Create an account : Log In   Tommy Lawlor has been following the Draft for over 20 years. He’s been studying tape and taking notes on players for over a decade now. Tommy has been trained by an NFL scout in the art of scouting and player evaluation. He’s learned the game from watching football for thirty years, reading numerous books, and picking the brains of various college and high school coaching staffs. He’s broadcast basketball and football games, as well as smaller sports, for WASU-FM, WCHL-AM, and WDAI-FM. He also co-hosted a daily sports talk show for WDAI in Myrtle Beach, SC. While in college, he was an Intern for WBTV in Charlotte, NC and helped cover professional and college sports. He kept the bench very warm for one year of HS football. Tommy has contributed to various websites, most of which don’t involve a dominatrix. Matt Alkire is also employed by Fox Sports where he works as a college and high school football recruiting analyst, mainly covering the Northeast portion of the country for Scout.com where he coordinates with players, coaches and administrators at the high school and collegiate levels. He is a regular for many ESPN radio affiliates for both the NFL Draft and high school recruiting, contributes on a regular basis to Fox publications and was also featured in former New England Patriot All-Pro Brent William’s book “Recruit My Son”. He has been doing extensive film study since the 2003 season for the NFL Draft. As a football player, Alkire played both defensive end and tight end and comes from a family with a rich coaching background. He now resides in Folsom, Pa., with his wife Emma. You can contact Matt for any media inquiries pertaining to this site at matthew.alkire@gmail.com. --------------------------------------------- Scoutsnotebook.com is a different kind of website. We are not Draft analysts. We are scouts. We take detailed notes on prospects. We don’t just follow the top 50 players in the draft and post new mock drafts three times a week. If you want hype, wild rumors, and sensationalism, this isn’t the place for you. If you want to read about what players actually did on the field, this should be your new home. Coach after coach, GM after GM, scout after scout, they all say it...“watch the game tape”. We do. And that is our focus. We’ll leave the obsession with 40 times and “climbing the draft board” stuff to those that enjoy it. The site has a bit of a plain look for a reason. Matt and I are focused on content, not style. We’d rather study game tape than new design ideas from a website creator. At least until Jessica Alba has some ideas for us. --------------------------------------------- About our scouting process… We build up a prospect list in the summer.  This is made up of players that have played well as underclassmen and who have shown NFL ability.  We also will include players who could breakout as Seniors, but have only shown flashes of pro talent to that point in their careers.  We then evaluate players by watching games and studying game tapes.  We’re able to watch players from hundreds of schools and at all levels (I-A, I-AA, II, III, NAIA). We take notes on the players in as many games as possible. That way we get a good feel for how the prospect plays over the course of the season. The next part of the process is studying the all star games. This gives us a chance to see players in a different setting. In some cases, it really helps as we get to see small school players go up against top competition. Finally, there is the Scouting Combine and Pro Days. This is our least favorite part of the process. The prospects are tested for athletic ability. They do some positional drills, but you don’t want to put too much emphasis on what a guy does in while moving around in a pair of shorts as opposed to how he plays in games. After gathering all of this information, we come up with a final assessment for each player. We do not always agree on each prospect. Just like scouts and personnel people would do in an actual pre-Draft meeting held by an NFL team, we discuss players we disagree on. Each person gets a chance to make a compelling argument for why a player should be ranked higher or lower. In the end, we come up with player rankings that we’re comfortable with and we believe in. All information is the opinion of Scout. PHP-Nuke Copyright © 2005 by Francisco Burzi. This is free software, and you may redistribute it under the GPL. PHP-Nuke comes with absolutely no warranty, for details, see the license.