time permits. While in Columbia, Gray was a sprint champion and won seven of nine 100-yard crowns on the Drake-Kansas-Texas relay circuit. He was named the outstanding performer in the 1970 meet with first-place finishes in the 100- and 220-yard dashes, first in the long jump, and added a third place showing in the triple jump to personally account for a record 38 points.
Armed with a 4.3 clocking in the 40-yard dash, Gray authored a brilliant rookie season with the Cardinals as he averaged 24.7 yards on 30 kickoff returns and 29.7 yards receiving with 18 receptions for 534 yards, including long-range scoring plays of 80, 64, 60 and 57 yards.In 1974, "Air Coryell" hit new heights as Hart, Smith, Gray, and running back Terry Metcalf carried the club to a 10-4 record. Gray's team-best 19.7-yard receiving average and six touchdowns helped secure the club's first NFC East title and his first of four consecutive Pro Bowl selections and a pair of all-pro honors. |
Michael Husted, National Special Teams Scout
Former NFL Kicker with the Kansas City Chiefs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
Leon Hughes, National Scouting Coordinator & Big East Player Evaluator
Leon Hughes is originally from Philadelphia, PA and currently lives in Hazleton PA. Leon began with IFSB as an entry level scout after completing an internship with former NFL scout Russ Lande,founder of GM Jr www.gmjr.com and author of GM Jr’s Guide To The NFL Draft. Leon quickly rose up the ranks from entry level scout to area scout covering sections of Ohio and Pa within his territory.
After completing all assignments in a timely manner Leon was promoted to Central Region Scouting Director. Leon's hard work and effort and passion for scouting & football in general played a key role in his advancement. In April 2007 , Leon was given the added title of National Scouting Coordinator where his duties will include interviewing potential scouting candidates, reviewing research and phone assignments, and educating the scouts on our policies and procedures... Leon will also write independent scouting reports and mini evals on qualified college seniors,
draft board prospects with free agent grades as well as the top performing pro indoor players from previous years draft classes who have clearly played above their competition and warrant potential for advancement.
His DivIA college scouting will focus on the Big East Conference seniors with free agent grades and non draft board free agents. Leon also contributes information on prospects from the A-10 (IAA), PSAC & MIAA (D2), and the OAC & NCAC D3 conferences. |
| CFL/NFL/AFL Scouts |
John Gregory, CFL/NFL/AFL player evaluator & consultant
John Gregory has seen just about everything a coach can see in one sport. His first job in football was back when Lyndon B. Johnson was President of the United States. Since then he has consistently taken over football programs that have struggled before his arrival and led them to success. As an assistant head coach and athletic director at Iowa Central Community College, Gregory was charged with building a football program from the ground up. In just three years, the program had a 24-3-1 record and won the Wool Bowl in ’69. Gregory’s success at Iowa Central CC went on after he left. John Matusak was a Gregory recruit, and he went on to become the number one pick in the 1974 NFL Draft. Gregory got his first college head coaching job at South Dakota State in 1971 and stayed for 10 years. To this day, Gregory is still second in school history in coaching victories and he led the team to a single season best of 9-2 in ’79. SDSU didn’t have a winning record the previous 11 seasons before Gregory’s arrival. After a one year stop as offensive coordinator at his alma mater of Northern Iowa, Gregory went further north to Canada and the Canadian Football League. While in the CFL, Gregory won a CFL championship in ‘84 as the offensive line coach for Winnipeg. Gregory’s offensive line helped the team set a CFL rushing record in ‘84 and Gregory was named CFL Outstanding Offensive Line Coach. Saskatchewan noticed what Winnipeg