July 1st, student applications have profit off name, image, and lightning. Welcome back, everyone, to the NILSU Real Deal podcast. You know, I keep saying that, but we need to get our new artwork up here on the screen. But I'm so excited today because we were joined by Celine Mangan. She's the senior account executive at Altius Sports Partners, and she is my point of contact at Altius. As we've been introducing this podcast and giving you guys a little bit more insight on NILSU, I've told you guys about Altius and our education consultant and our partnership that we have and additionally the GM

program that we've recently introduced and so Altius is able to come on campus every few months

to be with us and educate our student athletes and we brought them in for GoTime 2.0 last

night so I'm excited to have Celine here this morning. Yeah yesterday was a fun event Taylor

excited to be here thank you for having us on it's been a fun two years and just looking forward to more that's come so much more to

come I feel like I mean if we look back over the last year and everything that we've

seen in the N IL landscape like do you did you envision it going as quickly as it

did no I don't think anyone envisioned it going as quick as it did. Absolutely not. I mean, the conversations we were having with you, Cody, I, the whole working group of a year ago, fast forward to now. I don't think anyone envisioned us having a room full of hundreds of people and athletes last night facilitating deals. Right? I mean, it's so, it's so crazy. I feel like that's the most common question I get is like,

did you see NIL being where it is today a year ago? And I'm like, no. The conversation was so

different. But it's crazy to just see everything that we've done. But share with the group or the

viewers, the listeners, a little bit more about our partnership and kind of explain a

little bit more in depth about what you guys do. Yeah, so as Taylor mentioned, Altius is a consulting

firm, advisory firm that works in the new era of college sports. LSU was one of our first clients.

We had Texas, LSU, and South Carolina, and now we have over 35 schools across the entire country

in Division I. What our goal is and our role

with LSU is to work with all constituents involved in the ecosystem of college sports,

all the way from senior level administration to incredible people like Taylor, to student

athletes, coaches, and even people like businesses in the local community of how do you,

not just own this new landscape, but embrace

it and take advantage of it and maximize it for everyone involved in it.

Awesome.

It's really been so beneficial to us at LSU to have this partnership with Altius because,

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