Depending on which rankings you want to believe for graduate sports management programs, these are all top programs:
U of Illinois
U of Connecticut
U of Florida
Florida State U
LSU
Texas A & M
U of South Carolina
U of Louisville
Penn State U
U of Minnesota
U of North Carolina
U of Texas
Temple U
That would seem to include a number of graduate options at major universities. Whether they would be interested in a grad transfer quarterback is another issue. Given their play this year, there should be at least 4-5 of those schools without a returning quarterback that has a lock on the position.
There are four majors in Kinesiology: movement science, athletic training, health and fitness, and sport management. The vast majority of movement science majors end up in professional school for physical therapy, occupational therapy, orthotics, prosthetics, medicine, or physician's assistant. Some also go on to graduate school in kinesiology and end up as professors or research scientists. Industry has been hiring a lot of kinesiology ph.d.'s lately. Think Fitbit, Nike, Addidas, and wearable sensor companies. Athletic training majors usually go on to high schools, colleges, or rehab clinics. Health and fitness majors usually end up as personal trainers, coaches, physical education teachers, or fitness staff members as clubs. Many sport management majors go on to get law degrees, MBAs, and Ph.D.s in sport management. It pays to have some sort of advanced degree in the field as there are many more people that want to work in the field than there are jobs. Many of the majors end up working for college athletic departments, minor league teams, big 4 major sports teams (NHL, NFL, MLB, and NBA) but more end up using their business knowledge in careers that are less focused on sports (university and foundation development, pharmaceuticals, hospitality industry, etc.).
Jordan just got moved up to second string free safety on the Rams depth chart. That is a good sign he has a shot at making the final roster given that they only have 4 safeties left on the roster for FS and SS.
I would love to have sand volleyball as a new sport but it seems unlikely. Nebraska has an indoor sand practice court. Michigan could do the same. However, there isn't a lot of reasons to add it right now. People thought colleges would need to add sand volleyball to get the best volleyball recruits because they would want to play both indoor and sand. It seems that players are choosing to specialize in one or the other, so there isn't a recruiting factor for indoor players. Word out of the AD is they plan on holding pat for a while until things settle down with NCAA reform deliberations.
This probably deserves its own thread but I can't start one. UNC got transfer athletes into graduate school so they could be eligible. wow. I would have thought the grad admissions process would have been above this.
In bowl subdivision football, a graduate assistant coach is any coach who has received a baccalaureate degree or has exhausted athletics eligibility (whichever occurs later) within the previous seven (7) years and qualifies for appointment as a graduate assistant under the policies of the institution. The following provisions shall apply:
(a) The individual shall be enrolled in at least 50 percent of an institution's minimum regular graduate program of studies, except that during his or her final semester of the degree program, he or she may be enrolled in less than 50 percent of the institution's minimum regular program, provided he or she is carrying (for credit) the courses necessary to complete the degree requirements;
(b) The individual may not receive compensation or remuneration in excess of the value of a full grant-in-aid for a full-time student, based on the resident status of that individual, and the receipt of four complimentary tickets to the institution's intercollegiate football and basketball games;
(c) Graduate and postgraduate financial assistance administered outside the institution shall be excluded from the individual's limit on remuneration, provided such assistance is awarded through an established and continuing program to aid graduate students and the donor of the assistance does not restrict the recipient's choice of institutions;
(d) The individual may not serve as a graduate assistant coach for a period of more than two years except that if the individual successfully completes 24-semester hours during the initial two-year period, the individual may serve as a graduate assistant coach for a third year;
(e) Compensation for employment from a source outside the institution during the academic year shall be excluded from the institution's limit on remuneration, provided the institution does not arrange such employment and the compensation is for work actually performed.
(f) A graduate student coach may accept employment benefits available to all institutional employees (e.g., life insurance, health insurance, disability insurance), as well as expenses to attend the convention of the national coaches association in the coach's sport, without the value of those benefits being included;
(g) The individual may receive cash to cover unitemized incidental expenses during travel and practice for NCAA championship events or postseason bowl contests in accordance with institutional policy;
(h) The institution may provide actual and necessary expenses for the individual's spouse and children to attend a postseason football bowl game;
(i) The individual may not evaluate or contact prospects off-campus, regardless of whether compensation is received for such activities. The individual shall not perform recruiting coordination functions, however it is permissible for a graduate assistant coach to make telephone calls to prospects, provided the coach has successfully completed the coaches' certification examination.
