RosterWatch Podcast Episode 123 - The Scouting Hustle with Eric Galko - January 11, 2019
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4.9 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Eric Galko is a professional football talent evaluator and entrepreneur. He is the owner of Optimum Scouting, an independent scouting service that has provided private evaluations to NFL and college teams, prospective agents, and various interested parties regarding NFL prospect projections over the last decade. He's served as Director of Personnel for numerous postseason college All-Star games, is an NFL insider for Stadium and a contributor to the Sporting News. In 2018, he accepted a position as Director of Personnel for the XFL. You can support the RosterWatch podcast - and get access to multiple bonus podcasts per week featuring Alex Dunlap, Byron Lambert, and the Trashman - with a PRO membership at RosterWatch.com. It is entirely due to the support of listeners like you that this is all possible and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the roster watch podcast. This is Alex Dunlap. Today I bring you my conversation with Eric |
| 0:06.6 | Galko. Eric Galko is a professional football talent evaluator and entrepreneur. He's the owner of |
| 0:12.9 | optimum scouting and independent scouting service that has provided private evaluations to NFL and |
| 0:16.9 | college teams, prospective agents, and various interested parties regarding NFL prospect |
| 0:21.5 | projections over the last decade. He served as director of personnel for numerous postseason |
| 0:25.9 | college all-star games. He's an NFL insider for stadium and a contributor to the sporting news. |
| 0:31.4 | In 2018, Galco accepted a position as director of personnel for the XFL. |
| 0:41.3 | He's a great friend of roster watch and our conversation is multifaceted. |
| 0:47.8 | We discuss his scouting experience and processes the XFL and its much anticipated 2020 launch, |
| 0:51.8 | Kyle Murray's NFL projection and the role of analytics in the always changing and ever competitive world of college football scouting. |
| 0:54.8 | You can find him on Twitter at Eric Galco, that's G-A-L-K-O, and at Optimum Scouting. |
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| 1:16.7 | You can also support the Roster Watch podcast if you really love it, |
| 1:20.5 | and you can get access to multiple bonus podcasts each week featuring me, |
| 1:24.5 | Byron Lambert, and The Trashman with a pro membership at Rosterwatch.com. |
| 1:28.3 | It's entirely due to the support of listeners like you that this is all possible, |
| 1:33.3 | and we thank you from the bottom of love our hearts. |
| 1:35.6 | Now on to the show with Eric Galko. The Ladies and gentlemen, Roster Watch Nation, welcome back to the epic Roster Watch podcast, brought to you by RosterWash.com. |
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