The Texans’ assistant director of player personnel and college scouting director has taken the long road, literally, to his place in the NFL.
James Liipfert at training camp with his wife Lacy, whom he met during a scouting trip, and their two children, James IV and CampbellHe’s spent thousands of hours more on the road. Sometimes a Tim Ferriss self-help podcast harmonized with the hum of the highway. The blend formed a personalized baseline supporting the soundtrack beneath the life of an NFL scout.The odometer offered a paradox.
Liipfert’s 14-year climb has spanned both New England and Houston and yielded an official title — Texans’ assistant director of player personnel and college scouting director — that’s almost as long as those old Texas roads. As the No. 2 executive behind general manager Nick Caserio, Liipfert is familiar with the questions that run through the minds of the scouts he now manages.
“He thought the jacket is what made him official,” says Jean-Mary, who now coaches linebackers at the University of Tennessee. Scouting assistants were basically glorified interns, Stewart says, the entry-level “slappy’s” who’d spend a year or two doing grunt work before graduating to scout college players or professional players and so on. Theirs were the remedial tasks. They’d grab the coffee. They’d clean out the paper jams in the copy machine. They’d pick up and file faxes from agents that said their clients were available to schedule for workouts.
“He said, ‘I want to thank you for having that discussion with me, because you were real with me. I was headed down the wrong path, and you straightened me back up, and I never wanted to have a conversation like that with you or anybody else in that position ever again.’”
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