had, and gave Gregory his first professional head coaching job and he didn’t disappoint. Saskatchewan didn’t have a winning season in the 11 years prior to Gregory’s arrival, and they didn’t win a Grey Cup (CFL Title) in 22 years. In 1989, Gregory led a Saskatchewan team that no one gave much of a chance of winning, and won the Grey Cup championship. In the process, Gregory was named CFL Coach of the Year, and he was elected to the Saskatchewan Hall of Fame in 1996. Gregory went on to coach for Hamilton of the CFL in ’91, making the postseason four of the five years he was with the team before the founder of a new football league came calling. Jim Foster invented Arena Football and needed a coach for a team he was starting in Des Moines, IA. Foster interviewed and hired Gregory to build the Iowa team from scratch. Gregory looked high and low for players; even recruiting a little known quarterback he heard was working at a local grocery store. Gregory gave Kurt Warner a tryout, and the rest is, as they say, history. Gregory coached the Barnstormers to five division titles in six years, led the team to two Arena Bowl title games, and the offense was the one of the most innovative offenses the sport had ever seen. Warner and his processor, Aaron Garcia were recently named as two of the greatest AFL players ever. Gregory earned AFL Coach of the Year honors in ’95 and ’96, the only coach in AFL history to do so, and nearly made it three in a row when he finished second ’97. The Barnstormers relocated to New York in 2000 and Gregory left the team in ’03. After a brief stop at Carolina, Gregory decided to call it a career in coaching. Then Gregory got another call from Jim Foster. Foster told Gregory of a team that is the “Jewel of the af2” and needed his help. The team was successful early on, but had won just 4 of its last 20 games. Along with af2 President Jerry Kurz, and Jack Lankford, Gregory was convinced staying in retirement wasn't the thing to do. Gregory took over the Arkansas Twisters four games into the 2005 season, going 5-7. The final four losses were by a combined score of 19 points, with two games being decided in the last minute of play. Gregory led the Twisters back to the playoffs in 2006.Coach Gregory and longtime friend & colleague, Ray Jauch will host private evaluation camps in Carolia area after the pro indoor season... |
Ron Erhardt, Consultant
Ron Erhardt was a head coach for the National Football League's New England Patriots. He gained greater fame as an Offensive Coordinator for the New York Giants,Pittsburgh Steelers, and New York Jets. Erhardt was in charge of the offense during the Giants' two Super Bowl wins in Super Bowl XXI and Super Bowl XXV. He was also the offensive coordinator for Pittsburgh in Super Bowl XXX. Ron continues to work with NFL teams as a consultant during training camp. Coach Erhardt graciously lent his expertise in evaluating and conducting private workouts for select only QB's/WR's in the Florida area for IFSB in 2006 but has decided to focus more of his time in 2007-'08 to his youth clinics and his work as a coaches consultant for NFL teams during training camp. |
Ray Jauch, CFL/NFL/AFL Player Evaluator
Among his many accomplishments in the sports field, Ray coached football in the Canadian Football League. He coached in Edmonton from 1970-76, Winnipeg from 1978-82, and Saskatchewan, 1994-95 for a total of 14 years. His CFL teams were in the playoffs ten seasons. He holds an all-time most regular seasons won of 127 and was twice named CFL Coach of the Year (Edmonton-1970), & (Winnipeg-1980). Ray was also head coach of the Washington Federals of the USFL in 1983 and the AFL's Minnesota Fighting Pike in 1996. He has been recognized as one of the key contributors, along with Coach "Mouse" Davis, to Jim Foster and the formation of the AFL. His son Jimmy is a college scout for the Cleveland Browns. Coach Jauch will lend his expertise in evaluating the Indoor Football League's top offensive players as an Independent scout as well as conduct private workouts for select only QB's/WR's in the Illinois & North Carolina areas.
