Sports Management Podcast

Release Date: 11-10-2025 00:30

Welcome to episode 216 of Sports Management Podcast.

Today's guest is Danny Davis, founder & CEO of Recon Sports - a platform helping college football teams use data and AI to build smarter rosters and develop elite athletes.

We spoke about: 

  • The use of athlete data in sports
  • The risks of operating in college sports
  • How military experience shaped his entrepreneurial mindset
  • The mindset shift from Army officer to entrepreneur
  • How he invested 10,000 hours to master his craft

And much more! 

 

Time stamps: 

00:01 Intro
00:26  What Recon Sports does - syncing athlete data
01:22  Internal vs external data and identifying future stars
02:40  The hundreds of metrics collected across programs
04:15  The original idea: from high school analytics to college innovation
05:43  First client discovery and go-to-market process
07:02  Biggest challenge - scaling himself and training others
09:03  AI, digital twins, and the next frontier of sports analytics
11:19  Why consolidating data is the foundation of AI success
12:01  The risks of operating in college sports
14:38  Expanding into aerospace and other verticals
18:27  How military experience shaped his entrepreneurial mindset
22:02  The mindset shift from Army officer to entrepreneur
26:57  How he invested 10,000 hours to master his craft
31:14  The value of mentorship and how to find great mentors
37:17  Overcoming rejection and separating vision from strategy
40:16  Advice for breaking into the sports industry
43:40 Outro

 

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