Our Mission
The Mission of the Big 60 Event is to provide College Exposure for the student athlete on a National Level. This is provided in two ways: First, the player will receive exposure on a National Level by way of our Livestream telecast with play by play announcers. Secondly, the participant will have all three of their games uploaded on to Youtube so they have “film” at their fingertips to provide for college coaches!
Since 2014 our event is now able to be viewed by college coaches from their office, back porch or while attending another event. The event is held at the nationally known Spooky Nook sports complex which is a second home for college coaches for recruiting.
Our team
MIke Gaffey
Director of the Big 60 College Exposure Shootouts
Mike Gaffey, the director of the Big 60 college exposure shootouts has coaching experience at the College Level as a Head Coach, Assistant Coach and a Camp and Clinic clinician/speaker. In his 5 year stint as a Head Coach at the Division 3 level at PSU Harrisburg the program won back to back NEAC titles (going from last place to first in three years). He was also the Head JV Coach at Alvernia University who made it to the NCAA Tournament second round in 2002-03 season.
In addition, Gaffey was the guest speaker in the Fall of 2012 at Coach Skerry's coaching clinic at Towson University. He also has worked at the Tom Izzo, Jim Boeheim and Mark Schmidt Division 1 Basketball Camps.
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Coach Gaffey is currently in his second season as head coach of the Mechanicsburg Wildcats, where he led them to a 19-9 season record, a 4th place finish in the district 3 playoffs and a trip to the 5A "sweet 16" after a huge upset over North Hills. He was named the 2022-23 All-Sentinel Boys Basketball Coach of the year and in May, he was honored with the Inagural Bill Gaffey Legendary Coach award at the Mr. PA Basketball Award Banquet.
Scott Gaffey
Assistant Director of the Big 60 College Exposure Shootouts
Scott Gaffey is the new Head Boys' Basketball Coach at Littlestown High School. Prior to being named the head coach at Littlestown, he served as the head coach of the Ephrata High School Boys Varsity team for four seasons. In the 2023-24 season, they achieved back to back winning seasons for only the third time since 1997 at Ephrata. Also, in the 2023-24 season, the Ephrata team was ranked No. 1 in the Lancaster-Lebanon league in points per game allowed team defense (46.8 ppg). Before coming to Ephrata, he was the youngest 6A Head Coach in the state of Pennsylvania at Mifflin County High School. Before becoming a Head Coach, he helped as staff at Manheim Central to lead their team to their first state playoff win in school history. Previous to that, he assisted at Bishop McDevitt and helped guide the their team to the P.I.A.A Elite 8. In high school, Gaffey attended Harrisburg Christian where he made 62 three point shots in one season and helped the team make the school’s first ever state playoff. He attended college at St. Bonaventure. Currently, he also directs the PAHOOPS AAU program in Ephrata and serves as the Assistant Director of the Big 60 College Exposure event held at Spooky Nook. At camp he runs the 2 ball station. He has also worked Division One Basketball Camps at Michigan State University, Syracuse University and St. Bonaventure University.