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Raymond Philyaw, AFL QB Scout
Ray Philyaw is arguably the best QB to ever play the indoor game and the Indoor Football Scouting Bureau is pleased to have him on board as a QB scout as he begins his scouting career while continuing to entertain offers from AFL teams.Raymond is a graduate of Northeast Louisiana and is the school's all-time leader with 52 touchdown passes. He also is second on NE Louisiana's passing charts with 7,061 yards. Philyaw's four year totals include 477 completions on 924 attempts with 22 interceptions.In 6 years in the AFL ,Philyaw has completed 1311 of 2052 passes (63.9%) for 15,604 yds with 289 touchdowns and incredibly just 32 picks for a QB rating of 115.72. Among Philyaw's duties with IFSB will be evaluating and writing up scouting reports on the top developmental indoor QB prospects who have potential for AFL ,CFL or NFL opportunities. |
Grant Noel, Player Evaluator/Scout
Grant Noel was a preseason and postseason All America pick by PrepStar during his High School days at Frankfort High in West Virginia. ....he was rated the No 2 QB in the Eastern Region by that publication. Helped the football team to a 29-4 record during his career and also lettered in basketball and baseball. .....Grant went on to become the starting QB for Virginia Tech in 2001 throwing for 1826 yards on 146 of 254 passing in 11 contests..........Grant's career was slowed by two kneee injuries but he bounced back both times and was signed by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2003 and was listed as the #3 QB that year..........Grant will serve as an independent scout for IFSB......His duties will include writing player evaluation reports on the top indoor players and assist with player combines in the Baltimore,MD and Washington, DC areas. |
Chris Melnyk, CFL Scout/Player Evaluator
Chris Melnyk is a player evaluator and scout with the Indoor Football Scouting Bureau. He resides in Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada and works in the football operations department for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He has been involved with the CFL for the past six years, and has worked under the current director of football operations for the Canadian Football League. He focuses his efforts on evaluating players who cannot stick with an NFL club, and have a chance to make an impact in the CFL. He scouts NCAA, CIS, NFL Europe, NFL, and CFL players. He graduated from the University of Manitoba with his BA majoring in Economics, and has taken over 25 classes at the Asper School of Business, which helps him in managing Schmeckers Restaurant and Bar. Chris is also a recent graduate from Football GM and Scouting course through Sports Management Worldwide www.smww.com , learning under the tutelage of former NFL Scout, Russ lande , current founder of GM Jr www.gmjr.com and author of GM Jr’s Guide To The NFL Draft.He also has five years of coaching experience under his belt with two different organizations. Chris’s extensive knowledge comes from being involved in football for the past 18 years as a player, coach, and scout. |
| Area Scouts |
Audley McGill, Ohio Area Scout
Audley McGill an Ohio Area Scout with the Indoor Football Scouting Bureau, which will cover the Ohio/Pennsylvania area. He is also the Player Acquisition Specialist for the Global Management Group. Audley has a wealth of experience working with Professional Athletes. He worked for Diamond Sports Management as a Player Acquisition Specialist (2002-2004) where he brought in several players who went on to play in the NFL, CFL, and AFL. He also worked with Quantum Sports Promotions as Executive Director from (1998-2002). Supervised day-to-day operations of the business, helped several high school athletes obtain college scholarships, helped several athletes find agents and forwarded player bio's to several professional teams. He also has coordinated several football camps for professional athletes. Audley McGill has a Bachelors Degree in Business Management. |
Josh Walters, Southeast Area Scout, Research & Quality Control
A sports management student with 8yrs. of football playing & coaching experience, including one year in the semi-pro Ohio valley football league. Josh has been evaluating college talent on his own for over 5 years and is a former sales representative for www.indoorfootballfan.com who hopes to one day work as a head coach or GM at either the college or minor pro levels. Josh's duties include information research , player evaluation & scouting and indoor team client relations with an emphasis on the Great Lakes Indoor Football League (GLIFL) www.glifl.com . |
Sohel Hussain, Mid-Atlantic Area Scout(NY/NJ/DE/MD), Research & Quality Control
Sohel's duties include information research, player evaluation and scouting of both the Minor League Outdoor and Indoor levels with an emphasis on the Eastern Region.Sohel will also help coordinate player development combines and handle individual player placement for entry level indoor players on the Eastern Region |
Kurt Harmening, Northeast Area Scout, Research, & Player Evaluator
" From the Hartford area, Kurt Harmening has been evaluating college football talent on his own for 5 years, and has been a senior columnist/evaluator at NFL Draft Blitz for going on a year. With a specialty in offensive lineman, Kurt's column "In the trenches" concentrates on this aspect and its surrounding effect on the college and pro game. He also has spent time recently preparing content for the new York Jets fan site Theganggreen.com's yet to be released draft page,and looks forward to future opportunities as they present itself".Kurt's duties with IFSB will include information research, player evaluation, and scouting with an emphasis on college Offensive Linemen as well as indoor team client relations. |