Q1 answer: search the UM directory for the person's name. If they are a graduate student at UM, their school or college affiliation as a student is listed.
Q2 answer: a school or college can, but I don't know of that ever happening. keep in mind, each school and college on campus (18 not including Rackham) reviews and makes decisions on their grad applicants. This decision is solely with the faculty.
Q3 answer: Yes, though not sure what the current NCAA standards are. It used to be that you had to maintain enough hours over the academic year that you were a full time student. GAs generally used to get two years as graduate assistants. Not sure of current requirements.
One option that you didn't ask about but probably is of interest to you given your questions: enroll as a graduate student at Eastern Michigan Univ. In the past, many of the football GAs were actually enrolled as graduate students at EMU and the athletic department paid their tuition for them there. It is easier to get into EMU then Michigan.
I don't know what Michigan is using right now, but GPS is not cutting edge. It has been around for 10 years for tracking athlete movements during practice. Cutting edge is using a combination of GPS and Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) with novel algorithms to interpret the big data being collected. For some related video, check out:
Interesting study by a UM researcher shows that people get more upset with sports icons when they cheat in the game then when they cheat on their spouses. Kind of crazy world we live in.
Having played defense on a college football team that had Mark as a coach, I am not impressed. He didn't come off as the brightest guy. I was pretty amazed when he made it up to being a head coach. There are some coaches that are inspiring, some that seem like geniuses, and some that can easily relate and help their players. He didn't have any of those qualities.
"Strength and conditioning coach Shannon Turley and defensive coordinator Lance Anderson, both of whom came with Harbaugh from San Diego to Stanford eight years ago and are credited with having a huge effect on the rise of the Cardinal from the bottom of the Pac-10 to the top of the Pac-12, considered an offer before saying no."
Based on your comments, you sound like you got a very good education in undergraduate and in your PT schooling. Your facts are dead on. Good luck finishing up.
Your comments hit it squarely on the head. It takes cooperation from athletic coaches and funding to run the correct experimental studies on different training methods. Generally both are hard to come by. I have been involved with a quite a few training studies, but generally they are run on sedentary older men and women, or college students that are not high caliber athletes. The types of training you can get them to do is very different from what I experienced as a Division 1 football player. The field will continue to be dominated by personal experience, anecdotes, and intuition until there is a change in the funding model and buy in by coaches.
Lexi has yet to play or even dress for a game this season. She is being punished. So far she has missed four matches. That is pretty equivalent to a one game football suspension (4/30 ~= 1/12), so I am hoping she plays tomorrow against UNC.
Lexi has yet to play or even dress for a game this season. She is being punished. So far she has missed four matches. That is pretty equivalent to a one game football suspension (4/30 ~= 1/12), so I am hoping she plays tomorrow against UNC.
I would guess at least 50% of incoming students are undeclared, but that isn't the point I am curious about. I wonder where they will end up 5 years from now. Some of the complaints against the athletics academic advising in the past has been that they steer students to certain majors. It is good that they help the students see what is feasible, but there should be enough leeway so that the players can major in what they want. I'll follow up on this in summer 2019 and see what I can find out about where they finished.
Many of the universities from the football powerhouse conferences have stopped including football player majors on their bios, but I still find it interesting to see where most of the student-athlete recruits on the football teams decide to focus their academic studies. Of our incoming 16 student-athletes, all but one are enrolled in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, with major undeclared. Drake Harris is in the School of Kinesiology, major undeclared.
"And it's starting to happen, thanks in part to - you guessed it - Dave Brandon. Part of the football student ticket price increase will be used for the Mitchell Field renovation (currently ongoing) and other renovations."
