 college scouting in the year 2020 well breaking news it's official the ivy league will not play any sports in the fall semester including football the big 10 and pack 12 will cancel their football seasons tomorrow the acc the conference announcing it is going to play a 10 game conference schedule and Notre Dame is going to be included scc approved the 10 game conference only football schedule for the fall that begins on september 26 everything in 2020 is is going to be something different or something with an asterisk beside it for our process the root of it's the same identify players that can help our football team our evaluation process in a normal year always includes the prior year of tape so we've already looked at all these players off their junior tape or if it's a junior in those cases their sophomore tape at this point most of the division one schools have decided to come back and play this year so it looks like we will get some sort of 2020 ball tape that we will be able to evaluate it's mostly the lower levels the one double a's and below that have decided to go forward with some type of spring season so they're just going to have a smaller body of work to go off of the 2020 season but unfortunately that's that's what it is well I think it's always uncertainty that presents challenges we are creatures of habit in this business you know not just in scouting but coaching and playing as well and we've all had to change the way we we do our jobs in a normal year we'd be traveling monday through friday and then hitting games on saturday and then usually coming home on sunday monday the following week this year pretty much everything's from the house we're doing a lot of zoom meetings uh just meeting with coaches meeting with staff members then watching the tape from the house i'm not being able to be in person you know make those personal relationships with the coaching staff being able to watch a guy practice and see how he behaves and practice how he talks to teammates uh how how teammates respond to them i think that's the biggest difference you don't have those intricate details you usually get from putting your eyes on the player so home calls are much more important than they ever had been before it's important to have a relationship with coaches on staffs being able to call those guys anytime we have a question or concern about a prospect it's always been sitting down with a coach in his office you're at university of oklahoma and you watch film for four hours and and then you want to go pop into you know the receivers coach you want to sit down and and chat with him about a couple of the guys and you're able to do that and and maybe you've done it for six or seven years straight and he knows you and he's a friend of yours and um all of that stuff's uh out the window this year i would say some of the biggest challenges are just gathering some of the character information so we're doing these zoom calls obviously there's 32 teams on the call um so you're not getting as in depth as you might be uh when you're on canvas talking to some of your sources in person also just not being able to see these players in person we can hit games here and there um but it's not one of those things where we're seeing every single school everything is uncertain right now we think there's going to be a senior bull but we don't know um we think there's going to be a combine but we don't know we think the draft is going to take place as scheduled but we don't know so that's the whole rub this year is that we have to be constantly ready to change on the fly anytime we get new information i pull the guys in maybe we do a zoom call maybe we we're on a group text or i'd fire out on the email to them but we've got to make a lot of adjustments on the fly to make sure that we're able to see every single player and give them the attention that they need even though it may not be as hands-on as we'd prefer it's our job to to get it right no matter what the situation is and we're going to ultimately do whatever necessary to complete our evaluation process to the best of our abilities to help the Tennessee Titans on a football field