Interview

I had an interview the other day with a sports agent and a former coach, Brad Muldoon. It was an intriguing conversation for the both of us. Seing as how we were involved in sports together I never saw this well educated successful businessman in him. He was the coach that would be cracking jokes and help us to the rough times on the field.
In spite of this, when I interviewed Brad I found out that he got his Bachelor's degree in finance from Michigan State and then went on to law school at UCLA. Those are to very prestigious universities and he said going back to law school was the first step he had towards success. He mentioned that after he graduated from UCLA so many new doors opened.
Another thing in the interview that I found interesting was the fact that getting hurt was the reason that he stopped playing baseball too. I had always known he was a great outfielder back in his day but never really knew what actually happened. So it turns out his sophmore year at Michigan State he tore his ACL and had to stop playing after that

Observation 4 (Dr. Finley)

For this observation I shadowed an old professor that I had, Dr. Finley. He is the head of the sports management program and I have worked with him on a few extra curricular activities. So on Tuesday, February 9th I visited his 9:15 facility and event management class, which turns out to have a lot of members of my subculture currently in it. It seems that this Sports Management class is more for the upper class man and those soon to graduate.
Dr. Finley has always intrigued me as a student and is one of the only professors I have had that knows how to motivate students to learn in those early morning classes. I say this from experience and while observing the class today saw first hand the participation and interest all students had.
Throughout the class they discussed certain sporting facilities and all the intricate parts involved in running a facility. Price range and budgets were thrown around in conversation along with some interesting facts about sports facilities currently open. Most stadiums built these days run the owners and all sponsors billions of dollars, proving how strong the sports market is.

Observaion 3 (Business Law class)

On Thursday February 4th I attended a business law class with a friend and student peer of mine Rob Proto. This class was at 9:15 in the business building with Dr. Jeff Fountain, One of the Sports Management professors. Rob will be graduating from the same major as me in May so I though it would be necessary to shadow him for a day. I had heard the class was somewhat difficult and I saw that to be true after sitting in. What I noticed about the students is they were all listening intently, as they should be because most of them need this class to graduate. All in all it was a good experience especially because that class is not too far down the road for me.

Baseball Signings

When it comes to the field of sports management there are many fields that need to be explored to get a full grasp of the concept. I went to explore the talent management area of sports management where there are agents and managers that deal with professional athletes careers. While watching Sports Center, a television show on ESPN, I saw that there were lots of off season baseball signings and trades. Before I get into detail I must explain that sports managers and agents are usually the people that negotiate these deals. These people are major players in the sports management industry. I will not get into detail with this matter but some of the key signings were Jonathan Papelbon, Tim Lincecum, and Adrain Beltre. The reason I bring this up is because the agents negotiate deals and have even been on telephone and video conferences on ESPN talking about how and why they got their clients the deals they did. The reason that this interests me so much is because this is the field I desire to get into. Jonathan Papelbon is a closer in the MLB and in 1 year will be making 9.8 million dollars. Now this is just one of the salaries in professional sports but I believe it is interesting how much money professional athletes make. This interests me because as an agent or manager you take a percent of the large salaries that professional athletes make. All the deals that you see on the TV and the Internet are made and negotiated by agents or people that manage the particular athletes careers

Intro

Hello everyone! I am currently a sports management major at NSU. I would like to get into all the aspects of this field and see where it can take people in the future. Within the next couple months i also will interview people who have this knowledge.