The Long Game of Sports Leadership
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. Have five a treat for you. There's nothing bigger in America |
| 0:06.8 | for men and women for cross-generational from grandparents to parents to children than football. |
| 0:14.5 | And there's nothing bigger in football than bowl season. And a lot of people don't know |
| 0:20.4 | there's executives and front office executives, sponsors, |
| 0:23.5 | and an entire multi-billion dollar business behind bull season now. |
| 0:29.3 | And it takes great leaders, great executives, like Gary Stokin, president and chief |
| 0:34.8 | executive officers, officer of one of the biggest bulls of bowl season, |
| 0:40.8 | the Peach Bowl, Chick-fil-A's Peach Bowl. |
| 0:43.9 | Welcome, Gary, to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. |
| 0:47.2 | David, thanks so much for having us. |
| 0:50.2 | Now, you and I have been in this space for over 30 years, and we know the history, the legacy, |
| 0:56.0 | but things have changed quickly, |
| 0:58.0 | and the prominence under your leadership and tenure of the Peach Bowl |
| 1:02.0 | has grown exponentially. |
| 1:04.0 | And there's much more to doing the Peach Bowl than just the game itself. |
| 1:09.0 | There's an entire business model of so many different events, |
| 1:13.3 | branding, marketing, and media, not just traditional media, but now social media that are involved. |
| 1:19.4 | How have you kept up with the accelerated change that has happened over your prominence in the |
| 1:24.5 | Peach Bowl? Well, there's a couple of things I learned through the corporate side with Adidas and Converse and |
| 1:30.7 | from coaching at my home modern North Carolina State when I started my own sports marketing business |
| 1:36.8 | and I'm an old coach, so I like acronyms. And one of the acronyms I use is AIM, which is asset integrated management. |
| 1:46.7 | And I learned in working on the corporate side and then when I own my own sports marketing |
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