Where traditional athletics meets a cutting-edge analytics laboratory. The physical home of the V31 Protocol — born from youth baseball, scaled to every sport on campus.
Building 18 combines traditional athletics facilities with a cutting-edge sports analytics laboratory. This is where the V31 Protocol — born from youth baseball — scales to every sport on campus. Every named facility carries forward the legacy of the people who built Birmingham-Southern athletics, now operating under College XVIII’s data-integrity mission.
Every sport here has a data pipeline. The mission isn’t to match the NFL — it’s to put professional-grade analytics in the hands of everybody who wants it, basically for free. Phone. Free AI tier. Screenshots.
Named for Larry D. Striplin Jr. (BSC Class of 1951). Built 1981. The original testing ground for V31 Protocol screenshot capture — the field where the GRIND 1 flyout incident launched everything.
1,600 seats, artificial turf inside an eight-lane polyurethane track. AI camera rigs on the press-box roof capture 10-second burst video for biomechanical analysis.
Indoor venue for basketball and volleyball. SportsVisio AI runs during games; every game scored through the dual-book system — home book and away book, live-linked, discrepancies flagged.
Brought to you by the VHS tapes. Two basketball courts, an elevated indoor track, swimming pool, jai alai fronton, golf simulator lab — and the Sports Analytics Lab on the second floor.
92,000 sq ft air-supported inflatable dome — one of them big old blue bubbles. LED lighting built for AI video capture, climate-controlled 65–75°F year-round. Solves the Alabama summer problem.
Eight-lane collegiate facility modeled after Vanderbilt’s NCAA program. BowlSheet certified scoring + LaneTalk pin-leave tracking feed the College XVIII pipeline. Bowling isn’t a hobby — it’s a varsity sport with data.
Multi-monitor workstations for V31 protocol processing, GameChanger screenshot analysis, and biomechanical frame capture. Plus a 40-seat Video Review Theater and a Team AI Processing Room.
Where the Scorekeeping Referee System operates, processing dual-book discrepancy flags from GameChanger and other platforms. Born from refereeing in the Southern Athletic Association.
Same cloud the NFL uses, different scale. UPLIFT Capture, Rapsodo pitch monitors, SportsVisio, SwingVision, LaneTalk — professional-grade motion capture for the cost of two phones and a subscription.
The V31 origin story applied to every sport: 5-frame and 10-frame AI video capture, red-dot ball tracking, biomechanical analysis through any AI platform. Replicate 80% of pro insight for roughly $0.
Building 18 is the physical home of the Jenkins Method — the V31 Protocol’s 5-gate validation system that started with one dad falsifying a flyout at a GRIND tournament and evolved into a universal AI accuracy enforcement framework. Every wall in the Analytics Lab tells the story: Version 1 through Version 31, 400+ iterations, 1,200+ hours of systematic boundary testing.
The founding incident is displayed prominently: “Thomas’s dad changed a strikeout to a flyout to pad his kid’s fielding percentage. That single act of data manipulation launched everything.” The “Baseball AI Early Days” archive — the complete V1-through-V31 evolution, every error code, every fix tested — is the institutional memory of how systematic iteration creates production-ready AI systems.
The dean’s office, faculty, and the full academic program live in the Athletic Complex. Connected to College IX (Science/PHIN) for statistical computing, College I (Cybersecurity) for anti-tampering protocols, and College X (Engineering) for biomechanical sensor systems.
The browser labs that live here — each a working instrument, not a slideshow.
Striplin Field · El Manningway Field · Bend Like a Banana · The Sandcastle — Volleyball · The V31 Protocol
“The old facilities got new tech.
The new tech got old names.
That’s how you honor a campus.”