In today’s 60th episode of the show, we meet with J Batt, the Athletics Director of Georgia Tech University in Atlanta.
Georgia Tech will play Florida State University in this year’s Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin’s Aviva Stadium.
We chat about the changing world of college athletics, about managing 18 high-performance programmes rather than just one, and plenty more.
We start with how he got to the role he is in today, the excitement of the College Gameday experience, and why it is a worthwhile undertaking to come to Dubli
The game will take place on Saturday, August 24th and it will as ever be one of the highlights of the sporting summer.
Public sale tickets will be out next month and we will be dropping in on the prep for the game and the College Gameday experience plenty over the coming months.
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Coming Up we will be looking at the World of those preparing for the Paris Olympic Games, dropping in on alumni of the Sport for Business PwC 30 under 30 and more.
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