High-Turnover Performance Systems
- Minor Bowens
- Jan 20
- 1 min read
Why modern college athletics is collapsing at the infrastructure layer
A systems-level analysis of athlete availability, performance decay, and organizational failure in the NIL era.
Published by Bowen’s Human Performance
1-20-2026
The Problem Is No Longer Effort — It’s Architecture
The state of collegiate athletics today has entered a state of permanent churn. Roster movement, coaching carousel, rapid technology adoption, and shifting economics have increased complexity faster than departments can absorb. Despite more staff, more data, and increased spending, availability remains inconsistent, and injuries continue to tax budgets and competitive planning… Failure does not come from a lack of talent or effort, but from a lack of architecture.
Fragmentation Is the Hidden Tax
The root cause is not a shortage of knowledge or effort; it is fragmentation. Strength & conditioning, athletic training, sports medicine, sports science, nutrition, academics, and operations often operate on different calendars and definitions, optimizing locally instead of globally… Within that fragmentation, time becomes the critical casualty.
This paper outlines the infrastructure required to restore availability, reduce waste, and stabilize historical high-turnover performance systems in an ever changing collegiate athletic environment.
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