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INTRODUCING: Moneyballers 🎙️ This week, Dropback introduced our new podcast, learning from the brightest minds and emerging innovators in the new college front office. The goal? Equip GMs & ADs with the tools & tips to give elite teams a competitive edge. Episode 1 of our new short-form interview podcast dropped yesterday! Link in comments. #NIL #Sportstech #Moneyball #FrontOffice #Innovators

"Moneyballers: Inside the College Front Office" is the newest podcast by Dropback, learning from the innovators in college sports' new era. Episode 1 of Moneyballers is LIVE! Mit Winter is arguably the most prominent voice in the space. So fun to learn from him. Epic 1st episode--link in comments!

Team Dropback attended our first (of many to come…) #SBJIAF! Between all our demos with ADs/GMs—my biggest panel takeaways: • Athletic Departments are businesses, and ADs are the CEO: It’s no mistake that early every panel focused on generating new revenue and inventing processes for “managing the cap” • Start NOW: The best day to prepare for July 1 (Rev-Share) was yesterday. The only way schools will be ready for July 1 is assuming House v. NCAA is approved and proactively planning. The next six months is time for creativity, not bureaucracy • Hit the Reset Button: This moment is a blessing-in-disguise to hit the reset button. Old processes, old org charts, old tech—implementing rev-share is permission to reassess top-down, to provide a better experience for athlete & better business outcomes for the athletic department • “ROI on Rev Share” will be top priority post-July approval: better activation events via school and/or collective with signed athletes to recoup cost, optimization of $17-20M+ spend (likely range for P4 CFB across rev-share + collective), etc. • Beginning, not the end: Settlement lays the legal ground work for what’s inevitably going to happen: collective bargaining, and potentially athlete-as-employee. House v. NCAA isn’t the solution—it’s the first lap of the race to save college sports. Happy CFP season 👋

PFF and Dropback partnership powers winning decisions in college sports’ revenue-sharing era https://lnkd.in/gZQgr4Cn

Big day at Dropback. We're thrilled to announce our partnership with PFF. This strategic partnership enables GMs and coaches, for the first time, to translate their athlete evaluations (via PFF’s powerful data & analytics) into roster valuations—using Dropback’s innovative front office tech. Just in time for the offseason. Let's go! 🏆🚀

What a week. We started Dropback (YC W24) to bring to life the elite software that elite college teams deserve. And this week, I was so impressed with all the forward-thinking programs we had the opportunity to chat with. We’re just getting started. 🤫🫡

ICYMI: Dropback was featured in D1.Ticker, the largest newsletter in college athletics 🏆 "Dropback... aims to disrupt college sports and give athletic departments a competitive edge in scouting, roster creation, and player valuation" Thanks for the shoutout, D1.ticker!

“[TrueNU] is excited to [partner with Dropback] to prepare for the next iteration of NIL.” - Jacob Schmidt, Executive Director of TrueNU We’re excited to announce the Official NIL Collective of Northwestern as a Dropback Founding Partner. Read more about the partnership in the comments!

ICYMI: Dropback was featured in Sports Illustrated 🏆 "Meet Dropback: the New GM Software Ready to Disrupt College Athletics" Thanks to Noah Henderson at Sports Illustrated for the opportunity to share more about Dropback (YC W24)'s vision & growing list of Power 4 partners.

🏟️ Dropback (YC W24) is building the front office software for the future of college sports. In the new era of college athletics, teams must optimize rosters financially to remain competitive. Pro teams (NFL, NBA, MLB, etc.) have been doing this for years; they spend millions on in-house engineering departments and data gurus to construct rosters competitively within a budget. Now that college teams can compensate athletes, they’re evolving to think like the pros, too—yet today, they don’t have the tech to do it effectively. Enter Dropback. Major programs like Northwestern's TrueNU trust Dropback to value their athletes, manage team budgets, and build their most competitive roster. Congrats on the launch, Luke Bogus and Nick Siscoe! https://lnkd.in/gRxSwyib