College athletic departments have increasingly engaged with outside consultants to assist on everything from hiring searches to NCAA compliance to football place-kicking instruction. Here are consulting agreements D-I universities engaged since 2018, which we obtained through public records requests.
Akron
Appalachian State
Parker Executive Search (FB coach)
Parker Executive Search (MBB coach)
Arizona State
Chicago State
Cincinnati
Cleveland State
Colorado
Connie Ko
Coppin State
Strategic Edge Athletic Consulting
East Carolina
Eastern Illinois
Forward Progress Athletics Consulting
Florida
Florida A&M
Georgia Southern
Georgia State
Idaho
Idaho State
Illinois
Indiana
CCHA Collegiate Sports Consulting
Kansas State
Lamar
Longwood
Louisiana Lafayette
Louisville
BMT Risk Management LLC (Dan Beebe Group)
McBrayer McGinnis Leslie & Kirkland
Firms chosen: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP; Dressman Benzinger LaVelle, PSC; Goldberg Simpson LLC; Landrum & Shouse, LLP; Law Office of J. Gregory Clare; McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie & Kirkland PLLC; Phillips Parker Orbeson &. Arnett, PLC; Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, PA; Still Kenos Ogden, PLLC; Strauss Law Group, PLLC.
Spreadsheet of consulting contracts
LSU
Maine
Marshall
Maryland
Massachusetts (UMass)
Forward Progress Athletics Consulting
Memphis
Missouri
Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC)
Montana State
Nebraska
Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather, LLP
Nevada
Erickson Thorpe &. Swainston, Ltd.
Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
New Mexico
North Carolina
North Carolina State
North Texas
Northern Kentucky
Oakland
Ohio State
Oklahoma State
Oregon
Institute for Sport and Social Justice
Purdue
Rutgers
Sandy Sharp Executive Coaching
South Carolina Upstate
Contract – The Compliance Group
Forward Progress Athletics Consulting
South Dakota
South Dakota State
Jump Forward (Active Network LLC)
Southeast Missouri State
Libby O’Brien Kingsley & Champion, LLC
Southern Utah
Stephen F. Austin
Eastman & Beaudine (AD search)
Eastman & Beaudine (FB search)
Forward Progress Athletics Consulting
Tennesse Tech
Tennessee
Texas A&M
Consultant and speaker agreements (combined)
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Texas Tech
Social Media Sports Management
UC Davis
UNLV
Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
Utah State
UTEP
VCU
Forward Progress Athletic Consulting
Weber State
Western Michigan
Rebecca Leitman Veidlinger, Esq.
Winthrop
Personalized Executive Training
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Green Bay (UW-Green Bay)
The Aspire Sport Marketing Group