Don't jump to thanking Brandon so quickly. Your thanks to Brandon for renovations to CCRB and other student rec facilities is misguided. All rec sports facilities were under the supervision of Athletics for decades and Athletics spent as little money as possible on them. That is how they ended up being so dilapidated compared to other Big 10 universities' facilities. When the decision was made to move rec sports from Athletics to Student Affairs, the deal included a requirement that Athletics had to pay money in the future for rec sports facilities upgrades because of the neglect they had given the facilities for decades. Brandon was on the hook to pay Student Affairs and he figured the easiest way to do it was to charge the students rather than actually take it out of his budget. So please, reconsider your thanks to David Brandon.
I fully support renovations to all the rec sports facilities for all students but Athletics is not the savior, they were the problem.
This is hitting square on the head. The president deals primarily with issues external to the university, especially fund raising. The provost is the one dealing with issues about how the university is actually run.
One of the hardest things to do is measure the true educational value of a university or college. The vast majority of all college rankings are heavily skewed in one form or fashion by differences in input. That is, if much higher quality students go to a college and then have more successful careers afterwards, is it because of the added value bestowed by their education or because they were better walking in the door? There is no doubt that Harvard has incoming students with higher academic achievement coming in the door than Michigan does. Comparing ROI, or number of famous alumni, or other such metrics between the two schools becomes very difficult. The closest test you could perform would be to randomly assign identical twins to various schools and then look at their careers 40 years later. You would still need a very large N (100+) between the schools to deal with all the other factors (choice of major, life events, etc.) but it might give some way to consider the true educational value of the school.
It is interesting to me that the University of Alabama football website and media guide don't list majors for their student-athletes. I wonder why they choose not to.
For better or worse, there is a lot of truth in what you say. University presidents primarily do fundraising these days. The integrity issue is a huge one to overcome. There is also the fact that the university would take a hit in its academic reputation by taking on a former football coach without a Ph.D. as President. Whether that indivdiual was effective or not as president wouldn't matter to many, it would still have a negative impact on the university reputation.
This thread may be fully played out and dead, but there is an interesting update related to the question. There are now 40 colleges playing women's sand volleyball as a varsity sport. That is the magic number to qualify it for an NCAA sponsored championship tournament. The sport has been growing quickly over the last two years. The NCAA requires two years of at least 40 colleges playing to have an NCAA championship so 2016 should have an NCAA champtionship tournament instead of the AVCA sponsored championship tournament that occurs now. Given that Nebraska has a sand team and more top level recruits are opting to go to schools that have both indoor and sand volleyball, I think it is just a matter of time before UM jumps in.
Now there is an interesting idea….a master’s program in General Studies. We have a fair number of student-athletes at Michigan that graduate before their playing eligibility is expired. It seems they are clustering in Master’s program in Social Work. Why not create a Master’s degree in General Studies so they can have the freedom to choose the classes that would best suit their personal needs?
The Big Ten Network has a new show airing segments about university projects during athletics contest breaks (e.g. Halftime). Two Michigan segments just aired for the first time yesterday:
http://youtu.be/SS1MFoz1Cp0http://youtu.be/egt19owIAQI
Pretty cool stuff.
Instead of relying on your honesty, how about we rely on facts? The 2013 football media guide has 113 players listed. There are 16 that are general studies majors and 12 that are in kinesiology. 16 + 12 = 28. 28/113 = 24.8% (rounded to nearest tenth percent). Most usually means greater than 50%. Less than 25% doesn't seem like most to me.
There are very few football players in sports management or any other major in kinesiology at Michigan. The 2013 media guide has 113 players listed. Of these, 6 are in kinesiology that aren't freshmen:
Kenny Allen
Blake Countess
Devin Funchess
Jareth Glanda
Joe Kerridge
Michael Schofield
There are 6 more true freshmen in kinesiology:
Chris Wormley (freshman)
Delano Hill (freshman)
Maurice Hurst (freshman)
Mike McCray (freshman)
Shane Morris (freshman)
Csont’e York (freshman)
but at least half of these freshmen will transfer to LSA before finishing their playing days if recent history repeats itself. General Studies is the number one major by popularity.
