b'When Recoil Trampoline Park opened its doors inI remember thinking Valdosta needed a place like this. September 2019 few knew just how intertwined theThen I started watching the front door. Its not hard to popular Valdosta startup was with Valdosta Statecount by 20.University. Yet, Recoils hyper success can trace its roots and continued success, in part, to the HarleyInspired by how much fun he saw his boys have and Langdale Jr. College of Business Administration.intrigued by the popularity he witnessed, Coggins reached out to a large franchise the next week.Trent L. Coggins has always been drawn to the classroom.After obtaining a Master of BusinessIt was a disappointing phone call, he shares. Administration he worked his way through lawThe startup costs associated with franchises were school by teaching business courses at Maconprohibitive. Most importantly, they were not interested State College. Now a full-time practicing attorney,in coming to a market the size of Valdosta.Coggins has also served as an adjunct professor in VSUs Department of Management and HealthcareUndeterred, Coggins began to research and plan to see Administration since 2015.if he could develop a park of his own.I have always considered myself a business personI did it just like we would teach our students. I found first and a lawyer second, he says. Teaching lets methat several trampoline parks were currently successful bring the best of both of those worlds together.in markets similar to the Valdosta Metropolitan Statistical Area. That gave me the confidence to As owner and founder of Recoil Trampoline Park,continue.Coggins has added entrepreneur to the list. Coggins then visited as many trampoline parks as It all started on a weekend road trip in the Summer ofhe could to compile information on park layout, 2017 when Coggins and his wife, Anna, drove out ofmanagement, and operations. town to take their four boys to a trampoline park. We lost count at around 14 parks that we visited in the I had never even heard of a trampoline park, heSoutheast. It wasnt hard to convince four boys to help admits. My kids begged me to jump with them, but Iwith market research. But, thats how Recoil was born. know my limits. We saw what worked and what didnt. After watching his boys jump for a while, it didntDeveloping projected profit and loss estimates proved take long for Coggins inquisitive business mind tochallenging as little information was disclosed by the take over.larger franchises. 42 Langdale College of Business'