Staff

Michael is the Founder and Owner of East Preps LLC corporate and manages all corporate and functional aspects of the business  divisions. He founded the FBS Tropical Bowl to bring even more exposure to players from top Schools. Michael handles all contract negotiations and legal aspects of East Preps as well. He was licensed as an NFLPA Certified Contract Advisor until 2010 and helped build the East Preps Sports Management Division to prominence as they landed a significant amount of players in the NFL and now work with many premier NFL players. 

Michael is also the concept creator of East Preps Pro Combines, the “National Pro Day Scouting Combine” which helps Agents and Pro teams find the needle in the haystack type of players from small schools to sign. Michael not only administers the Bowl weekend but also works with the Genetics Athletics Combine Prep Training Program in Philadelphia at Aspiring Champion which is the Tropic Bowl Training Partner.  Michael is also a former Captain & All American football standout at Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) and attended Rutgers Law School. He is licensed to practice law in the state of New Jersey. Early in his law career he spent time as a staff attorney at one of Philadelphia’s largest corporate law firms, Pepper Hamilton LLP. He strives to make the Tropical Bowl a Top 5 Post Season NFL Scouted Bowl.

Ken Moll joins the Tropical Bowl staff as an Executive Consultant and handles all Tropic Bowl player measurements and is a liason for Scouts during Tropic Bowl weekend.. He handles Player Personnel consulting, assists NFL & CFL Scouts, and is also a Bowl liaison to agents and Media. Moll is the former Director of Player Personnel for the CFL’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Moll spent four years with ESPN as a Pro Scout. 

He has 13 years experience as a NFL Scout with the Jacksonville Jaguars from 1994-1998, the Cleveland Browns from 1998-2005 and 2 years as a combine scout. Ken Moll also has vast experience as a NFL Scout working the NFL National Scouting Combine from 2006 and 2010.  Moll worked for ESPN as a scout for Scout’s Inc and has been a football analyst locally in radio in the Louisville Market. Before his Pro Scouting experience, he spent 15 years as a collegiate coach, nine at Richmond and six at Louisville, his alma mater, where he played four years as a linebacker.

Jerry Hardaway brings his experience and expertise to the Tropical Bowl staff. Hardaway’s experience within the game of football varies from tight end coach to player personnel to NFL scout.

After his college playing career at Southern Illinois University in 1978, Hardaway took a job with Grambling State University and coached running backs, wide receivers, and special teams over a six year span. In addition to coaching at Grambling State, Hardaway was also the recruiting coordinator. In 1982, he received the GSU Coach of the Year award.

In 1984, Hardaway coached running backs at the University of California, where he helped the Bears become a national powerhouse. He was in charge of recruiting at California and rewarded for doing so with the “Recruiting Coach of the Year” award in 1984. In 1987, Hardaway took his skills of recruiting to the professional stage when he joined the Arizona Cardinals in 1987. He recruited football greats Anquan Boldin, Larry Fitzgerald, Thomas Jones, and Antrel Rolle.

• University of Memphis
• Grambling State
• University of California
• Arizona Cardinals
• Carolina Panthers

• Grambling State Coach of the Year (1982)
• University of California Recruiting Coach of the Year (1984)
• Fritz-Pollard NFL Scout of the Year
• Super Bowl Appearance: Arizona Cardinals (2009)

Andrew McGrath is the SPIRAL Tropical Bowl Head of Officials for our annual game played each January in Florida.

https://www.flncaafootballofficialscamp.com/

NFL’s Coach Mike Stock formerly of the Green Bay Packers Head Coached the FBS Tropical Bowl all-star National Team for 3 years from it's inception in 2016 to 2018. He remains on as a consultant to the Tropical Bowl President Michael Quartey Esq. In 1983 he coached the New Jersey Generals offensive backfield, including hall of fame running back Herschel Walker. He then returned to Notre Dame, where he coached wide receivers and running backs through 1986. From 1987 through 1991 he coached special teams, then wide receivers, and finally tight ends for the Cincinnati Bengals. From 1992 through 1994 he coached wide receivers at Ohio State. From 1995 through 2000 he was the special teams coach for the Kansas City Chiefs. From 2001 to 2003 he was the Washington Redskins special teams coach. In 2004 he was the special teams coach for the Saint Louis Rams. For the 2006 through 2010 seasons, he was Head Special Teams Coordinator for the Green Bay Packers.

NFL SPECIAL TEAMS COACH OF THE YEAR RUNNER UP – 2007 GREEN BAY

*NFL SPECIAL TEAMS COACH OF THE YEAR – 1997 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS