#216 How Data is Changing College Football | Danny Davis, CEO of Recon Sports

Welcome to episode 216 of Sports Management Podcast.

Today's guest is Danny Davis, founder & CEO of Recon Sports - a platform helping college football teams use data and AI to build smarter rosters and develop elite athletes.

We spoke about:?

• The use of athlete data in sports
• The risks of operating in college sports
• How military experience shaped his entrepreneurial mindset
• The mindset shift from Army officer to entrepreneur
• How he invested 10,000 hours to master his craft
  
  

And much more!?

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Time stamps:?

00:01 Intro
00:26? What Recon Sports does - syncing athlete data
01:22? Internal vs external data and identifying future stars
02:40? The hundreds of metrics collected across programs
04:15? The original idea: from high school analytics to college innovation
05:43? First client discovery and go-to-market process
07:02? Biggest challenge - scaling himself and training others
09:03? AI, digital twins, and the next frontier of sports analytics
11:19? Why consolidating data is the foundation of AI success
12:01? The risks of operating in college sports
14:38? Expanding into aerospace and other verticals
18:27? How military experience shaped his entrepreneurial mindset
22:02? The mindset shift from Army officer to entrepreneur
26:57? How he invested 10,000 hours to master his craft
31:14? The value of mentorship and how to find great mentors
37:17? Overcoming rejection and separating vision from strategy
40:16? Advice for breaking into the sports industry
43:40 Outro

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