Assistant AD for events and game operations

Football gameday

A home football game needs the visiting team's travel party size and arrival window, the officiating crew and replay official, the broadcast window that sets kickoff, a law enforcement staffing plan, an ambulance on site, press box credentials, and the concessions load-in schedule. Almost none of it comes from people inside your department.

What usually goes wrong

  • Kickoff shifts for the broadcast window, and every downstream detail has to be re-confirmed by hand.
  • The visiting team's bus count arrives late, so parking and locker room setup get rebuilt the week of the game.
  • A change reaches the officials but not campus police, and nobody finds out until gameday.

How Homestand helps

  • The football playbook starts every game with the requirements that matter, each dated from kickoff rather than from today.
  • Visiting team, officials, broadcast, security, medical, staff, and vendors each get a scoped link and only their own checklist.
  • When kickoff moves, the update goes to the groups it affects, and you can see who has acknowledged it.

If your department already runs Teamworks

Teamworks coordinates the people who work for you — athletes, coaches, and staff, on your roster and behind your login. A home game also depends on the people who don't: the visiting team's travel party, the officiating crew, the broadcast truck, campus police, and the concessions vendor. None of them are going to take a seat in your staff system. That group is the one Homestand is built to reach, through a scoped link with no app and no account. It sits next to what you have rather than replacing it.

See it running on a real event with seeded data.