Rosenthal: The NCAA was created in response to Roosevelt's reform threat
“In response, they create the NCAA. Like, that is the beginning of the NCAA.”
Gilbert: NCAA schools will begin paying athletes directly next year under salary caps
“The interesting thing is next year is when the schools actually will start being able to pay the players directly. And there's like a salary cap of sorts.”
Dave Morin: College football and basketball teams will go private in 2025
“2025 will be the year that we see college football and basketball teams going private.”
Ainsworth: 2012 bat decertification caused a multi-million dollar loss for Marucci
“We did. We actually took them to a scrapyard and recycled them. There was nothing else we could do with them, and it was a multi-million dollar hit for a company that didn't have money.”
Ainsworth: Competitors' bats also failed lab tests, but only Marucci was decertified
“We then took bats from the field, sent them to the lab, and they were all over the limit, but nobody else was decertified but us,”
Ainsworth: Competitors admitted targeting Marucci to slow its market share growth
“There's no question. We've had conversations with some of those other companies across, over the years, and they said, we could take some hits from some smaller companies, but what you guys did, y'all were taking so much market share, you know, we kind of had …”
Engage.co customers include the Miami Dolphins, Cleveland Browns, and PGA Tour
“And big customers like the dolphins, the Cleveland Browns, the NCAA, the PGA tour, but they've got some cool, cool customers.”
Simple Tools Beat Heavy Incumbent Software in New Markets
“I view it as in these markets, it's whoever builds this first simple, useful thing. We'll get a ton of adoption. And then it's a race between the people who tried to build the big valuable thing. And the group that got a bunch of adoption to go from small and …”
NCAA NIL Rules Will Spawn $50M Mega Sports Agents
“So I think you're going to find some super agents that come out of this, like this one rule change. There's some kid who's the next Ari gold. That's sitting on Kentucky's campus or Alabama's campus. That's going to end up being like worth 50, a hundred million…”
Parr: NCAA NIL rule changes will spawn niche athlete workout apps
“So what I think would, what I think is an easy opportunity is you're going to see loads of little pure sweats, which is like a really simple app that just has basketball workouts that you pay a hundred or 200 dollars a month or a year for. I have to imagine yo…”
Puri: NCAA NIL Back-Office Reporting Software Will Become Incredibly Valuable
“And so somebody who builds that back office sort of reporting tool, that underlying infrastructure layer that's going to become incredibly valuable. A way to think about that is like Carta or AngelList, like these underlying platforms that sit underneath the e…”
Puri: Direct salaries for college athletes are coming following NIL rulings
“So that's lifted, but it's not yet salaries for athletes, but that's coming because they've also passed the, there's also been a rule passed around the athlete themselves being able to monetize their name and likeness, you know, like, I'm in a college town in …”