Digital Food Concessions & Merchandise Sales – Improving the Fan Experience and Increasing Revenue

By: Ray Purpur Deputy Director of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation at Stanford University Stanford built a new football stadium in 2006. Improving the fan experience and increasing revenue were two of the many goals at the drawing table. In this…

Full StoryOctober 1, 2011

The Role of Alma Mater in Coach Selection and Performance – Men’s Basketball

To consider this question, we analyzed the final results of 629 coaching stints of coaches active in the last ten years – a stint being defined as one coach’s time as the head coach at a single school – with…

Full StorySeptember 13, 2011

Thought Leaders & Emerging Trends

The Win AD contracts library contains many thousands of contracts to support best practices drafting by your negotiating team and counsel, including compliance management in coach contracts. So we were very intrigued by Tom McMillen’s April 26, 2011 article in…

Full StoryAugust 29, 2011

Men’s Basketball Coaches’ Family Trees

When an assistant coach becomes a head coach, does he win more if he comes from a successful program? To consider this question, we analyzed the complete staffs of coaches who have reached the Final Four in the last decade…

Full StoryAugust 15, 2011

FBS Football – What Helps and Hurts Attendance Performance?

PART I – HISTORICAL ATTENDANCE First, let’s set a baseline by reviewing attendance for the past 11 FBS seasons (source NCAA attendance records). During that period, non-bowl home attendance in the aggregate is up ~ 500,000 fans to 5.3 million,…

Full StoryJuly 22, 2011

How Every D-I Athletic Director Can Benefit From IMG’s $100M ISP Purchase

BACKGROUND “I really think we’re on a path to building an incredible company that is truly national in scope and is one of the only portals of entry for national sponsorship and advertising in college sports.” IMG College President, Ben…

Full StoryJuly 8, 2011

Understanding Coaches’ Buyout

Win AD includes more than 21,000 coaches. With more than 20% of Division 1-A football Head Coaches being replaced each season (for various reasons), we reviewed contract language to benchmark buyout clauses. Here’s what we found: Of those coaches whose buyout clauses…

Full StoryJune 2, 2011

Winter Sports – Select Star Coaches

Kelly Graves’ Gonzaga squad have recorded all six of the school’s tournament wins in each of the past three years, and became the lowest seeded team ever to reach the Elite Eight with three of those victories this past tournament.…

Full StoryApril 3, 2011

Deferred Compensation – Analysis of Usage and Patterns

While buyouts sometimes can be tantamount to a transfer fee payable by the hiring school, deferred compensation is “money in the bank” for coaches, provided the requirements of the plan and the contract are met. If a coach leaves before…

Full StoryApril 5, 2010

Football Recruiting Performance