One of things that the UM Sports Management program has going for it is access to connections. Several of the faculty consult for professional team owners on the side. There is a professional team owner coming to talk to the undergraduate students at least once a semester in recent history. The program has also ramped up their internship connections, providing a lot of opportunities to do summer internships with Detroit and Ohio professional teams. The best way to a job afterwards is to work with a professor to assist in research consulting and/or do a great job with the internships each year. If you get an in with an organization that way, the success rate getting a good job afterwards is pretty high. If you go through the program without getting to know the professors and without doing internships, you will struggle finding a job afterwards.
We were outcoached on the 2 pt conversion attempt.
"Ohio State called timeout. The Buckeyes later said they were told by coaches to expect one of two plays. Cornerbacks coach Kerry Coombs went further, grabbing Powell and telling him: "They're running the 'angle' route."
Given what had happened earlier, all those trick plays and throwbacks and stuff that Michigan had not shown all season, Powell admitted, "The thought did cross my mind," that the Wolverines might go against the grain.
But Coombs was right. Powell was right there, ready to save the season – even if it won't hit home until much later."
There are actually very few football players in kinesiology at Michigan. The media guide has 113 players listed. Of these, 6 are in kinesiology that aren't freshmen:
Kenny Allen
Blake Countess
Devin Funchess
Jareth Glanda
Joe Kerridge
Michael Schofield
There are 6 more true freshmen in kinesiology:
Chris Wormley (freshman)
Delano Hill (freshman)
Maurice Hurst (freshman)
Mike McCray (freshman)
Shane Morris (freshman)
Csont’e York (freshman)
If recent history is a predictor, at least half of these freshmen will transfer to LSA before finishing their playing days or graduation (whichever comes first).
The major was changed to Sports Management several years ago, instead of Sports Management and Communication. They also got rid of the automatic admission slots to Kinesiology for athletes. Lastly, they installed a junior admission procedure for Sports Management that requires students to take maintain a certain GPA in specific Sports Management courses as Freshman and Sophomores before applying at the end of their Sophomore year to gain admission to the Sports Management major. As a result, things have changed a lot.
There are actually very few football players in the School of Kinesiology at Michigan. The media guide has 113 players listed. Of these, 6 are in kinesiology that aren't freshmen:
Kenny Allen
Blake Countess
Devin Funchess
Jareth Glanda
Joe Kerridge
Michael Schofield
There are 6 more true freshmen in kinesiology:
Chris Wormley (freshman)
Delano Hill (freshman)
Maurice Hurst (freshman)
Mike McCray (freshman)
Shane Morris (freshman)
Csont’e York (freshman)
If recent history is a predictor, at least half of these freshmen will transfer to LSA before finishing their playing days or graduation (whichever comes first).
In contrast, there are over 30 football players majoring in General Studies.
Actually, no. 15 years ago the borderline players went into Kinesiology. Today the borderline players go into LSA for General Studies. The School of Kinesiology is the 2nd hardest undergraduate program to get into on campus (Music, theater, and dance is hardest) by percentages. Less than one of three applicants get into Kinesiology. If you go straight up by the numbers, the average high school GPA and ACT scores of Kinesiology entering freshmen are higher than or equal to those of LSA entering freshmen.
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Depending on which rankings you want to believe for graduate sports management programs, these are all top programs:
U of Illinois
U of Connecticut
U of Florida
Florida State U
LSU
Texas A & M
U of South Carolina
U of Louisville
Penn State U
U of Minnesota
U of North Carolina
U of Texas
Temple U
That would seem to include a number of graduate options at major universities. Whether they would be interested in a grad transfer quarterback is another issue. Given their play this year, there should be at least 4-5 of those schools without a returning quarterback that has a lock on the position.
Are the transfer rules different for volleyball than they are for football? Why doesn't she have to sit out for a year?
Close but wrong guy. You will have to wait for the announcement though.
