Logging in for the first time in a long while just to say this is a really great post thank you for sharing.
Austin Davis is a runner-up Mr. Basketball, 3-time first team all-state, local talent from an hour down the road. He's in the gym every day pushing KFaTA Jon Teske in practice and earning every minute he gets. He doesn't deserve an ounce of criticism on here. Quiet down please or go jump in a lake and be grateful you exist to watch John Beilein build the best basketball program Ann Arbor has ever seen.
I was in the sport management program at UofM for 3 semesters 05-06. It became clear to me that a switch to LSA and a degree in something like economics, accounting, business, computer science has far better value long term and that sports management was probably a waste of a few thousand dollars each semester. While I'd been a die hard sports fan since I can remember I didn't share that same passion for the behind the scene aspect of the industy and decided I'd better keep my options open.
My advice for somebody thinking about a sports management degree or entering the industry would be to major in a subject which could be useful in the sports field but has value and could lead to opportunities in other fields as well. Get an internship/work study somewhere in the athletic department, facilities management or marketing, to get a feel for the industry. Plan on either staying oncampues over the summer and working the spring sports/fall prep or finding another internship for the summer. Experience and networking are everything.
This plan would have you as well-placed to enter the field after your 4-5 years as anyone with a sports management degree in addition having far more options in the overall job market.
If for whatever reason somebody has thier heart set on a sports management degree then don't pay top dollar at a school like Michigan. Go somewhere where you can minimize your post-school debt obligation because entty-level salaries are shit.
Like someone mentioned, entry into the sports industry is tough, starting salaries are low, and you're going to have very little flexibility in terms of job choice or location because you won't have many opportunities/offers to chose from.
Having said all that, I did enjoy my experience and never found myself close to getting swamped academically (although the prgram is not the cakewalk that many people think. the workload is more project/group/paper oriented and less knowledge/theory/fact cramin), and I can tell people I had classes with current and former pro-athletes, olympians, WCWS walk-off ledgends and took a class taught by a former-NHL veteran and Berenson assistant who shared some incredible stories about the early years of the program under Red and his experience as an athelete at UofM. He also wasn't afriad to critizie the university's athletic department openly in class (this would play out on a larger stage a short while later on the radio station wtka) which I found hilarious but more importantly really opened my eyes to the hyprocisry rampant in college athletics. It would end up being the class I felt I got the most for bang for my buck while in college.
Today was the second time I noticed the mlax games in the results/calendar section on the mgoblue homepage. There was even a link to a men's lacrosse page however it was completely blank. The games aren't appearing now though.
I think the first time was when we beat MSU a couple of weeks ago. I remember thinking to myself that I'd never noticed the scores on mgoblue before but then the next day I couldn't find them anywhere.
Weird. It's like there's one guy posting the mlax info and another guy going around taking all down.
It's not like adding another weekend to the NCAA tournament would extend the season further. Just take out the silly two week break between the regionals and the Frozen Four and you get a tournament that lasts just as many weeks as the current version.
I think Tenn ran pretty bad with those foul calls. The first three easily could have been and have been called blocks. The last two were charges almost always tho.
Not sure why Bilas's name is getting dragged through the mud. Ok he's a big fan of Amaker but he also consistently speaks intelligently about the game and was absolutely on fire last night. He came out hammering on the selection committee.
You can't make much of Lunardi's stats without comparing them to others' predictions. Obviously the man isn't just pulling names out of his ass, I mean, he gets paid to do this, but I have no idea if correctly predicting 42% of the seeds is good or not.
And anybody that pays even a little attention to this stuff is going to get 63/65 a decent amount of the time. 64 is good but I'd expect a pro bracketologist to be getting 64+ almost every year.
Draymond was haning out with Jordan Dumars and some other guys at Bell's Saturday night around 3am. Dude is big. I was heavily intoxicated and felt bad for him because he was pizza-less and offered to buy him a slice but he declined politely.
Since the winner qualifies for the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil I expect the US to field their A team and not their B and C team scrubs like they did in 2009.
While he was the leading freshman goal scorer in the nation I'm pretty he he wasn't #1 overall. Hertzog from Penn State had 20 I believe. Still, he was Gatorade high school player of the year last year and he's obviously lived up to the hype and more.
He scored the lone goal against Akron earlier in the year, hopefully he can get another or two Friday.
They've man handled us pretty well the last two times we've played including the aforementioned 7-1 demolition but that seemed to spark something in our team so I'm hoping for a pretty good game next Friday.
