Todd Worly

High-caliber Sports Executive, Personnel Director, and Licensed Ohio Attorney with over 20 years of proven leadership in professional football front offices, elite talent evaluation, and strategic workforce architecture. A trusted personnel evaluator and media analyst who excels at translating complex data, diagnosing organizational talent needs, and leading high-performance personnel operations under intense public pressure. Expert at bridging sports personnel logistics with rigorous analytical frameworks to maximize organizational output.

Executive Director at HULA BOWL (2025-01 – Present)

• Roster Architecture: Direct the comprehensive talent scouting, selection, and roster construction for one of the nation's longest-running college football all-star properties.
• Workforce Leadership: Recruit, hire, and manage a matrixed network of nationwide area scouts and evaluation assistants, driving accountability and elite data production.
• Data Systems: Engineered a proprietary player-grading framework and critical factor matrix to standardize evaluation and predictive tracking across hundreds of draft-eligible seniors.
• Stakeholder Integration: Serve as the central business integrator across all internal verticals, managing seamless communications between coaching staffs, training groups, marketing, and equipment operations.
• Industry Liaison: Foster elite, high-value pipelines with NFL scouts, pro liaisons, sports agencies, and college head coaches to maximize player visibility and draft value.

Founder at DIFFERENCE MAKERS FOOTBALL SCHOOL (2025-01 – Present)

• Operational Launch: Built and scale a localized youth football development platform, creating individualized training programs, curriculum plans, and operational workflows.
• Client Management: Direct all stakeholder communications, providing analytical performance breakdowns and development trajectories directly to parents.

Midwest Regional Scout at WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS (CFL) (2024-01 – 2024-12)

• Talent Assessment: Conducted live and film-based evaluations of hundreds of elite college prospects across the Midwest to assign critical grading metrics and write detailed evaluation reports.
• NFL Roster Audits: Embedded within NFL training camps (Detroit, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland) to actively audit roster bubble talent and deliver live-action contingency reports.

Color Commentator (Football) at SPECTRUM / HILLIARD DARBY HS / UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE (2023-01 – Present)

• Multi-Network Delivery: Provide high-stakes, real-time live broadcast color commentary for high school and collegiate sports properties across networks, including Spectrum, Rock Entertainment Sports Network, University of Rio Grande platforms, and Hilliard Darby broadcasts.
• Advanced Game Analytics: Analyze extensive team game-film and personnel data pre-game to engineer comprehensive strengths/weaknesses blueprints, predicting tactical trends and player match-ups.

Senior US Scout at OTTAWA REDBLACKS (CFL) (2022-01 – 2024-12)

• Territory Ownership: Owned the entire five-state talent pipeline (OH, MI, IN, KY, WV), executing deep background research and live talent vetting on all draft-eligible seniors.
• NFL Camp Evaluation: Evaluated all roster bubble players live at NFL training camps to maintain an active, updated emergency signing board for the franchise.
• Source Networking: Developed an expansive, trust-based intelligence network consisting of college football staffs, athletic department personnel, and athlete representatives.

Midwest / Ohio Valley Area Scout at NFLPA COLLEGIATE BOWL (2021-01 – 2023-12)

• Talent Acquisition: Managed comprehensive background research, data aggregation, and live talent vetting across major athletic conferences (Big Ten, MAC, ACC, SEC and Big XII).
• Roster Commits: Successfully recruited invited premium talent to commit to the property prior to the game being discontinued in August 2023.

Manager of Scouting and Analytics at SEATTLE DRAGONS (XFL) (2019-01 – 2020-04)

• Draft Board Governance: Coordinated and compiled the master franchise draft board, executing heavy predictive modeling on hundreds of prospective pool players.
• Football Operations: Directly assisted executive leadership with front-office administration, opponent advance scouting, quality control pipelines, and logistics management.

Midwest / Ohio Valley Regional Scout at SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS (CFL) (2016-01 – 2019-12)

• Roster Architecture: Handled deep regional intelligence and player vetting that constructed the youngest roster in the CFL, culminating in an East Division Finals appearance (2017).
• Personnel Strategy: Monitored and analyzed pro free-agent markets, building agent relationships to optimize talent pipelines; organization secured the second-best record in the league and CFL Coach of the Year honors (2018).

Midwest / Ohio Valley Area Scout at NFLPA COLLEGIATE BOWL (2017-01 – 2018-12)

• Production Leader: Led all national area scouts in total player production for the 2018 NFL Draft pipeline; executed detailed school visits throughout the week across a multi-state region.

Director of Player Personnel and Football Administration at JACKSONVILLE SHARKS (AFL) (2015-01 – 2015-12)

• Roster Renovation: Executed high-leverage in-season talent recruitment, signing key players (including AFL Rookie of the Year Greg Reid) to catalyze an ArenaBowl championship appearance.
• Front-Office Governance: Handled all professional player contract processing, transaction compliance, and league payroll accounting, and assisted with team travel logistics and player housing agreements.

Recruiting Analyst / Publisher at 247SPORTS (VOICE OF THE HAWKEYES) (2011-01 – 2014-12)

• Market Intelligence: Dominated the regional market by breaking elite tier-1 recruiting news ahead of all direct competitors over 80% of the time.

Juris Doctor in Law – CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Bachelor of Arts in International Relations – COLLEGE OF WOOSTER