MIKE TALBOTT

Played high school basketball at Bartlett Yancey High School in Yanceyville, North Carolina in the 70's. Entered Middle Tennessee State University in the fall of 1974 and roomed with my high school All-American teammate Sleepy Taylor. While at MTSU coaches thanks to Sleepy and fortunately, for me, they asked me to be a student assistant basketball coach. So from 1976 to 1978 I learned about scouting services and college basketball recruiting.

I joined the army in August of 1984 and ran sports programs at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York and at Fort Greely, Alaska until 1987, when I again became assistant basketball coach at Bartlett Yancey.  While assistant basketball coach at Bartlett Yancey, under my former high school basketball and baseball coach Lindsey Page, beginning in 1987 I also coached AAU basketball.  In 1995, after attending the AAU17U national tournament at Wake Forest University, I decided to start my scouting service.