| Indoor League Scouts |
Mike Wyatt, NIFL Atlantic Conference Scout
Coach Wyatt will oversee & recommend top talent from the National Indoor Football League (NIFL) www.niflfootball.com Atlantic Conference for IFSB's planned player development combines after the indoor season.These will be run by a top scouting service and will be by invite only in front of NFL, NFLE, CFL and/or AFL personnel.Coach Wyatt brings over 27 years of coaching and scouting experience to the IFSB team which include stints in college , overseas and his current pro indoor with the NIFL.He has twice been named NIFL Atlantic Conference coach of the Year after the 2004 and 2005 seasons as well as General Manager of the Year in 2005. Wyatt has also served as a Midwest area scout for two years in the CFL with the Ottawa Roughriders writing reports and making recommendations on signings, trades , and cuts. |
Dan Whitsett, NIFL Pacific Conference Scout
Coach Whitsett will oversee & recommend top talent from the National Indoor Football League (NIFL) www.niflfootball.com Pacific Conference for IFSB's planned player development combines after the indoor season.These will be run by a top scouting service and will be by invite only in front of NFL, NFLE, CFL and/or AFL personnel.Whitsett began scouting both amateur and professional baseball talent for the Network Scouting Service. He has been responsible for sending over 80 baseball players to college and professional baseball in the last 10 years. His scouting abilities transferred into the game of football and since 2000 he has sent several small college athletes into Arena Football and to CFL camps.
He is currently the Head Coach of the Tri Cities Fever.Under his guidance, the Fever went 12-4 last year while finishing 13-5 overall and won the Indoor Bowl V National Championship over the Rome Renegades.He is also the Head Football coach at Tri-Cities Prep High School in Pasco. In his first season under the helm in football he led Prep to their first winning season in school history, and then followed that up with an 8-2 record in 2005 and a 6th overall ranking in the State. Coach Dan is the President and Founder of the Pac-NW8 High School Football Association. Started by Whitsett in 2000, the Association promotes and enhances 8-man high school football programs from Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Each summer Whitsett puts on the Pac-NW8 "Elite Prospect Camp" for college football prospects from the region that play at the 8-man level. |
Mike Esposito, IFL Scout
Coach Esposito will oversee & recommend top talent from the Intense Football League (IFL) www.intensefootballleague.net for IFSB's planned player development combines after the indoor season.These will be run by a top scouting service and will be by invite only in front of NFL, NFLE, CFL and/or AFL personnel.Before taking over the Roughnecks he was most recently the head coach for the Erie Freeze, a franchise noted to be one the best operated in the American Indoor Football League. Espo brings a wealth of football experience to Odessa. He was a unanimous choice for the 2005 AIFL Coach of the Year and both he and his team enjoyed a regular season title and home field advantage throughout the playoffs. Prior to his service as both the business GM and Head Coach in Erie, Esposito held the same titles with the Cincinnati Swarm of the Arenafootball 2. Esposito garnered the position after righting the floundering ship of AF2's Rochester Brigade. |
| Player Evaluators/Regional Scouts |
Nick Whiting, SEC Scout / Southeast Region Player Evaluator
Nick is from Panama City, FL where he played football at Rutherford High School. He currently attends the University of West Florida and is majoring in Public Relations. He is a columnist for NFL Draft Blitz www.nfldraftblitz.com. His duties at IFSB are information research,player evaluation, scouting, and individual player placement. His focus in DivIA is on the SEC free agent prospects. Nick also contributes information on prospects from the OVC conference (DivIAA). He is looking for future football opportunities as they come along, whether it is professional or collegiate and this season was a player personnel assistant for the AIFA League Champion Lakeland Thunderbolts while completing a recruting internship at the University of TN-Chattanooga. |
Cory Itson, SEC Scout / Southeast Region Player Evaluator
Cory Itson was in Buffalo, N.Y. and began playing football at age 9. He graduated from Jamestown High School in Jamestown N.Y. in 1998. Cory was the starting running back on the junior varsity football team as an 8th grader, with the team going 7-1. He started at the varsity level as a cornerback as a freshman and sophomore in 1994 and 1995. His school won the large school's class A New York State championship at the Syracuse Carrier Dome going 13-0 both years. In 1994 they were ranked 25 in the nation, and in 1995 ranked 23 in the nation. In his junior and senior year Cory's team made it to the playoffs. He started at running back and rushed for over 1,000 yards both season's. Cory attended Suny Canton College and started at cornerback before a injury ended my career.