In NCAA tournament play you are only suspended for accumluation of yellow cards on the 8th card. After that each additional three cards is another suspension.
"Postseason Games. Caution accumulation will carry over into postseason play, which includes conference tournaments and the NCAA tournament. Players or coaches participating in postseason play will receieve a one-game suspension when a toal of eight cautions have been accumulated."
Haamoody Saad with a great individual run through the left side of the box towards the end line crosses across teh 6 yard box where #10 Fabio Pareirra(sp) knocks it into the open goal.
Michigan needs to do a better job of holding possession when they get it to relieve pressure. They're looking to play too directly when Maryland has players back. Need to spread it around and move the ball outside. Defensively need to stay composed and take care of the ball under pressure...been a lot of poor clearances right at Maryland players in this game.
Having said that Meram and Saad are still huge threats and the winner is almost always a pass away
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Logging in for the first time in a long while just to say this is a really great post thank you for sharing.
Austin Davis is a runner-up Mr. Basketball, 3-time first team all-state, local talent from an hour down the road. He's in the gym every day pushing KFaTA Jon Teske in practice and earning every minute he gets. He doesn't deserve an ounce of criticism on here. Quiet down please or go jump in a lake and be grateful you exist to watch John Beilein build the best basketball program Ann Arbor has ever seen.
The old gang is coming back! Really hoping he starts writing regularily again, a true assest to the Michigan community.
I was in the sport management program at UofM for 3 semesters 05-06. It became clear to me that a switch to LSA and a degree in something like economics, accounting, business, computer science has far better value long term and that sports management was probably a waste of a few thousand dollars each semester. While I'd been a die hard sports fan since I can remember I didn't share that same passion for the behind the scene aspect of the industy and decided I'd better keep my options open.
My advice for somebody thinking about a sports management degree or entering the industry would be to major in a subject which could be useful in the sports field but has value and could lead to opportunities in other fields as well. Get an internship/work study somewhere in the athletic department, facilities management or marketing, to get a feel for the industry. Plan on either staying oncampues over the summer and working the spring sports/fall prep or finding another internship for the summer. Experience and networking are everything.
This plan would have you as well-placed to enter the field after your 4-5 years as anyone with a sports management degree in addition having far more options in the overall job market.
If for whatever reason somebody has thier heart set on a sports management degree then don't pay top dollar at a school like Michigan. Go somewhere where you can minimize your post-school debt obligation because entty-level salaries are shit.
Like someone mentioned, entry into the sports industry is tough, starting salaries are low, and you're going to have very little flexibility in terms of job choice or location because you won't have many opportunities/offers to chose from.
Having said all that, I did enjoy my experience and never found myself close to getting swamped academically (although the prgram is not the cakewalk that many people think. the workload is more project/group/paper oriented and less knowledge/theory/fact cramin), and I can tell people I had classes with current and former pro-athletes, olympians, WCWS walk-off ledgends and took a class taught by a former-NHL veteran and Berenson assistant who shared some incredible stories about the early years of the program under Red and his experience as an athelete at UofM. He also wasn't afriad to critizie the university's athletic department openly in class (this would play out on a larger stage a short while later on the radio station wtka) which I found hilarious but more importantly really opened my eyes to the hyprocisry rampant in college athletics. It would end up being the class I felt I got the most for bang for my buck while in college.
I am so satisfied.
No stream yet for me, am i doing it wrong?
bein sports is channel 658 in the ann arbor area on comcast. somehow i get this? woo!
The link at the top of the post isn't working for me.
Fox Soccer Channel will be carrying all the US's games plus all Qtr, Semi, and Finals games.
One of Univision or Telemundo has every game of the tournament I think.
Really enjoyed the updates and detrailed analysis throughout the season!
Why are we the away team in this game?
Today was the second time I noticed the mlax games in the results/calendar section on the mgoblue homepage. There was even a link to a men's lacrosse page however it was completely blank. The games aren't appearing now though.
I think the first time was when we beat MSU a couple of weeks ago. I remember thinking to myself that I'd never noticed the scores on mgoblue before but then the next day I couldn't find them anywhere.
Weird. It's like there's one guy posting the mlax info and another guy going around taking all down.
Tim Hardaway Jr to enter the draft
The fact that these pop up out of nowhere makes the experience that much better. Thanks RBUAS!
It's not like adding another weekend to the NCAA tournament would extend the season further. Just take out the silly two week break between the regionals and the Frozen Four and you get a tournament that lasts just as many weeks as the current version.
