Threat assessment and response.
A named person who answers within the hour, and a process that begins before the second message arrives.
Under a season retainer from $5,000 per month, Smilodon provides a number that is answered within the hour during the season, a person who is accountable, and a process that begins before the second message arrives: triage of whether a threat is credible and new, documentation that holds with campus police and the platform, liaison with law enforcement, takedowns and withdrawal of exposed information, and a written after-action note.
- Format
- Season retainer with a response line
- Response
- Within the hour during the season
- From
- $5,000 per month
- Includes
- Quarterly refresh of the assessment; a set number of sweeps or travel advances
What the engagement covers.
Most departments discover they have no plan on the night they need one. The retainer provides a number that is answered, a person who is accountable, and a process that begins within the hour.
- Triage: whether the threat is credible, whether it is new, and whether it is the same individual as before.
- Documentation that holds with campus police, local police and the platform.
- Liaison with law enforcement, so the coach is not the one explaining it.
- The digital dimension: identifying the account, withdrawing exposed information, takedowns.
- A written after-action note for the department, with recommended changes.
Asked about this one.
Who calls the response line?
Whoever the department names: usually the director of operations, a position coach or the athletic trainer the player told. The player does not need to call the firm directly.
Does the firm replace campus police?
No. Campus police own the response to a crime and the law. The firm triages, documents in a form they can use, and makes the liaison so the coach is not the one explaining it.
What else does the retainer include?
A quarterly refresh of the assessment and a set number of sweeps or travel advances, designated by the department. The retainer follows the football calendar.
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 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.
- 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.
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.