Cory Currently resides in South Florida and has plans to go back to college and pursue a degree in Sports Management. He began working with the Indoor Football Scouting Bureau in October of 2007 as a independent scout after sucessfully completing the Football General Manager and Scouting course taught by former Cleveland Browns scout Russ Lane of Sports Management World Wide in June of 2007. Cory was a athletic trainer and assistant coach for Coral Springs Charter High's varsity football team in Coral Springs Florida in 2006. |
Open Position, MAC Scout / Northeast-MidAtlantic Region Player Evaluator
Scout's duties with IFSB will include player research ,prospect interviews, and assisting entry level players with pro indoor team placement.Candidate should enjoy spending time on computer-researching the internet and be familiar with MS-Word, Excel (Power Point, Frontpage a plus).Scout specifically will cover the D1 MAC conference focusing on building a player database to include Draft board and non draft board listed players and will also contribute information on prospects from the Patriot & MAAC (DivIAA), NE-10 (D2), and the NJAC, Empire8, and Liberty(D3) Conferences. In addition scout will serve as independent contractor offering free mini evals as well as an updated 3-game evaluation service to college seniors ,pro indoor players as well as entry level & non draft board listed free agents for a nominal fee.
** Minimum work hrs required (4 hrs/ week phone-documented with call sheet) and (6hrs/week computer research-documented with completed assigments)**
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Ken Becks, Ohio Area Scout & Player Evaluator
Ken Becks is a Player Evaluator/Scout with the Indoor Football Scouting Bureau. He also is a senior college football analyst for FFToolbox and independently for www.kbgridironevaluations.com . His duties include offering his scouting evaluations for the top indoor prospects at a discounted rate.These will be updated,detailed scouting reports on the players indoor performance and will be sent to AFL,CFL or NFL teams depending on the players target level and/or abilities. These will be offered in 3 game segments at a reduced rate and will be very beneficial for the players who are needing to develop in other positions and will be from an unbiased source which will be beneficial to player agents as well. He is an aspiring NFL scout and has been evaluating NFL caliber talent for over ten years. Within a college football season, he tapes hundreds of college games and uses his unique eye for talent to evaluate each college teams players. Examples of college players in the past that were not highly coveted on draft day, but that Ken was high on: QB Jeff Garcia, QB Aaron Brooks, RB Priest Holmes, DE Adewale Ogunleye.This year he was the first draft evaluator to list QB Jay Cutler as the top QB in the Draft. |
Raj Thompson, West Coast Scout & Player Evaluator
Raj Thompson was born in Los Angeles, Ca. and currrently lives in Downey, Ca where he works as a personal trainer. He played high school football at Downey High where he played running back, strong safety. As a senior in high school, he led the league in rushing yards with 1,482, 5.5 yards per carry, and 20 touchdowns. Raj was Co-MVP of the San Gabriel Valley League, and made the East vs. West 605 All-Star game. Finished the game with 10 carries for 72 yards and 2 touchdowns. Received a full football scholarship to play at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. Played two years at running back before making the switch to defense to play rover (Linebacker/Safety). Started at rover Junior and Senior year. Finished senior year fourth on the team with 59 tackles, 13 tackles were for a loss of 65 yards. First on the team with 7.0 sacks. Graduated from Cal Poly with a BA in Political Science with a concentration in Criminal Justice. Played football for the German Football League (GFL) for the Saarland Hurricanes. Led the team with 2.0 sacks. Came back to the states and took a NFL General Manager and Scouting course with Sports Management WorldWide (SMWW) www.smww.com . His instructor was former Cleveland Browns and Rams NFL scout Russ Lande. Gained knowledge on the criteria for player evaluation . Raj will be an entry level player evaluator & scout for IFSB in addition to his duties as a California college scout. He will also assist the Indoor Football Scouting Bureau with its player evaluation combines. |
James Huntington, WAC Conf Scout /Rocky Mtn & Great Plains Area Player Evaluator
