redbird,
Quick question....you said there are no such things as college scouts, and I always thought the same. However, last year I was at a game locally where there was a guy sitting with the rest of the scouts and he was wearing Georgia Tech gear (if I remember correctly). This was during the meat of the baseball season, and the guy didn't look like a coach to me. But he was definitely scouting (he had the radar gun and all!)
Is that just someone locally who the coaches at the school trust? Is it just a pro scout who possibly went to the school? I'm sure the guy can't be paid, but are there unofficial scouts like this? This one in particular struck me as odd, because GT wouldn't really need to send someone this far to look at players considering that they have East Cobb in their backyard where most of the player's they're likely to recruit will pass through anyway.