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No Longer CredentialedScheffler's Intriguing Press Conference, Has The House Settlement Pushed Higher Ed Too Far?, And Your Stories Hit HomeWe’re back and better than ever. In Episode 13, we talk about the World #1's stunning press conference that sent shockwaves through the golf world. We unpack his brutally honest revelations and share how his powerful message can transform your own life's journey, both at work and at home (4:59).Barca is Up To His Ears about the lunacy of higher ed and how universities are slapping on "student experience fees" while drowning in House Settlement debt. We expose the smoke and mirrors behind higher ed's latest money grab - and why you should be outraged (18:22).2025-07-2956 minNo Longer CredentialedMark Cohen, Longtime Collegiate Sports Communicator, Chats About His Career And Abrupt DepartureLongtime college sports communicator Mark Cohen probably slid into your social media feeds a little while back. The 36-year veteran of the business was abruptly let go in a four-minute meeting with his new athletic director at TCU earlier this summer, and the tributes poured in from all areas of sports to pay tribute to Cohen and his massive influence on the Horned Frogs’ most recent successes. I’m sure many of you were wondering, “Who is this guy?” Honestly, we wanted to get to know Mark, too.So, we did. He joined us to talk about his jour...2025-07-2257 minNo Longer CredentialedResearch Behind The Burnout: An Interview With Dr. Matt HumlWe’ve spent much of our time on this podcast speaking about the burnout associated with working in college sports and how it affected our personal and work lives. In this week’s episode, we speak to someone who has quantified our feelings into groundbreaking research.Dr. Matt Huml, an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati, teaches sport administration courses in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services. He is also on the forefront of the work issues that people working in college sports face every day. We ran across a piece in Sportico he a...2025-07-151h 05No Longer CredentialedFive Alarm Fire in College Sports, Wild Stories, And A Fresca To The FaceIn Episode 10 of No Longer Credentialed, Barca is joined by special guest host Eric "Stooche" Jones, filling in while Boggs is on vacation. To mark the milestone 10th episode, Barca opens with a full Kenny Powers–style eulogy, declaring that Boggs now lives through him (0:30). Hell yeah, dude.Then it’s a five-alarm fire rant (4:30) aimed squarely at athletic directors, as Barca torches leadership for their role in the House Settlement fallout and the mass layoffs sweeping college sports.From there, it’s Wild Stories Working In Sports, a greatest-hits set of absurd moments from the trenche...2025-07-0849 minNo Longer CredentialedA Summer HodgePodge, Our Full Zombie AD Lists, And Are Influencers The Next Frontier For Social Media Managers?In our summer hodgepodge episode, we’ll give another run at HR and Leadership (2:35), we’ll recap our full Zombie AD lists from the House Settlement episode (20:07), and Barca is Up To His Ears about the current state of social media and wonders if social media influencers should be running the whole shabang (25:38).This week’s episode is once again sponsored by Never Getting Promoted and Find My Boss. You remember - the Chiquita commercial (19:03).This episode was produced and written by Brandon Barca and Andy Boggs.Find us on all of the social...2025-07-0142 minNo Longer CredentialedPlayers We Never Thought Would Make It And Are We Trying To Kill Men’s College Basketball?In this episode, we take a look back at our over 40 years of experience working on the front lines in sports and reveal our top two players who have shocked us with their success in the professional ranks (2:35).This week’s episode is sponsored by a metatarsal and a robot (19:50).And while Boggs is concerned with all of the business aspects of men’s college basketball, he’s Up To His Ears about the structure of the game ON the court(38:55). Are we trying to kill it?This episode was produced and written by Bra...2025-06-2552 minNo Longer CredentialedHouse Settlement Industry Fallout, We Go “ZombieAD”, and How Much Is Alabama Football Worth?With the House Settlement finalized, we take a deep dive into the fallout of the agreement (2:39) and how it will impact the labor force in the industry (HINT: It’s a 5-alarm fire). We’ll also put on our ZombieAD hat and take a stab at ways to cut costs and raise revenue in these challenging times and introduce some ideas that college presidents surely have thought about. Is a major college football brand worth as much as the top-valued team in Major League Soccer? Our sponsors this week remind everyone working in sports about the grim times...2025-06-1753 minNo Longer CredentialedOur Sponsor Segment Goes Haywire and Do People Working In Sports Need Unions?We’re back for another edition of No Longer Credentialed.This week on the podcast, our “Sponsored By” segment goes from a 2-minute read to a 30-minute segment (3:07) that veers off into road travel etiquette, access to team rooms and our favorite meals on the road. Boggs is Up To His Ears about the organizations that support the people who work in sports (32:55) and wonders if they do enough to help alleviate burnout and the brain drain of the profession. Come for the industry talk, stay for the plantains and AI Boggsy. This epi...2025-06-1158 minNo Longer CredentialedOur Sponsor Segment Goes Haywire and Do People Working In Sports Need Unions?We’re back for another edition of No Longer Credentialed.This week on the podcast, our “Sponsored By” segment goes from a 2-minute read to a 30-minute segment (3:07) that veers off into road travel etiquette, access to team rooms and our favorite meals on the road. Boggs is Up To His Ears about the organizations that support the people who work in sports (32:55) and wonders if they do enough to help alleviate burnout and the brain drain of the profession. Come for the industry talk, stay for the plantains and AI Boggsy. This epi...2025-06-1058 minNo Longer CredentialedListener Feedback, Hosting Big Events and Finding The Camera, Digital Strategies and An Epic Omaha Tale, And Accepting HR For What It IsIn this episode of No Longer Credentialed, we’ll take in some listener feedback, take you inside the ropes of hosting and being around big events, both from the event and digital side, and Barca has some words of wisdom about HR and what they’re not. The guys dive into some listener feedback from people in the industry (3:04) as we all commiserate over working in the business.Boggs talks about his four key things to remember when hosting big events (6:44) including always having his eyes on the camera and Barca dishes on some digital strat...2025-06-0350 minNo Longer CredentialedA Game of “What Would You Do?” And We Have Words For College Sports Middle ManagersWe’re back with a new episode of No Longer Credentialed with a new game we call “What Would You Do?” where we address some important questions in the business.We’ll talk about social media schedule releases and fuddy-duds crushing fun vibes (5:57), athletes not talking to the media after losses and hard situations (11:25), social media boundaries (26:35) and whether we’d give our alma maters a discount on our services (38:52). We’ll also give our illustrious sponsors the minutes they desperately deserve (25:02) and Boggs has some choice words for clueless middle managers in college sports (43:40).This epi...2025-05-2752 minNo Longer CredentialedBelichick Wishes He Had Us Working With Him, A Visit To The Psychologist's Couch and We Want Your Stories!In Episode 3 of No Longer Credentialed, we dive into the Bill Belichick situation at North Carolina from a grizzled-veteran point of view (2:22), we hear from our financial backers who haven’t paid up yet (18:53) and we tackle a conversation a psychologist would love (20:17).Barca is Up To His Ears with newbies asking for raises only a few months into the job (58:10), and we ask for your stories from the business that we can feature on future episodes. Anonymously, of course. Hit us up on our socials!This episode was produced and written by Brandon Barca and An...2025-05-201h 00No Longer CredentialedThe Five Suckiest Jobs In Sports and An Interview with Eric “Stoosh” JonesIn Episode 2 of No Longer Credentialed, we tackle the five suckiest jobs in sports (2:28) from two industry veterans. We also interview ticket office legend Eric “Stoosh” Jones (52:49), who tells us a doozy of a Christmas Day story, and after years of entertaining the masses on birthdays, he ranks his top three ice cream cakes. Finally, Andy is "Up To His Ears" about TV broadcast assignments. This episode was produced and written by Brandon Barca and Andy Boggs.Next week, we talk about Bill Belichick from a PR and Athletic Department perspective and also hit the ther...2025-05-131h 12No Longer CredentialedInaugural Episode, Scrambling To Prepare For Ludicrous Jersey Retirements, NIL Madness, Social Media Same-Old, Same-Old, and Barca is Up To His Ears About Loyalty In SportsIn this inaugural episode of No Longer Credentialed, longtime sports insiders Brandon Barca and Andy Boggs go through their Quick Hitters, including Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter’s jersey retirements (2:40), NIL madness and how it’s affected our viewing habits and the way we look at sports (8:06), as well as social media do’s and don’ts, with most places still concentrating on the don’ts (26:54). You’ll also learn about our sponsors for the show (35:28) and get a heartfelt rant from Barca on loyalty, or the lack thereof, in the sports space (36:19).This episode was produced and written...2025-05-0638 minNo Longer CredentialedTrailer: No Longer CredentialedSports broke us. So we made a podcast instead of going to therapy. Join former sports professionals Brandon Barca and Andy Boggs as they examine the current world of sports through the lens of over 40 years of combined experience working in the industry.This… is No Longer Credentialed. We once had access. Now we have opinions.2025-04-2801 min