Sarkisian leaving?

[jj22]

https://www.bengals.com/news/christian-sarkisian-general-manager-northwestern-athletics

Or 2 left.

[THE PISTONS]

'But his life took a big turn through Cincinnati when Duke Tobin hired him in 2018. Like he does with his other scouts, Tobin didn't blink in giving him large areas to scout in college, or divisions to scout in the league (AFC North or NFC South), as well as big projects to research.

For example, the trade value chart. Sarkisian teamed with Caroline Blackburn, senior manager of digital strategy, and Sam Francis, football data analyst, to create it, and he oversaw it during the draft.'


https://www.bengals.com/news/christian-sarkisian-general-manager-northwestern-athletics


I'm pretty sure these are all over the Internet.

[Soonerpeace]

Looked for this on here didn’t see it.

Sources: Northwestern is set to hire Cincinnati Bengals scout Christian Sarkisian as the athletic department’s new general manager. He’ll oversee all aspects of Northwestern’s salary cap, with his emphasis being on football. pic.twitter.com/NWZTYePAbU

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) May 13, 2025

[*psychdoctor*]

(Yesterday, 04:00 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: Looked for this on here didn’t see it.

Sources: Northwestern is set to hire Cincinnati Bengals scout Christian Sarkisian as the athletic department’s new general manager. He’ll oversee all aspects of Northwestern’s salary cap, with his emphasis being on football. pic.twitter.com/NWZTYePAbU

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) May 13, 2025

It is all over twitter.  Seems like a big deal 

[HarleyDog]

We have scouts?

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(11 hours ago)HarleyDog Wrote: We have scouts?

We just lost 25% of them.

[*pally*]

(11 hours ago)HarleyDog Wrote: We have scouts?

we did...but now he's gone

[BenZoo2]

(11 hours ago)HarleyDog Wrote: We have scouts?

You misspelled had.

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

Maybe we will hire more scouts after this. Hope so, need some more minds, scouting isn't like coaching where too many minds can hurt you.

[BFritz21]

(10 hours ago)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Maybe we will hire more scouts after this. Hope so, need some more minds, scouting isn't like coaching where too many minds can hurt you.

I think the Blackburns would if Mike lets them, which who even knows how much say he has anymore.

It would be ironic because, while scouts are still important, it's a hell of a lot easier now with so many highlights and everything online that it's so much easier to find guys now.

[George Cantstandya]

(10 hours ago)BFritz21 Wrote: I think the Blackburns would if Mike lets them, which who even knows how much say he has anymore.

It would be ironic because, while scouts are still important, it's a hell of a lot easier now with so many highlights and everything online that it's so much easier to find guys now.

Even with all the new technology and access to data I'm of the opinion the Bengals can still use more help in the scouting department as opposed to less. 

[Nepa]

(Yesterday, 04:00 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: Looked for this on here didn’t see it.
***

JJ22 made a thread, but the title was so obscure, albeit witty ("and then there was 1"), that one would have to open it and click on the link to realize that it was about Sarkisian leaving.

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

(10 hours ago)BFritz21 Wrote: I think the Blackburns would if Mike lets them, which who even knows how much say he has anymore.

It would be ironic because, while scouts are still important, it's a hell of a lot easier now with so many highlights and everything online that it's so much easier to find guys now.

Yeah, it easier than it used to be, but we still could get a lot better at scouting. Might be our biggest problem. We miss on a lot of picks.

A lot more than say the Eagles, Chiefs and Ravens. I think Mikey Boy still signs off on everything but he doesn't have near as much say as he used to.

Have to at the very least replace Sarkisian.

(9 hours ago)George Cantstandya Wrote: Even with all the new technology and access to data I'm of the opinion the Bengals can still use more help in the scouting department as opposed to less. 

Truth.

(9 hours ago)Nepa Wrote: JJ22 made a thread, but the title was so obscure, albeit witty ("and then there was 1"), that one would have to open it and click on the link to realize that it was about Sarkisian leaving.

True, didn't know what that thread was about. Don't like to have to click on some random link to know.

[StoneTheCrow]

Local high school sports in a somewhat rural area have more scouts for girl’s softball than this crowd does. I’m not even joking.

[SunsetBengal]

I'd say that it's likely going to take 3 new scouts to carry the load that Christian was carrying. I guess old Scrooge McBengal is going to have to open up that wallet and expand the scouting department..

[*bfine32*]

(11 hours ago)HarleyDog Wrote: We have scouts?

You accidentally put an s at the end of that...


See, I can be funny too. 

[BFritz21]

(9 hours ago)George Cantstandya Wrote: Even with all the new technology and access to data I'm of the opinion the Bengals can still use more help in the scouting department as opposed to less. 

I definitely agree that more is still better but I’m just saying that it’s a lot easier than having to have a bunch of scouts looking for small school guys, sleepers, finding out what kind of character a kid has (still a lot easier to do in person), finding out a kid’s practice habits, and a lot of other factors that it used to be when you’d have to have scouts reading lots of papers and traveling all over just to get every detail that could potentially impact a player’s draft stock.

[HarleyDog]

(8 hours ago)bfine32 Wrote: You accidentally put an s at the end of that...


See, I can be funny too. 

I was being proactive in hoping we actually had scouts? Now, I know we only had 1? And then he's gone? My glass just turned half empty.