Episode 8 - Zach Hirsch, 2019's most accurate sports handicapper, joins the show

11/11/20 • 29 min

Zach Hirsch, owner of iPickWins.com, is a sports analyst and handicapper. In 2019, as a senior in high school, Hirsch was the most accurate sports handicapper in the world, picking an unprecedented 100% of his FBS college football games correctly, including the SEC championship, FBS semifinals, and the national championship. This was first recorded perfect season of picks for any handicapper picking 20+ games. Hirsch also picked over 90% of his NFL, MMA, Boxing and ATP picks correctly, including the Super Bowl, French Open, US Open, UFC Championship bouts, and several world title boxing fights. In 2020, he attended the prestigious MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston and enrolled in Harvard University Entrepreneurial Essentials Program while also attending Lynn University with an emphasis in Sports Management. Hirsch has been featured in numerous publications, national and international podcasts, and was published in both the South Florida Tribune and SB Nation.

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Episode 7 - James Sherman, Director of Player Development for Texas State University, joins the show

James Sherman is in his second season as the Director of Player Development for Texas State University. Sherman was a four-year letterman for the Bobcats, set three single-game kicking records, and served four years on the student-athlete advisory committee.

Sherman set Texas State’s single-game records for most field goals made and attempted when he went 5/6 against Texas Southern in 2018. He also tied another school record and equaled the fourth-highest point total in Sun Belt Conference history when he scored 18 points in Texas State’s 36-20 victory over Texas Southern.

He was named Texas State’s Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2018 after serving as the president of Texas State’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and vice-chair on the Sun Belt Conference’s SAAC. He earned a Texas State Academic Achievement certificate three times, the school’s Academic Star of Excellence once, and was on the Sun Belt Commissioner’s List three times after maintaining a GPA between 3.5-4.0.

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Episode 9 - The Current State Of Recruiting For HS Specialists

College football's 2021 National Signing Day is 11 weeks away! Chris Rippon, founder of Coach Rip Consulting, joins the shows to discuss what transpires in the weeks leading up to signing day, and for a majority of specialists, the pivotal weeks that follow.

In 37 years coaching Division 1 college football, Rippon offered dozens of specialists opportunities to play at the next level. In this episode he explains the recruiting process from multiple perspectives (athlete, coach, and parent), and how each play an important role.

Host Dan Lundy and Chris Rippon discuss final recruiting essentials for the 2021 class, priorities for the 2022 class, and what underclassmen should do now to get a head start in recruiting.

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