Coaching staff tradecraft.
Keeping a game plan inside the building, in a season lived in hotels and on buses.
Smilodon runs a half-day or full-day tradecraft session for a college coaching staff and football operations, on campus, from $5,000 per day. The staff leaves with a signed device checklist, a written signal-protection plan and five building habits owned by the director of operations.
- Format
- Half day or full day, on campus
- Audience
- Coaches, operations, graduate assistants, equipment staff
- From
- $5,000 per day
- Deliverable
- A one-page device checklist and a written signal protection plan
What the engagement covers.
A half-day or full-day session for the coaching staff and football operations. The material is professional tradecraft, reduced to what a staff will actually practice during a season.
- Signal protection: how signals are actually stolen, and how to make stealing them expensive.
- Telephone and tablet discipline for people who live in hotels and on buses.
- What a leak looks like from inside, and the three habits that produce most of them.
- How recruiters, boosters and media work a building, and how to be courteous without being useful.
- A short exercise: what a rival could learn about this staff in an afternoon.
Asked about this one.
How long is the session, and who attends?
A half day or a full day, on campus, for coaches, football operations, graduate assistants and equipment staff. The full day adds an afternoon exercise against the staff's own building.
Is this a lecture?
No. Each module ends with something the staff drafts itself: the signal-protection plan, the device checklist, the building habits. It is photographed and handed over before the session ends.
Will the firm tell us our signals are compromised?
The firm teaches how signals are stolen and how to make stealing them expensive. Whether a particular signal system is exposed is a question for the assessment, where the game-day plan is observed if the calendar allows.
Read before the call.
- A device plan for a coaching staffInsightThe 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.
- Who works a buildingInsightBoosters, 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.
- After the Michigan case: what a mid-major's signal plan should look like nowInsightThe 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.
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.