CSS Announces Partnership with Extra Points to Expand Data and Analysis

College Sports Solutions is excited to announce a new partnership with Extra Points, a leading source of information and analysis on college sports.

This non-exclusive partnership will make data and documents from the Extra Points Library available for all CSS projects. CSS will also share documents from previous consulting projects with the Extra Points Library, which will be accessible to all EPL users.

What this partnership will look like

CSS’s team, led by founder Jeff Schemmel, former San Diego State athletic director and longtime college sports industry expert, will leverage the EPL to assist with benchmarking, executive searches, sport sponsorship studies, and other athletic department and conference projects. Drawing from a team that includes former ADs, marketing experts, sports lawyers and other professionals, CSS is well-positioned to make EPL’s data actionable.

CSS consultant Kristi Dosh will be spearheading new projects arising from this partnership. Kristi is an attorney who founded Business of College Sports® in 2010 and has written two books on the industry. Combining her experience and research with the Extra Points Library, Kristi will help schools and conferences access the information and insights they need to make informed decisions in the quickly changing landscape of college athletics.

Examples of those projects include a conference affiliation and football feasibility study for Wichita State, an operational review of UConn athletics, and the Big West Conference commissioner search that resulted in the hire of Dan Butterly.

For folks that would like to meet all of us in person, we’ll be holding a Happy Hour on Wednesday (Jan 14) evening at the NCAA Convention. Specific details to come soon, but mark your calendars now!

How will the Extra Points Library enhance CSS’s consulting projects?

The Extra Points Library is a database that now includes more than 9,000 documents. That includes hundreds of itemized athletic department budgets, vendor contracts, coach contracts, GM contracts, and much more. Extra Points has spent time and energy building the database because they think this information, when organized correctly, can improve academic research, newsroom coverage and athletic department decision-making.

By leveraging this incredible resource, CSS will be able to help athletic departments, conference offices, and others in the college athletics space make educated decisions with the most up-to-date information available.

“We are thrilled about this new partnership with Matt Brown and Extra Points.” adds Schemmel. “This will expand our ability to scrutinize the marketplace and provide our clients with the best analysis and recommendations as they look for ways to achieve their financial goals and become more efficient in their operations. Extra Points Library has become the very best source of critical data in college athletics, and we can now take that data and help conferences and universities plan effective strategies to maximize their returns.”

We all believe this means CSS will get better and Extra Points Library will get better. And that’s what we’re trying to do. Help things get better.

Interested in chatting with us about a project? Contact us here.