OTB: 1-on-1 with The Battle’s End CEO Ingram Smith

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🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Battle’s End, the collective spearheading efforts in player retention and NIL opportunities for Florida State football players, recently surpassed 1,000 members. TBE CEO Ingram Smith joins On The Bench to go over the collective’s progress, its goal for further growth, the origin behind finding unhidden value of player retention, and more. Get insight into the way the vitally important collective runs, and stick around for talk about bad lighting, smokey whiskey, and keeping promises. You can subscribe to On The Bench, X’s and Noles, and Beyond The Bench on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify. As always, five-star reviews and comments on Apple Podcasts are appreciated! Also, you can watch the show on YouTube now. We'll do live streams as well, and you can get notifications on when we're live by subscribing to our YouTube channel. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to On the Bench. For this episode, I am joined by friend of the show,
0:23.0	friend of myself. That's the CEO of Battlesend, host of the Noelcast. I'm
0:28.0	a man who wears many hats these days, Ingram Smith, Ingram. Welcome to On the Bench again.
0:32.0	Thank you, Brendan. Great to be back on with you. I've certainly been fortunate to join
0:37.0	a couple of times over the years. Remember doing a pandemic show. Remember doing a
0:44.0	rather infamous recruiting show and always great to be able to jump back in with
0:50.0	a new Zach or Chris. The infamous show, I don't know if we could talk about that person
0:57.0	anymore of what happened, but I thought about it like an hour ago. I was actually
1:01.0	cleaning the bathroom fittingly enough while thinking about that episode and what a
1:06.0	day that was and was thankful to have you there because you were a calming presence
1:10.0	and otherwise chaotic day. That was a well day. A long time to be alive.
1:15.0	Things are much better now in the world of Florida State. FSU is 7-0 as it gets
1:20.0	ready to play Wake Forest. Curtains going well. Just the program in general
1:26.0	athletic department, football program. Everything seems to lock step in a really good spot.
1:31.0	In the Battlesend, you know, part of the football program success, player attention,
1:36.0	opportunities for players. You get to see guys and commercials, things like that.
1:41.0	That's where this collective is really made its bones and has been helping out a ton there.
1:45.0	So before we get going to some of the things that have been happening at TV recently in
1:48.0	room, I want to get a general, an idea. You've talked about this before at our show
1:54.0	other shows like that. You were a kid basically subscribing to recruiting
1:59.0	magazines and things like that. I always found that interesting that we all have our
2:03.0	ways of we kind of fall in love with this quirky sport and specifically like the recruiting
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