James was born in New Leipzig, N.D. and now lives in Bismarck, N.D.. He is currently works with Pro Football Central www.ProFootballCentral.com as a journalist interviewing and scouting players for team fans to get to know their favorite players better.He also has spent the last ten years spotting and analyzing statistical trends at the college and professional football levels. In 2005 he was signed by Stats, Inc as a statistical reporter and in 2006 finished the Football GM and Scouting Course from Sports Management WorldWide www.smww.com where he gained knowledge and valuable experience in evaluating football talent. The course was instructed by former Cleveland Browns scout ,and current founder of GM Jr and www.gmjr.com and author of GM Jr’s Guide To The NFL Draft Russ Lande along with former Green Bay Packer Matt Brock. James is using these experiences and now fulfilling his lifelong dream of football personnel and player evaluation at the college and professional levels. James Huntington will serve as an entry level player evaluator & scout for IFSB in addition to his duties as a regional college scout. His focus in DivIA is on the WAC Conference free agent prospects. James also contributes information on prospects from the Great West Conf (IAA),NSIC & NCC on the D2 level as well as D3 conferences MIAA, and MIAC. He will also assist the Indoor Football Scouting Bureau with its player evaluation combines
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Braden Countryman, PAC-10 Scout / Northwest Region Player Evaluator
Braden Countryman is originally from Portland, OR and currently lives in Eugene, OR,where he is finishing his economics degree. Braden's role with IFSB will be as an entry level scout. His duties in 2007-'08 will include college scouting and player personnel evaluations with an emphasis on free agents from the PAC-10. Braden also contributes information on prospects from the GNAC(D2), NWC (D3), and Frontier (NAIA)conferences. Braden recently completed a scouting course with sports management worldwide www.smww.com which was taught by former NFL scout Russ Lande, current founder of GM Jr and www.gmjr.com and author of GM Jr’s Guide To The NFL Draft. Braden's goals right now are to continue to learn as much as he can from IFSB until he graduates, He is looking for future football opportunities as they come along, and hopes to start working for an NFL franchise this spring. |
Keith Antigiovanni, Far West Region Player Evaluator
Keith is from San Diego, Ca and currently works as an assistant coach for the Mission Bay High School Freshman team and is a graduate of the University of San Diego. Keith also worked as a free lance sportswriter for both www.football.com and www.arenafan.com .Keith recently completed a scouting course with sports management worldwide www.smww.com which was taught by former NFL scout Russ Lande, current founder of GM Jr and www.gmjr.com and author of GM Jr’s Guide To The NFL Draft. Keith's duties with IFSB include college scouting and film study with an emphasis on projected free agent players from the Far West region as well as pro prospects from the Pioneer (DIAA), and SCIAC (D3)conferences. He would like to work for a professional football team in coaching, scouting or any other capacity that helps the organization succeed. |
Ben Everhart, Northeast Region Player Evaluator
Ben Everhart currently lives in Cheektowaga,NY, but also has spent time in Orlando,Fl, and Binghamton, NY.Ben played High School football for two years at Johnson City High School outside of Binghamton. Ben's role with IFSB will be as an entry level scout in the northeastern U.S. His duties will include college scouting and player personnel evaluations. He also contributes information on prospects from the MEAC (IAA), Gulf South (D2), and the ASC & SCAC (D3) conferences. Ben has recently completed a scouting course with sports management worldwide www.smww.com which was taught by former NFL scout Russ Lande, current founder of GM Jr and www.gmjr.com and author of GM Jr’s Guide To The NFL Draft. |
Roger Thompson, Big 12 Scout / Player Evaluator
Roger is from Northfield, Mn and grew up in southern Minnesota. He was an all-state football player in high school and played college football. He graduated from Iowa State University in 1989. His role with IFSB will be as a college scout for the Big 12 and other conferences in the Midwest area. He will also be involved in player placement and prospect evaluations. Roger recently completed a scouting course offered by Sports Management Worldwide www.smww.com that was taught by former Cleveland Browns scout and current Sporting News NFL draft expert Russ Lande. He will use the techniques learned from this course to be able to evaluate players and help them focus
