How to Build a Modern CFB Front Office

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

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Split Zone Duo State is the newest startup FBS program. We've got our coach, but now we need a staff. Blueprint Sports head of analytics Parker Fleming joins the show to help Richard break down who to hire, and the roles that need filling, to build SZD State into a title contender.

For additional (free) listening on this topic, see our March 2024 episode: “The NFL-ification of college recruiting.”

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0:00.0	We're coming and we ain't backing down.
0:01.9	We don't need a bunch of cats in here.
0:03.4	Looking in the mirror.
0:04.5	Everybody just do your job.
0:06.7	You understand that?
0:07.7	Hey, will you shut up?
0:08.6	I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today.
0:11.1	Guys being dudes.
0:12.3	And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man.
0:14.7	Ah, fuck it.
0:16.2	Thank you, Lee.
0:17.4	Thank you to the Split Zone Duo subscribers. Folks, if I gave you an unlimited budget
0:23.9	and I put you anywhere in the country, and I said, start up a college football program,
0:31.6	mainly start up a college football front office. How would you go about doing that? I certainly am not smart enough to
0:39.5	answer that question, but I do know somebody who is. Parker Fleming at Stats of War on
0:45.9	Twitter, blue sky, red sky, wherever social media is sold. He is a recurring guest on the podcast.
0:55.3	This is the second time on the podcast.
0:57.0	He's head of analytics at Blueprint Sports, which is an NIL technology platform, among many other things.
1:05.1	Parker, welcome back to Split Zone Duo.
1:07.7	Man, thanks for having me.
1:09.2	Great to be here.
1:14.4	So the front office is all the rage now in, uh, in college football. Is that 50 years overdue? Sure. But, you know,
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