Luke Bogus
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CEO @DropbackHQ: front office tech for college sports | Prev: @ycombinator, @microsoft, @hudl | My own opinions on: #NIL #GBR #RollJays
Durham, NC
Joined August 2009
NEW: Dropback is now available for free. Dozens of College GM’s use @DropbackHQ's “Moneyball” software daily (!) to build slot value strategies & apply custom predictive models to 100,000+ athletes. Now, you can level up your front office too: for free. 👇
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Two more thoughts: 1. This again proves that because people have fancy job titles doesnt mean they know what theyre doing 3. Stop telling me there's no money to pay players- when youre spending 80 million to get out of a stadium lease
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Are you a GM who was overpromised 'GM Tech' and looking to make a change pre-portal? Join 20+ GMs on Dropback by claiming your Free Account this Portal. DM me to onboard in <72hr, or learn more here 👇 https://t.co/BllVPXEvi4
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Next-gen ‘General Manager’ suite of software tools helps elite teams play Moneyball and build competitive rosters in the rev-share era. Dropback combines back office automations with front office...
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Among our many differentiators, the one I'm most proud of: we ship new features every single day. How so fast? GMs don't deal with a Customer Success Manager--they text me directly. As simple as this sounds... GMs tell us this is a massive change in pace against the other
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The only products that survive are ones that solve real problems daily. Nothing else matters--not even case study video slop & performative press releases can save you. That's why @DropbackHQ simply blocks out the noise & ship new features daily 🫡🚀
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It seems teams are blocking FOIA requests for athlete rev-share totals, citing “competitive harm” Yet, they’ll let the biggest NIL companies openly aggregate & share their data amongst competitors—and even publish in the NYT!—in broad daylight Make it make sense!
NEW: In first 3 months of House v. NCAA era, @CUBuffs spent $7.7M on athlete rev share and @UKAthletics spent $1.5M, per public records obtained by @Sportico. But the bigger story might be why @Huskers and others won’t reveal their totals. My column👇 https://t.co/i5vy41DJOC
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UNT’s General Manager, @rajesh_murti, with this banger: Evaluations 🤝 Valuation
Meet the 24-year-old GM helping North Texas take aim at the College Football Playoff Today we kick off our GM Spotlight, a weekly series of Q&A’s with college football general managers. First up: UNT’s Raj Murti, one of the youngest GMs in the sport 👇🏽 https://t.co/NOXWDUcoe6
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Roster limits and the salary cap just became codified today by the CSC 👇 Precise roster construction & financial forecasting has never been more important
More College Sports Commissioner news today: The CSC released a finalized version of its rules resulting from the House settlement and now codified into NCAA bylaw. Below is the five-page summary doc that was just released (More detailed version is available on CSC's website):
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This article takes a very good look at how roster building in men’s college basketball has changed. Teams have to be more strategic in how they fill their rosters than in the past. Especially with how they allocate their payroll.
Recruiting and roster management are much different than just a few years ago. The #Badgers, like many others now, are going to live and die by the portal, not high school recruiting. And sometimes, tough decisions have to be made. An in-depth look at how Greg Gard and
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Here’s to hoping your favorite team is on the right side of history 🤞
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True NIL is often the wrong solution to the real problem. It’s those who invest now in solving the real, hard problems: - intelligently allocate resources - manage spend within a finite cap That’ll reap the long-term rewards.
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NIL has its place, for sure: Athlete *wants* to be an influencer? Great. Colleges want to grow NIL departments to help athletes grow their personal brand? Very cool. But neither is an outcome to building championship caliber rosters.
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Investing in the wrong thing now (NIL infrastructure) may have short-term pleasure: getting more money to spend on players But “True NIL” is like putting lipstick on a pig. Too many teams are asking “how much can I spend. But great teams are asking, “how should I spend?”
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Third party NIL continues to be a temporary arbitrage to pay great players more $$ to come to your team. But blurring the lines of “NIL” and roster construction is so, so dangerous. “True NIL” may be short term gain. But it’s setting too many teams up for long term pain 🧵👇
As this article points out, despite the House settlement’s attempt there’s not a true salary cap in college athletics. Third party NIL $ is still often part of a player’s “package” from a school.
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@RyanQualtrics if you want to invest in a YC-backed sportstech co bringing turnkey front office software (Jazz-level analytics for decision-making) to college GMs that’s used by 20+ DI teams in <6mo… I know a guy 👋
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The Analytics 🐐 has spoken College sports is professional sports. And it’s time athletic departments make the same Front Offices investments as the Pros
At this rate, college payouts will surpass the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL combined. The NCAA is 100% professional sports now — just without investing in a proper front office 👀
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I find it hard to imagine Head Coaches having this much leverage in 5-10 years The capital allocators (GM's) and the recipients of said capital (athletes) will have a bigger seat at the table.
Three of top 4 buyouts in college sports have happened this cycle. -LSU (Kelly) $53M* -PSU (Franklin) $49M -UF (Napier) $21.4M -- -OK St (Gundy) $15M -Arky (Pittman) $9.3M -VT (Pry) $6.8M -UCLA (Foster) $6M -Ore. St. (Bray) $4M -UAB (Dilfer) $3M -CSU (Norvell) $1.5M *negotiating
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General Managers are becoming the most important role in college sports. GMs are not only important people on teams—but becoming the most important person across the entire athletic department. The financial investments in GMs make this clear 👇
The first @usatodaysports survey of Power Four conference football GM/front office staff is up and running. There are at least 13 such employees making $500,000 or more: https://t.co/Hwlnyb4RGh
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Listen to my full conversation with CJ, one of Season 2's most listened episodes, here 🎧👇 https://t.co/N6Bg1sGNKS
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In his new role as the Director of Salary Cap Management at Vanderbilt University, CJ shares insights into the importance of data analysis in football (even in his cap-centric role). He also reflects...
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Vanderbilt's off-the-field strategy has clearly led to on-the-field success Their Director of Salary Cap ( @CJOlsonFB ) describes how creative problem solving with the cap & roster construction can lead to building the most competitive team possible 👇
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Great insight into Clemson Baseball’s valuation process 👇 For Coach Bakich, seniority matters—and acknowledges the risks of blindly following “fair market value” Great values & process keep you disciplined in managing roster spend. Now, this applies to *every* rev share sport
Erik Bakich said Clemson decided to not offer a couple of top pitching transfers this offseason because they wanted to be paid more NIL than anyone on the roster. He explains why he told them “adios”:
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