Insights.
Short, practical notes on program security, athlete safety and tradecraft. Each is something a director of operations could act on before the next game.
- Who works a buildingOctober 31, 2026Boosters, donors, vendors, media and the recruit's uncle: the people in a football facility because someone let them in, how a few of them collect, and the five building habits a staff can own for a season.
- What is already public about a playerOctober 31, 2026Twenty minutes, a telephone and no special access: how a stranger assembles an athlete's address, vehicle, family and schedule from sources that are each harmless on their own, and what a department can do about it without reading anyone's messages.
- What an engagement letter should say before a security firm walks into your buildingOctober 31, 2026Nine things an athletic department's counsel should find in the letter from any security or investigative firm, and the three that are missing most often: the named contact, the reporting rules, and the licenses.
- Five questions to ask before you pay for a sweepOctober 31, 2026Technical surveillance countermeasures is an unregulated market with a wide range of equipment and honesty. Five questions that separate an inspection from a performance, and the answers an athletic department should expect.
- Bowl week: the advance, day by dayOctober 31, 2026A bowl trip is the most exposed week of the season: the largest hotel, the longest stay, the most credentials in the building. What the advance does from the day the contract is signed to the morning the buses leave.
- A device plan for a coaching staffOctober 31, 2026The game plan lives on thirty telephones and tablets. Seven rules a staff will actually keep, the one scenario to rehearse, and what to do in the first hour after a device goes missing.
- What the NCAA's bettor-abuse study says, and what a program should do about itOctober 30, 2026The NCAA and Signify Group measured the online abuse aimed at college athletes in 2024 and again in 2025. The numbers, what they leave out, and a five-step response a football operations staff can run.
- The coaches' floor: a room-assignment protocol for road gamesOctober 30, 2026How to assign hotel rooms for the coaching staff on a road trip so the game plan stays in the building you are paying for. Keys, adjacency, the meeting room, and who knows the list.
- After the Michigan case: what a mid-major's signal plan should look like nowOctober 30, 2026The NCAA finished its first sign-stealing case in August 2025. What the penalties were, what helmet communication does and does not cover, and the four parts of a signal plan a Group of Five or FCS staff can run.
- The first hour after a sextortion messageOctober 27, 2026What an athlete, and the staff member they tell, should do in the first sixty minutes after a sextortion threat. Screenshot, stop, call.
- A road game OPSEC checklist for the operations staffOctober 20, 2026Twelve things a director of football operations can do before a road trip to keep the game plan, the coaches' conversations and the players' rooms out of reach.
- What a bug sweep can and cannot findOctober 13, 2026How to buy a technical surveillance countermeasures sweep without being sold a walk-through: the equipment that matters, the questions to ask, and when a sweep is the wrong purchase.
Twenty minutes on a call. Then you decide.
What prompted it, the shape of the program, and whether an assessment or a single engagement is the right first step. A written proposal follows within three business days.