There are four majors in Kinesiology: movement science, athletic training, health and fitness, and sport management. The vast majority of movement science majors end up in professional school for physical therapy, occupational therapy, orthotics, prosthetics, medicine, or physician's assistant. Some also go on to graduate school in kinesiology and end up as professors or research scientists. Industry has been hiring a lot of kinesiology ph.d.'s lately. Think Fitbit, Nike, Addidas, and wearable sensor companies. Athletic training majors usually go on to high schools, colleges, or rehab clinics. Health and fitness majors usually end up as personal trainers, coaches, physical education teachers, or fitness staff members as clubs. Many sport management majors go on to get law degrees, MBAs, and Ph.D.s in sport management. It pays to have some sort of advanced degree in the field as there are many more people that want to work in the field than there are jobs. Many of the majors end up working for college athletic departments, minor league teams, big 4 major sports teams (NHL, NFL, MLB, and NBA) but more end up using their business knowledge in careers that are less focused on sports (university and foundation development, pharmaceuticals, hospitality industry, etc.).
Jordan just got moved up to second string free safety on the Rams depth chart. That is a good sign he has a shot at making the final roster given that they only have 4 safeties left on the roster for FS and SS.
Maybe he will become a bobsledder like Sam McGuffie
https://www.michigandaily.com/section/football/mcguffie-bobsled-michigan
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/05/u-m_grads_renditi…
Links on FaceBook are back up.
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
This probably deserves its own thread but I can't start one. UNC got transfer athletes into graduate school so they could be eligible. wow. I would have thought the grad admissions process would have been above this.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2015/02/28/4589708/former-unc-official-pres…
In bowl subdivision football, a graduate assistant coach is any coach who has received a baccalaureate degree or has exhausted athletics eligibility (whichever occurs later) within the previous seven (7) years and qualifies for appointment as a graduate assistant under the policies of the institution. The following provisions shall apply:
(a) The individual shall be enrolled in at least 50 percent of an institution's minimum regular graduate program of studies, except that during his or her final semester of the degree program, he or she may be enrolled in less than 50 percent of the institution's minimum regular program, provided he or she is carrying (for credit) the courses necessary to complete the degree requirements;
(b) The individual may not receive compensation or remuneration in excess of the value of a full grant-in-aid for a full-time student, based on the resident status of that individual, and the receipt of four complimentary tickets to the institution's intercollegiate football and basketball games;
(c) Graduate and postgraduate financial assistance administered outside the institution shall be excluded from the individual's limit on remuneration, provided such assistance is awarded through an established and continuing program to aid graduate students and the donor of the assistance does not restrict the recipient's choice of institutions;
(d) The individual may not serve as a graduate assistant coach for a period of more than two years except that if the individual successfully completes 24-semester hours during the initial two-year period, the individual may serve as a graduate assistant coach for a third year;
(e) Compensation for employment from a source outside the institution during the academic year shall be excluded from the institution's limit on remuneration, provided the institution does not arrange such employment and the compensation is for work actually performed.
(f) A graduate student coach may accept employment benefits available to all institutional employees (e.g., life insurance, health insurance, disability insurance), as well as expenses to attend the convention of the national coaches association in the coach's sport, without the value of those benefits being included;
(g) The individual may receive cash to cover unitemized incidental expenses during travel and practice for NCAA championship events or postseason bowl contests in accordance with institutional policy;
(h) The institution may provide actual and necessary expenses for the individual's spouse and children to attend a postseason football bowl game;
(i) The individual may not evaluate or contact prospects off-campus, regardless of whether compensation is received for such activities. The individual shall not perform recruiting coordination functions, however it is permissible for a graduate assistant coach to make telephone calls to prospects, provided the coach has successfully completed the coaches' certification examination.
Q1 answer: search the UM directory for the person's name. If they are a graduate student at UM, their school or college affiliation as a student is listed.
Q2 answer: a school or college can, but I don't know of that ever happening. keep in mind, each school and college on campus (18 not including Rackham) reviews and makes decisions on their grad applicants. This decision is solely with the faculty.
Q3 answer: Yes, though not sure what the current NCAA standards are. It used to be that you had to maintain enough hours over the academic year that you were a full time student. GAs generally used to get two years as graduate assistants. Not sure of current requirements.
One option that you didn't ask about but probably is of interest to you given your questions: enroll as a graduate student at Eastern Michigan Univ. In the past, many of the football GAs were actually enrolled as graduate students at EMU and the athletic department paid their tuition for them there. It is easier to get into EMU then Michigan.
