Are College Sports on a Collision Course with Collective Bargaining?

It’s a common rallying cry to claim that college athletics is no more and athletes are now employees. I would argue that they always have been and agree in the sense that if you go by the simple IRS standard definition of “employee”, they still are today. If you have great control over the worker, […]
Cultivating Talent: An Old School Approach in a New Era of Sports

I get asked about “cultivating talent” a lot, especially after I use that phrase on stage. So I sat down and answered the question the way I’d answer it for anyone who asked me directly: what it actually means, and the process I’ve built around it. It’s nine phases, start to finish, and I walk […]