Athlete safety briefings.
What a stranger can already learn about a player, and what the player should do in the first hour.
Smilodon briefs a college roster for sixty to ninety minutes on sextortion, bettor harassment, impersonation and NIL fraud, doxxing and what to do in the first hour, from $3,000 per session. Every player leaves with the first-hour card, and a parents' edition is available on request.
- Format
- 60 to 90 minutes, team room
- Audience
- Whole roster, or by position group
- From
- $3,000 per session
- Deliverable
- The first-hour card; a parents' edition on request
What the engagement covers.
A team session of sixty to ninety minutes, written for athletes rather than for compliance officers. It is specific, it uses real cases, and it concludes with a card every player keeps.
- Sextortion: how it begins, how quickly it moves, and why payment never ends it.
- Bettor harassment after a poor performance, and why blocking is not the end of it.
- Impersonation, fraudulent agents, NIL fraud, synthetic media and false accounts.
- Doxxing: what is already public, how to withdraw it, and how to keep it withdrawn.
- The first hour: preserve, stop responding, report to a named person.
Departments that want the exposure addressed rather than only described may add quarterly open-source exposure checks on the roster, with removal of exposed personal information, reported to the department by category and severity only.
Asked about this one.
Does anything a player says in the briefing go in a report?
No. Nothing a player asks or says in the room is reported. The department receives a note of what was covered and nothing else.
Can the briefing be given by position group?
Yes. The whole roster at once in camp is most common; position groups or new arrivals through the year are the alternative. Transfers and freshmen should be briefed within a month of enrolling.
What happens after the briefing?
Departments that want the exposure addressed rather than only described add quarterly roster exposure checks, which remove what can be removed and report to the department by category and severity only.
Read before the call.
- The first hour after a sextortion messageInsightWhat an athlete, and the staff member they tell, should do in the first sixty minutes after a sextortion threat. Screenshot, stop, call.
- What is already public about a playerInsightTwenty 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 the NCAA's bettor-abuse study says, and what a program should do about itInsightThe 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.
Twenty minutes on a call. Then you decide.
What prompted it, the shape of the program, and whether this engagement or the assessment is the right first step. A written proposal follows within three business days.