No Longer Credentialed

Another week, another damning article about working in sports, this time by AthleticDirectorU.com titled D1 Administrative Burnout, Exhaustion & Disengagement, Part 2: Qualitative Analysis , where many athletic department staffers, at all levels, express their dismay about working in the business. Many of the complaints are the same ones you have heard on our show.  So, we decided to bring in...

A prank that lived for over 10 years? Is that possible? It is indeed possible, and we have the mastermind behind a prank that had Boggs fooled for over a decade. Former colleague Ryan Schulz joins us this week to relive the moment and recounts how he pulled off the joke of the century (2:03), one that would probably still be going on if everyone still worked in the same office. We’ll also take a l...

We are honored and thrilled this week to share our conversation with Boggs’ graduate school buddy, Scott Fitzgerald, who recently started Purscial , a coach and support system for coaches, executives, and administrators who serve others in environments where performance matters. It’s like a caddy for coaches - someone in their corner to lighten the load and help them perform at their best. We dig...

A lot to get to this week on the podcast. Maybe next time an outlet tries to lift ideas from us, we’ll get cited.  After The Athletic decided to take our idea about ownership in college sports (2:49), we’ll examine their top-10 list of college football valuations - and where we think they made a big mistake. Either way, college presidents are seeing dollar signs. When will they be crazy enough to...

We’re back and better than ever.  In Episode 13, we talk about the World #1's stunning press conference that sent shockwaves through the golf world. We unpack his brutally honest revelations and share how his powerful message can transform your own life's journey, both at work and at home (4:59). Barca is Up To His Ears about the lunacy of higher ed and how universities are slapping on &qu...

Longtime college sports communicator Mark Cohen probably slid into your social media feeds a little while back. The 36-year veteran of the business was abruptly let go in a four-minute meeting with his new athletic director at TCU earlier this summer, and the tributes poured in from all areas of sports to pay tribute to Cohen and his massive influence on the Horned Frogs’ most recent successes. I’...

We’ve spent much of our time on this podcast speaking about the burnout associated with working in college sports and how it affected our personal and work lives. In this week’s episode, we speak to someone who has quantified our feelings into groundbreaking research. Dr. Matt Huml, an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati, teaches sport administration courses in the College of Educa...

In Episode 10 of  No Longer Credentialed , Barca is joined by special guest host Eric "Stooche" Jones, filling in while Boggs is on vacation. To mark the milestone 10th episode, Barca opens with a full Kenny Powers–style eulogy, declaring that Boggs now lives through him (0:30). Hell yeah, dude. Then it’s a five-alarm fire rant (4:30) aimed squarely at athletic directors, as Barca torche...

In our summer hodgepodge episode, we’ll give another run at HR and Leadership (2:35), we’ll recap our full Zombie AD lists from the House Settlement episode (20:07), and Barca is Up To His Ears about the current state of social media and wonders if social media influencers should be running the whole shabang (25:38). This week’s episode is once again sponsored by Never Getting Promoted and Find My...

In this episode, we take a look back at our over 40 years of experience working on the front lines in sports and reveal our top two players who have shocked us with their success in the professional ranks (2:35). This week’s episode is sponsored by a metatarsal and a robot (19:50). And while Boggs is concerned with all of the business aspects of men’s college basketball, he’s Up To His Ears about...

With the House Settlement finalized, we take a deep dive into the fallout of the agreement (2:39) and how it will impact the labor force in the industry (HINT: It’s a 5-alarm fire). We’ll also put on our ZombieAD hat and take a stab at ways to cut costs and raise revenue in these challenging times and introduce some ideas that college presidents surely have thought about. Is a major college footba...

We’re back for another edition of No Longer Credentialed. This week on the podcast, our “Sponsored By” segment goes from a 2-minute read to a 30-minute segment (3:07) that veers off into road travel etiquette, access to team rooms and our favorite meals on the road.   Boggs is Up To His Ears about the organizations that support the people who work in sports (32:55) and wonders if they do enough to...

In this episode of No Longer Credentialed, we’ll take in some listener feedback, take you inside the ropes of hosting and being around big events, both from the event and digital side, and Barca has some words of wisdom about HR and what they’re not.  The guys dive into some listener feedback from people in the industry (3:04) as we all commiserate over working in the business. Boggs talks about h...

We’re back with a new episode of No Longer Credentialed with a new game we call “What Would You Do?” where we address some important questions in the business. We’ll talk about social media schedule releases and fuddy-duds crushing fun vibes (5:57), athletes not talking to the media after losses and hard situations (11:25), social media boundaries (26:35) and whether we’d give our alma maters a di...

In Episode 3 of No Longer Credentialed, we dive into the Bill Belichick situation at North Carolina from a grizzled-veteran point of view ( ⁠2:22⁠ ), we hear from our financial backers who haven’t paid up yet (18:53) and we tackle a conversation a psychologist would love (20:17). Barca is Up To His Ears with newbies asking for raises only a few months into the job (58:10), and we ask for your stor...

In Episode 2 of No Longer Credentialed, we tackle the five suckiest jobs in sports ( 2:28 ) from two industry veterans. We also interview ticket office legend Eric “Stoosh” Jones ( 52:49 ), who tells us a doozy of a Christmas Day story, and after years of entertaining the masses on birthdays, he ranks his top three ice cream cakes. Finally, Andy is "Up To His Ears" about TV broadcast ass...

In this inaugural episode of No Longer Credentialed, longtime sports insiders Brandon Barca and Andy Boggs go through their Quick Hitters, including Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter’s jersey retirements (2:40), NIL madness and how it’s affected our viewing habits and the way we look at sports (8:06), as well as social media do’s and don’ts, with most places still concentrating on the don’ts (26:5...

Sports broke us. So we made a podcast instead of going to therapy. Join former sports professionals Brandon Barca and Andy Boggs as they examine the current world of sports through the lens of over 40 years of combined experience working in the industry. This… is No Longer Credentialed. We once had access. Now we have opinions.