ESPN 2 for all three games
unfortunately the
MOOSE!
unfortunately the video of THAT screen he set against wisconsin isn't hosted any longer.
+1 would read again! very nice OP
What's there to be confused about? Somebody on the internet said something stupid.
I think Tenn ran pretty bad with those foul calls. The first three easily could have been and have been called blocks. The last two were charges almost always tho.
BRING ON KANSAS!!!
Not sure why Bilas's name is getting dragged through the mud. Ok he's a big fan of Amaker but he also consistently speaks intelligently about the game and was absolutely on fire last night. He came out hammering on the selection committee.
Bilas: Dropping knowledge
Hubert: durrrrr EYE TEST
Digger: Colorado beat KSU THREE TIMES!!!!
Rece Davis: Hey guys look at this math
Bilas: More knowledge
You can't make much of Lunardi's stats without comparing them to others' predictions. Obviously the man isn't just pulling names out of his ass, I mean, he gets paid to do this, but I have no idea if correctly predicting 42% of the seeds is good or not.
And anybody that pays even a little attention to this stuff is going to get 63/65 a decent amount of the time. 64 is good but I'd expect a pro bracketologist to be getting 64+ almost every year.
It's wasy to win your first BTT game when you play Iowa every year. Zing!
Does the Alumni Assosication even have watch partys for basketball? I wonder if they'd do an NCAA tournament event.
Smotrycz played really well on defense today and by that I mean he wasn't obviously horrendous.
I don't think we'll lose to them in anything ever again.
More like NIT chants from the Maize Rage
More like "Lousiville cheerleader's mistake improved Pitt's chances of winning from 0% to 1%"
Assume
90% Free throw shooter
Pitts hit game-tying hail mary 2.5%
Pitt wins in OT 45%
Very un-butterfly like assist from Morris there
Good start on the road. Love the intensity
Draymond was haning out with Jordan Dumars and some other guys at Bell's Saturday night around 3am. Dude is big. I was heavily intoxicated and felt bad for him because he was pizza-less and offered to buy him a slice but he declined politely.
Why is Jozy Altidore playing for the Houston Rockets?
Since the winner qualifies for the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil I expect the US to field their A team and not their B and C team scrubs like they did in 2009.
By having more points than the other team at the end of the game.
Lloyd Brady's not very excited about Michigan basketball imo
While he was the leading freshman goal scorer in the nation I'm pretty he he wasn't #1 overall. Hertzog from Penn State had 20 I believe. Still, he was Gatorade high school player of the year last year and he's obviously lived up to the hype and more.
He scored the lone goal against Akron earlier in the year, hopefully he can get another or two Friday.
Akron wins 3-2 in penalties to advance.
They've man handled us pretty well the last two times we've played including the aforementioned 7-1 demolition but that seemed to spark something in our team so I'm hoping for a pretty good game next Friday.
In NCAA tournament play you are only suspended for accumluation of yellow cards on the 8th card. After that each additional three cards is another suspension.
"Postseason Games. Caution accumulation will carry over into postseason play, which includes conference tournaments and the NCAA tournament. Players or coaches participating in postseason play will receieve a one-game suspension when a toal of eight cautions have been accumulated."
per NCAA rule 12.11.2 here (caution PDF) http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/SO11.pdf
So stoked to watch this on TV next week. Gonna be a hell of a weeked.
friday soccer, saturday big chill, sunday national champs!
You win the inter-gradlibrary-nets
We'll play the winer of the Cal-Akron match that's about to kick off.
brings a tear to my eye every time i watch this.
Who said this? Our bracket was widely considered the toughest of the four.
FAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Haamoody Saad with a great individual run through the left side of the box towards the end line crosses across teh 6 yard box where #10 Fabio Pareirra(sp) knocks it into the open goal.
SANTA BARABARA HERE WE COME!!!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Good start for Michigan as they string a few passes together but the cross to switch fields skips out on the far side line
Michigan needs to do a better job of holding possession when they get it to relieve pressure. They're looking to play too directly when Maryland has players back. Need to spread it around and move the ball outside. Defensively need to stay composed and take care of the ball under pressure...been a lot of poor clearances right at Maryland players in this game.
Having said that Meram and Saad are still huge threats and the winner is almost always a pass away
cleared. one minute to go
CORNER!
Player down is Jeff Quijiano.
shot off throw in wide. goal kick us
Horrible turnover deep in our own zone but it weakly cleared out for a terp throwin