A little update on a fun personal project. You'll be hearing a lot more from me on all things sports, sports tech & SaaS, human performance, sport science, and more on my new website. I don't have a subscription or product to sell you- just frontline insight from 20+ years in these fields. Here is a note from the editor (me) teeing up this new journey: sportpassportusa.com/post/a-… #Sports #SportsTech #HumanPerformance #SaaS

Small point of clarification- it’s policy in many settings that in urgent/acute needs, medical TX/DX may take longer & must be complete before media availability. That’s been the case in teams I’ve worked with. 2 IV bags is telling- I have zero information and don’t want to speculate, but it’s possible he had severe dehydration if he needed 2 bags and you’re looking at a minimum of an hour if not 2+ hours to complete. Then think of the optics- not sure U of O would want their starting quarterback and Heisman candidate sitting and taking questions from the media hooked up to an IV after that game and performance. There may have been an in-house call to keep him back in the locker room. To your point: if there was time after that before they needed to leave/no communications on status- you certainly can take issue with that.

My senior year we ended the season with 13 healthy players. In the @OSAASports modified 2021 sports year, I was an assistant for a program that had 29 total kids- 5 of whom were freshman. I feel for these kids not getting to pursue their passion for football this season.

I’d love more of this from all sports media: Performance and medical perspectives from trained pros. Great insights from @RehabAllStar

What’s disappointing is that so much of this was avoidable. WOU has an accredited S&C coach, sports medicine staff, not to mention a fairly robust exercise and sports science academic department. From what I’ve read so far, none of them were consulted or approved of these workouts that were implemented by the basketball coaches themselves. If Dr. H (RIP) were still around, I imagine he would have stormed the court himself and personally intervened on behalf of the student athletes.

I wrote my Masters project thesis 'Practical Implementation and Application of Integrated Technologies in an NCAA Football Team Setting' in 2015. Fast forward a decade and "written plans for use of performance technology" are now official NCAA recommendations. Having been in this realm all these years I am reminded of one thing: There are schools in 2026 who are still not operating under the same practices and procedures that early leaders had in place 16+ years ago. University of Oregon is a great example. They were one of the earliest adopters of GPS technology with dedicated & qualified staff using specialized tools to collect data on athlete performance. 16 years later, they have an entire Sport and Performance Science department, budget, Mariota Building, etc. Then there are other current/recent power-conference schools who don't employ a single, fully dedicated Sport Scientist- if they make use of much technology at all. These recommendations will hopefully serve as guidance for all institutions, and in particular those schools who are caught playing catch-up during tumultuous times (good luck with that). sportsbusinessjournal.com/Ar…

#MyXAnniversary reflection: I had a Twitter account prior to this one that was mixed with both personal and professional postings. What spurned me to delete the old account and create this MDHCSCS account that has been (mostly) field-related content to sports and human performance: I made an informed comment on a rash of injuries with a specific football team during August when daily doubles were still allowable in NCAA football circa 2012. This came in the form of retweeting a post from a "regional expert" of collegiate sports that reported a high number of starters sitting out during camp suffering from injuries. I, as a former collegiate football player, credential strength coach, and someone who had coached football myself, simply said something to the effect of: "practicing for 2-3 hours, twice a day, on most days of the week, without a day off is not conducive for preparing for the season if the result is that your best players suffer injuries and can't practice. Many other (more successful teams) don't have daily doubles anymore in 2012." The regional expert took exception to my informed opinion, and retweeted my post with their own comment: "If you don't think athletes need daily doubles to get in shape and prepare for the season, you are clinically insane." Those last words in bold italics are an exact quotation. 11 years later, this place is still as toxic as ever. But alas, I am still here. Maybe I've been the problem all along. Happy tweeting everyone. DM me and I'll tell you who it was 🤣

Is building your own AMS creating leverage for your career, or putting your organization in a dangerous, never-ending hamster wheel? I've lived both ends of the story, and here is what sport scientists, performance & medical staffs, GMs & ADs should know:

-A handful of OSAA POY's -Dozens of college players -NFL veterans, a Super Bowl Champ -An athlete Jim Harbaugh called "the perfect football player" LO's Strength & Conditioning coach Mark McLaughlin was no stranger to success before 2025 title. sportpassportusa.com/post/la…

After scrolling through entirely too much of my feed, one thing is clear about #GoBeavs fans re: Coach Bray. A majority consensus of posts trend towards appreciation for Bray, acknowledgement that a decision was warranted at some point based on results, and frustration at state of department. What are objective measures outside of W-L that we can observe and monitor to demonstrate positive momentum within athletics? Perhaps some further context to what time might mean or look like... Fun fact: circa 2012/2013, the OSU athletics department paid an external consultant from a Big 10 school to assess the department structure and operations. I'm not aware of all findings, but do know staffing/org structure operations changes were recommended. I am wondering if OSU athletics have done anything in the last 12+ years since to further assess their efficiency, ability to grow, maintain modernity in an ever evolving collegiate athletics climate against top-tier P5 schools. Perhaps they have? I also can't help but assess their current circumstances in football and broader within athletics (conference, TV deals, NIL, etc) and wonder if these are symptoms of longer stemming issues within the department and university. When I was in grad school at Oregon State and getting to work with the football team, I would sometimes sit with the late Jeff Taylor (RIP) at training table, who had been around OSU for years. He would tell stories about how dire things had been at OSU athletics for so many years, and the success of football being the catalyst of everything we had at the time (this was 2013-2015 at the end of the Riley era). I remember Jeff's message then turning cautionary, which was ironic given what was coming in the following years under the successor to Riley, and what is going on now. Jeff let us who were "new" to OSU and wanting more success know how fragile it all was, and that we had more work to do institutionally to get to the next level. That conversation, and the external consulting, were 12 years ago. Looking at the situation now, and beyond the needed/known infrastructure enhancements (Reser), I genuinely wonder how much the department has enhanced itself to operate as a top-tier institution? I recognize the unprecedented events of Pac-12 collapse & NIL/transfer portal evolution, but I also see almost all of our former partner-institutions have managed to survive and advance much more quickly than we have thus far. So in context to Bray, a Beaver alum & legend who maybe wasn't ready to be the HC but chose not to abandon his school in a time of great need- and in context to the outpouring from Beaver fans and now other noted alumni (Cooks, Euhus, and many more)- What standard do we hold both the athletic department and university leadership to in order to advance football and all athletics towards the place we want to be in? Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk that no one asked for. GO BEAVS!

I don’t know ‘Uncle Kurt’ personally, but quite a few associates of mine in our field do - and every single one I’ve ever heard from said he is a top notch pro and person- leading by example in his toughest times. Be more like Coach Hester 💪