FloSports Empowers Division II, III Athletic Departments With Turnkey Production Suite for Livestreaming Production

Package standardizes live workflows, graphics, and quality across smaller college partners

When FloSports set out to scale its livestreaming presence across its deep portfolio of collegiate partners, it faced a familiar challenge: how to deliver professional-grade broadcasts at schools where the “production team” might be a single sports-information director, a student volunteer, or a multitasking grad assistant.

That challenge is met with the FloSports Production Suite, a self-contained live-production kit launched this fall and in pilot use across 11 NCAA Division II and III schools. The system combines commercial-grade hardware, cloud-based graphics, and FloSports’ support infrastructure to streamline production for hundreds of smaller athletic programs, many of which have ever had access to this level of technology before.

The initiative coincides with an expanded partnership between FloSports and the Landmark Conference, which recently extended its exclusive media-rights agreement through 2032. The deal — generating more than 2.5 million live plays on the FloCollege platform and 3 million social impressions this year — underscores Landmark’s status as a flagship partner in FloSports’ mission to elevate Division II and III coverage nationwide.

NCAA Division II and III colleges will be able to produce professional-quality shows with FloSports’ self-contained Production Suite.

“We think we’ve got a core production suite that we can roll out,” says Matthew Miller, VP, operations, FloSports. “We’re still early in the lifecycle — it has been in use only for about two months — and we’re learning a lot about how to improve it. It’s like launching a product: you start with your first 11 schools, get feedback, and iterate. The response has been positive. We’re stoked to scale this out.”

Inside the FloSports Production Suite

At its core, the suite is a compact but powerful live-production station. It’s anchored by vMix running on a Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 mobile workstation with an Intel Core i7-14700HX processor, NVIDIA RTX 2000 GPU, 32-GB DDR5 memory, and 1-TB SSD storage.

For encoding and delivery, each setup contains a Videon LiveEdge Node, a small-form-factor edge device already used by hundreds of teams across the FloSports platform.

Graphics are handled through web-based platform Singular.live, which requires no additional hardware and integrates seamlessly into vMix. FloSports’ in-house design team has created custom Singular packages for each sport, delivering broadcast-grade visuals that instantly elevate campus productions.

Much of that work is led by FloSports Senior Producer, Graphics, Seamus Grady, who oversees graphics development and partner support, and Senior Manager, Broadcast Engineering LJ Helbig, who focuses on R&D and broadcast engineering to ensure long-term scalability. The suite is built entirely from “industry-standard, future-proofed components,” giving students hands-on experience with the same tools used by professional crews.

Standardizing Quality, From Workflow to Support

Beyond hardware and graphics, the Production Suite is a consistency strategy — essential when FloSports supports more than 20,000 live events annually.

“One big component is standardizing the graphics,” Miller says, “but it’s also about standardizing the hardware and workflows happening onsite. That allows us to standardize our support operations inside the building. It’s tough to support that many events when you have all sorts of different setups.”

FloSports has also made 60-fps streaming a baseline expectation. “If we supply them the right equipment and tell them how to use it,” he adds, “it’s going to make all those conversations easier to get them up to 59.94 and higher-quality outputs.”

That push has already paid dividends: within the Landmark Conference, the new production package has driven 100% 60-fps delivery — a 45% year-over-year increase — and a major boost in uptime reliability.

Turnkey Solution for the Next Tier of College Sports

The idea for the Production Suite had floated inside FloSports for years, but the company officially mobilized in April 2025.

“This has always been kicked around as a good idea,” says Miller. “It was only around April when we put our heads down and started putting it together with the thought that, Hey, let’s get a pilot program launched for fall 2025. We put together a little Tiger Team inside the building, developed a custom graphics package, and lined up 11 institutions who were really interested in it.”

Those schools represent the first wave of what FloSports envisions as a scalable workflow tailored for the DII/DIII ecosystem. “Division I programs generally have the funding and production resources to figure a lot of this out,” Miller notes. “The need is in Division II and III.”

