That Was Awesome Steven Little

Today’s guest is Synjyn Days. Synjyn played football for Georgia Tech from 2010-2014. He started his career as a quarterback, then moved to A-Back in Paul Johnson’s triple option offense for two years, and then finally to B-Back his senior year, where he averaged 119 yards per game over the last 7 games after getting some starts at the position. He signed a free agent contract with the Dallas Cowboys after college and is now a financial advisor in Atlanta.Before our interview, I talked about ...

Today’s guest is Connor Hitchcock, founder and CEO of Homefield Apparel. In college at Indiana, Connor started an apparel company called Hoosier Proud that eventually became Homefield, which The Athletic recently featured in an article and called it the “hottest apparel company in college sports.” Homefield now produces premium licensed vintage apparel for over 100 colleges.Connor and I discussed the formation of Homefield Apparel, how they started adding schools, the process of licensing col...

Today’s guest is Santino Stancato. Santino, aka Morpheus, was until very recently the Brand Manager for Georgia Tech football, where he spent 21 months creating a ton of photo, video, and design content. Before that, he was with Coach Geoff Collins at Temple and before that spent time with the Brooklyn Cyclones, Marshall University, and his alma mater, Bloomsburg. He just left Georgia Tech to become the Head of Creative and Brand Strategy at J1S Creative, who works with Georgia Tech.Santino a...

Today’s guest is Adam Martin, a graphic designer and creative director from the Eastern Kentucky focused on providing design, content creation and brand strategy to clients in the sports & entertainment business. After graduating with a BFA in Graphic Design at Eastern Kentucky University in 2005, Adam began his career as a graphic and interactive designer at a renowned college sports marketing firm known today as Learfield IMG College.In 2006, he launched his own design firm. T/A Martin ...

Today’s guest is Roddy Jones, who was actually drafted in the 39th round of the MLB Draft out of high school but went to Georgia Tech to play football. He did play one year of baseball at Georgia Tech in addition to being a 4-year starter at A-Back in Paul Johnson’s triple option scheme, and he holds the record for most career starts at Georgia Tech with 52. He’s also the Georgia Tech career leader in yards per carry at 7.6 and was a 3-time member of the All-ACC Academic Team. Since graduatin...

Today’s guest is Tommy Siegel, who is the guitar and bass player and one of two vocalists and songwriters for my favorite band, Jukebox the Ghost. Tommy is also a prolific cartoonist who takes doodle requests while in the band’s tour van and turned a comic a day for a year project into 500 comics in 500 days. Now he has a book of his comics being published.Tommy and I discussed the formation and naming of Jukebox the Ghost, how they’ve achieved their unique sound, their Queen influence, their...