on areas that they need to improve to raise their draft grade or free agent signing status. His long term goals are to work as an NFL scout or in the front office. |
Sean Rackley, DIV 1 SUN BELT CONF/ DIV 2 SOUTHLAND CONF. / Player Evaluator
Sean grew up in Wilmington,NC and currently resides in that same area. He graduated from John T. Hoggard High. There he played varsity baseball and basketball. Soon after graduation he started managing a restaurant and has done that up until recently. Sean has always had a passion for the game of football and knows alot about the game but never really knew how to go about getting into the sport besides playing the sport. He soon found the way to follow his passion and that's when he enrolled in SMWW. SMWW taught him and gave him all the tools on football scouting. Thus after recently completing the course under the guidance of Russ Lande of the book GM JR. and Michael Lombardi a former pro football scout and as of now he does appearances on the NFL Network and has a blog Lombardionfootball.blog. My ultimate goal one day is to be a NFL scout then a GM.
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| College Interns |
Jerrand Nesmith, College Intern, Concord(W.Va.)
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Britt Debusk, College Intern, Tusculum
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Andrew Ellison, North East Minor League Scouting Director
Coach E was a member of 2 National Championship Teams and helped sign over 100 player contracts and arranged over 200 Player tryouts! He most recently was inducted into the Minor League Football Hall of Fame on December 8th,2005. He has worked with many pro teams at Free Agent Tryouts and was a Camp Director for FASCO.Coach E's duties with IFSB will include coordinating player development combines in search of the top semi pro talent on the eastern seaboard and individual player placement. |
Chris Russell, NY Scout & Player Evaluator
Chris Russell is originally from New Milford, New Jersey and currently lives in Troy, NY. Chris played high school football at Bergen Catholic High School in Oradell, NJ where he played offensive and defensive line.While serving as an officer in the US Army at Fort Lewis Washington, Chris coached offensive line and scouted future opponents for the post 8-man football league. Following the military, he spent a year as the Offensive Coordinator and line coach for the Nashua Predators of the New England Football League. He is currently a scout and assistant coach for Tamarac High School in Brunswick, NY.He has graduated from Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Babson College, Wellesley, MA with a Master of Business Administration.Chris' role with IFSB will be as an entry level scout . His duties will include writing player evaluations with an emphasis on the OLine and DLine indoor prospects.He has recently completed a scouting course with Sports Management Worldwide www.smww.com which was taught by former NFL scout Russ Lande. |
Fabian Baez, NYC area semi pro scout/Player evaluator
Fabian resides in New York City. He holds a B.A. in Communications and a M.A. in Physical Education. He coached at George Washington High School in NYC from 1999-2005. Washington has become one of the most competitive and respected programs in the city while graduating all of their players. He was also instrumental in building community support for the football program. He has contributed articles and interviews for www.ProFootballCentral.com. After the 2006 NFL Draft, he interviewed current Raven Chris Chester and Steeler Cedric Humes. In 2005, he successfully completed the Sports Management Worldwide www.smww.com Football GM & Scouting course taught by former NFL Scout Russ Lande ,current founder of GM Jr www.gmjr.com and author of GM Jr’s Guide To The NFL Draft.Fabian aspires to help programs/organizations achieve a championship level and build upon that success while contributing to the betterment of people's lives. In 2006, he joined the highly
successful NY Bandits semi pro organization. He is an offensive assistant coach and helps with team operations.His duties with IFSB includes scouting semi pro football in the New York City area and evaluation services. |
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