Most families are working hard on the wrong thing.
Blueprint shows you where you stand, what's holding the number down, and the order to fix it.
DM "BLUEPRINT."
All development is NOT equal.
Athletic development builds the tools.
Technical development builds the skill.
Expression development determines whether you can actually use it when the game gets chaotic.
Youth sports sells a lot of activity disguised as development..
Everyone in this process has a reason to lie. We don't.
Four scores. What they're worth, what the name is worth, where the leverage is, and
where they actually stand.
DM "BLUEPRINT."
Denver gave Russell Wilson a $245M extension before he'd taken a snap.
Two years later, they ate $85M in dead money to move on.
An ACL tear can create the same problem more quietly: the school, insurer, lender, and athlete all lose something different.
Sports price the upside.
Who’s underwriting the downside?
The higher you climb, the worse your information gets.
People protect jobs.
Peers protect relationships.
Teams protect themselves.
Every executive needs someone with no incentive to agree with them.
At the top, truth is risk management.
@LIGSportsintel
If you want to write a bestselling book, you have to write on the bad days.
Same goes for your sports career.
The great days don’t build the whole picture.
Fill in the pixels..