by Aydan Koyles, IUPUI Informatics graduate student After the longest regular season in NFL history, we have finally reached the best time of the NFL season: the playoffs. We spend most of the season discussing who deserves to make the postseason and now we finally know exactly which teams are in. There are a few… Read more »
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Sports Innovation Podcast Intercollegiate Athletics Series – Retired IU Vice President & Athletic Director Fred Glass
College athletics knows Fred Glass as the AD for 10+ years as an alumnus of Indiana University. But before IU, he had an incredibly successful career in government working for a mayor, a governor, a senator, and a president. Glass spearheaded a project for Indianapolis to build Lucas Oil Stadium and simultaneously create a massive… Read more »
Shouldn’t they be better at football? A look at college football teams that consistently underperform their expectations
by Aydan Koyles, IUPUI Informatics graduate student At every level of football, having the most talented players is often the quickest way to ensure success, and college football is no different. But yet, year after year, some teams diverge from expectations created by the level of talent on their roster. In this two part series,… Read more »
How do they keep doing this? A look at college football teams that consistently overperform expectations
by Aydan Koyles, IUPUI Informatics graduate student At every level of football, having the most talented players is often the quickest way to ensure success, and college football is no different. But yet, year after year, some teams diverge from expectations created by the level of talent on their roster. In this two part series,… Read more »
Sports Innovation Podcast Intercollegiate Athletics Series – Tennesse-Martin Chancellor Keith Carver
Dr. Keith Carver is the Chancellor at University of Tennessee at Martin and arguably the biggest Skyhawks fan on campus. Chancellor Carver covers several interesting and important topics across higher education and college athletics in this interview. The episode begins with an institutional profile and history lesson about UTM and their athletic nicknames. He explains… Read more »
Sports Innovation Podcast Intercollegiate Athletics Series – University of Cincinnati Athletic Director John Cunningham
John Cunningham became the Athletic Director at University of Cincinnati in December 2019 and is now leading the department into the Big 12 Conference. Cunningham talks about his compliance background fundamentally preparing him to become an AD from working directly with coaches in all sports and understanding the ins-and-outs of legislation and changes the industry… Read more »
Sports Innovation Podcast Intercollegiate Athletics Series – UNC Asheville Athletic Director Janet Cone
Janet Cone has been leading the UNC Asheville Bulldogs’ athletic department since 2004 and has impressively kept the small D1 liberal arts institution of the Big South financially in the black every year. In this conversation we focus on the challenges and opportunities with all the changes happening in college athletics today. UNC Asheville is… Read more »
Predicting Win Totals for the Second-Half of the NFL Season using Linear Regression
Photo by Anders Krøgh Jørgensen on Unsplash by Michael Black, IUPUI Informatics graduate student The NFL season is long, unpredictable, and full of many twists and turns. We overreact after Week One, re-evaluate everything we thought we knew after Week Four, and by Week Eight we realize we still know as little as we did when the season… Read more »
Sports Innovation Podcast Intercollegiate Athletics Series – New Mexico State University Athletic Director Mario Moccia
Mario Moccia is an alumnus and former standout baseball player at New Mexico State where he now serves as Athletic Director. Moccia starts by sharing how he took a different path to the AD chair than former Mizzou colleagues Ross Bjork (Texas A&M AD) and Chris Del Conte (Texas AD) by heading to an FCS… Read more »
Sports Innovation Podcast Intercollegiate Athletics Series – New Orleans Vice President & Athletic Director Tim Duncan
UNO Vice President of Athletics and Recreation Tim Duncan joined the Sports Innovation Podcast Intercollegiate Athletics Special Series and started the conversation with an institutional profile. Duncan is well-known as a speaker throughout the industry but even he acknowledges this interview brought different questions than he typically is asked. Duncan talks not just about creating… Read more »
