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Travis Smith

@HigherEdAD

Love the Lord your God w/ all your heart & with all your soul & w/ all your strength. Rethinking How Athletic Directors are Studied, Prepared, and Hired w/ HEA.

Indianapolis, IN Katılım Ağustos 2025
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Travis Smith@HigherEdAD·
My shortlists for Toledo, Kentucky, Oregon State and Wisconsin. I try to base these names off reality (contracts), trends and situational needs of the institutions. I do not use sources for these names and no one has influenced me to mention their names. youtu.be/nCM0o4npfQU?si…
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@JoshPateCFB “You don’t really want responsibility until you’re ready for it” - Coach Cignetti’s dad
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Josh Pate@JoshPateCFB·
I could listen to Curt Cignetti tell the story of the Penn State game a million times
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Travis Smith@HigherEdAD·
Lots of new position changes and reconfiguration going on. I asked @EddieNunezAD how he assessed Houston senior staff when he arrived two years ago before making changes now.
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HEA Road Trip to TX has been fun but time to make the long trek back to Indy. Decided to change states/route. Going to grab video of schools I pass. First up will be a stop by UL Monroe. @SJTuohy if you can leave stadium lights on for me around 9:45 tonight I’d appreciate it.
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Travis Smith@HigherEdAD·
Now that he’s been the Mean Green Athletic Director for over 3 years, Jared Mosley is a great case study in what a successful internal candidate to the AD chair can look like. Thanks to Jared for hosting me on the Higher Ed Athletics Road Trip.
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Travis Smith@HigherEdAD·
Asked Tulsa Athletic Director Justin Moore how he thinks the FBS AD position has and will continue to evolve
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Travis Smith@HigherEdAD·
What a great lunch getting to know Baylor AD @DougMcNameeBU on my road trip. This work trip will be turning into a tourist visit for the next 2-3 hours in Waco. @chipgaines would be happy that Doug and I put our cell phones in the wall pouches for the whole hour.
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Travis Smith@HigherEdAD·
@davidsenra I was driving so did audio - I gotta rewatch on YouTube to take notes. Lots of great advice within the hilarious comments and profanity lol
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David Senra@davidsenra·
Dana White’s response to being criticized for using AI: “Why don't you just shut the fuck up and watch the fights? Why do you care what we're doing technology-wise? We still have to hire people to do this stuff. I'm not downstairs doing the fucking AI shit. We hire people that are doing it. AI is the future. It's coming. It’s here right now and we’re in.”
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My conversation with @danawhite, president and CEO of the @UFC. 0:00 Founders Are the Best Storytellers 1:04 Buying the UFC for $2M 2:51 Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain 7:58 One Good Night's Sleep and "Fuck It, Let's Keep Going" 10:53 The Ultimate Fighter: A $10M Bet-It-All Moment 13:12 The Napkin Deal With Spike TV 22:00 Leaving Spike TV and the Phil Duman Story 28:24 First Event Profitable: What He Does Differently Now 32:30 Why Dana Sits Ringside Watching a Screen 34:07 Building a Team That Can Read His Mind 45:10 "Who the Fuck Are You and What Have You Done?" 51:55 Selling the UFC for $4+ Billion 57:32 Not Cutting a Single Employee During COVID 1:03:30 Firing a Sponsor Who Told Him How to Vote 1:07:45 There Is No Plan B 1:09:00 Joe Rogan: Doing the First 12 Fights for Free 1:12:37 Loyalty Is the Most Important Thing Includes paid partnerships.

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Travis Smith@HigherEdAD·
Wondering if I could convince my wife to move to Texas. This state is awesome.
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Travis Smith@HigherEdAD·
Critical. Urgent. Important. I visited with TCU Athletic Director Mike Buddie today and asked him to expand on filtering daily life as an AD. College athletics is a decision sport. Thank you to AD Vantage and PILYTIX for sponsoring this trip.
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Travis Smith@HigherEdAD·
@ClayTravis I won the natty with IU football several times on early versions of the NCAA Football video game way back in high school (easy mode). EA should add White House visit to the game (they wont)
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Clay Travis@ClayTravis·
What odds could you have gotten in 2012 on President Donald Trump welcomes the national champion Indiana Hoosiers football team to the White House? 500k to 1, 1 million to 1?
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@HavenFields That’s awesome! My 10 year old started pitching this year and loves it. It sure takes a brave kid to step up on the mound
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Haven Fields, Sr.@HavenFields·
As a father, I’m always excited when my boys are having fun in anything they are doing. Sports teach us so much. How to compete, be a great teammate and what adversity looks like to name a few. I was so proud of this kid. What a night on the mound - 10 strikeouts in 4 innings!
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I may be the only person other than @mcuban with an IU hat in the DFW, but proudly wearing it while in town on this Higher Ed Athletics podcast road trip
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Chris Koerner
Chris Koerner@mhp_guy·
This guy makes six figures driving people across a bridge they're too scared to drive over themselves. He charges $40 cash. 10 to 30 clients a day. Some have been paying him daily for years. He meets them at a truck weigh station, hops in their car, drives them across in four minutes, and gets driven back by his assistant to do it again. The alternative route takes four hours through Baltimore. Here's what's wild... and possibly a little concerning: He said Airline pilots have used his service. His wife even makes custom eye masks that say "I hate this bridge." Steven Eskew has been running this business for years and has made tens of thousands of trips. I'll let you do that math. There's a business for everything. I promise you.
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Travis Smith@HigherEdAD·
I asked Oral Roberts AD Tim Johnson his advice for someone looking to become a Deputy AD somewhere, from the POV of an AD that has recently launched 2 of his past deputies into D1 AD jobs.
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Ricky Sandler is still my top outside candidate for Wisconsin. If he wasn’t a candidate I feel like he’d be on the search committee. I said his name even before he closed his Capital business. If industry hire? Dickey or Cunningham. CSA placed both of them in current jobs, too.
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