Scaling From Pilot to Platform

The pilot phase currently spans five conferences: Landmark Conference (Catholic University, Moravian College), NEWMAC (Babson College, MIT, Salve Regina University, Smith College, and Springfield College), SCIAC (Occidental College and Whittier College), SAC (Lenoir-Rhyne University), and the Lone Star Conference (Angelo State University).

The extended Landmark Conference partnership ensures continued investment in production resources across its 10 member schools.

“FloSports has been an incredible partner in helping us raise the bar for production quality and storytelling across the Landmark,” says Katie Boldvich, commissioner, Landmark Conference. “This ongoing commitment allows our institutions to continue expanding their communications and broadcasting efforts while also supporting broader championship and special-event investments for the conference as a whole. We’re proud to continue building on what we started together and to serve as a model for what’s possible at the Division III level.”

Adds FloSports SVP, Global Rights and Acquisition, Michael Levy, “The Landmark Conference has been with us since the beginning and believes in our mission to grow Division II and III sports on a national scale. Their trust in us has allowed experimentation and enabled us to push the boundaries on the types of productions we can deliver at scale.”

At Moravian University, one of the first Landmark schools to deploy the suite, the impact has been immediate. “The staff at FloCollege [FloSports’ dedicated small-college platform] made the transition as easy as possible for all the Landmark schools,” says Mark Fleming, director, athletic communications, Moravian University. “Using the FloSports Production Suite has made setup easier and will give the feel of a full sports network once all our schools start using it.”

FloSports expects participation to climb sharply. “Our soft internal target is around a hundred schools next year,” Miller adds. “But, pretty much, we’re willing to talk to anybody who wants to use it.”

Across the DII/DIII landscape, the system could eventually be used by more than 200 schools as FloSports expands its college portfolio.

Teaching the Fishermen: Training and Onsite Support

Because each campus has unique facilities, bandwidth, and staffing realities, training and support are central to the rollout.

“These schools are one-[person] bands,” Miller admits. “Some days, it’s a student picked at random who runs camera for the game. That variability makes it tough, even within a single school. What works at the indoor basketball venue might not work for the outdoor soccer pitch. But that’s what makes this fun. No one else is putting this level of investment or effort into it like we are.”

To bridge that gap, FloSports partners with Stream Dudes, a Milwaukee-based production firm specializing in vMix integration and training. “They travel onsite to package the hardware and help with training, particularly in vMix setup,” Miller says. “They’re also on call to troubleshoot over the course of a season. It has been a great partnership we’re looking to expand.”

That approach, he adds, is about “teaching the fishermen how to fish”: empowering schools to operate independently while backed by FloSports’ support infrastructure.

Raising the Bar — and the Next Generation

The Production Suite isn’t just a tech upgrade; it’s an educational tool.

“It’s a great opportunity for these students to get in there and start using professional tools,” Miller points out. “If you have any vision of a broadcast career, getting access to this tool set and having that kind of insight is really valuable.”

Professional-grade workflows also raise morale. “It makes you feel like you’re working on something legit,” he adds. “You bring a little more pride to the production when it looks professional.”

Even subtle enhancements — particularly the standardized graphics package — can transform a stream. A consistent visual identity not only improves the viewer experience but strengthens FloSports’ overall brand continuity. “That’s one of the key value propositions,” Miller says. “We’re coming in to enhance the product that schools are putting out. It’s in service and partnership to help them grow their reach.”

The Production Suite rollout aligns with the rapid growth of FloCollege. This season, the platform is home to more than 20,000 live and on-demand games, drawing 2.5 billion social-video views and 16 million in-platform views. Across its 18 conference partners, FloSports has invested more than $50 million in rights fees, production infrastructure, original content, and product innovation — ensuring consistent, high-quality experiences for fans and institutions alike.