I don't know what Michigan is using right now, but GPS is not cutting edge. It has been around for 10 years for tracking athlete movements during practice. Cutting edge is using a combination of GPS and Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) with novel algorithms to interpret the big data being collected. For some related video, check out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjfti4Um14I
Work at Michigan to get more biomechanical data out of the sensors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp_xCS-1WFw
That is state of the art. I would be interested to know what our new strength and conditioning coach starts using.
Interesting study by a UM researcher shows that people get more upset with sports icons when they cheat in the game then when they cheat on their spouses. Kind of crazy world we live in.
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/01/u-m_research_study_shows_peopl.html
Having played defense on a college football team that had Mark as a coach, I am not impressed. He didn't come off as the brightest guy. I was pretty amazed when he made it up to being a head coach. There are some coaches that are inspiring, some that seem like geniuses, and some that can easily relate and help their players. He didn't have any of those qualities.
http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/106976/jim-harbaugh-is-targ…
"Strength and conditioning coach Shannon Turley and defensive coordinator Lance Anderson, both of whom came with Harbaugh from San Diego to Stanford eight years ago and are credited with having a huge effect on the rise of the Cardinal from the bottom of the Pac-10 to the top of the Pac-12, considered an offer before saying no."
Based on the statistics for today, they should have given Joe Kerridge a lot more carries this season.
Based on your comments, you sound like you got a very good education in undergraduate and in your PT schooling. Your facts are dead on. Good luck finishing up.
Your comments hit it squarely on the head. It takes cooperation from athletic coaches and funding to run the correct experimental studies on different training methods. Generally both are hard to come by. I have been involved with a quite a few training studies, but generally they are run on sedentary older men and women, or college students that are not high caliber athletes. The types of training you can get them to do is very different from what I experienced as a Division 1 football player. The field will continue to be dominated by personal experience, anecdotes, and intuition until there is a change in the funding model and buy in by coaches.
Lexi still hasn't played. Seems to be a much greater punishment than Glasgow. No word from the coach whether she will play this year or not.
I would guess at least 50% of incoming students are undeclared, but that isn't the point I am curious about. I wonder where they will end up 5 years from now. Some of the complaints against the athletics academic advising in the past has been that they steer students to certain majors. It is good that they help the students see what is feasible, but there should be enough leeway so that the players can major in what they want. I'll follow up on this in summer 2019 and see what I can find out about where they finished.
Many of the universities from the football powerhouse conferences have stopped including football player majors on their bios, but I still find it interesting to see where most of the student-athlete recruits on the football teams decide to focus their academic studies. Of our incoming 16 student-athletes, all but one are enrolled in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, with major undeclared. Drake Harris is in the School of Kinesiology, major undeclared.
"And it's starting to happen, thanks in part to - you guessed it - Dave Brandon. Part of the football student ticket price increase will be used for the Mitchell Field renovation (currently ongoing) and other renovations."
Don't jump to thanking Brandon so quickly. Your thanks to Brandon for renovations to CCRB and other student rec facilities is misguided. All rec sports facilities were under the supervision of Athletics for decades and Athletics spent as little money as possible on them. That is how they ended up being so dilapidated compared to other Big 10 universities' facilities. When the decision was made to move rec sports from Athletics to Student Affairs, the deal included a requirement that Athletics had to pay money in the future for rec sports facilities upgrades because of the neglect they had given the facilities for decades. Brandon was on the hook to pay Student Affairs and he figured the easiest way to do it was to charge the students rather than actually take it out of his budget. So please, reconsider your thanks to David Brandon.
I fully support renovations to all the rec sports facilities for all students but Athletics is not the savior, they were the problem.
This is hitting square on the head. The president deals primarily with issues external to the university, especially fund raising. The provost is the one dealing with issues about how the university is actually run.
One of the hardest things to do is measure the true educational value of a university or college. The vast majority of all college rankings are heavily skewed in one form or fashion by differences in input. That is, if much higher quality students go to a college and then have more successful careers afterwards, is it because of the added value bestowed by their education or because they were better walking in the door? There is no doubt that Harvard has incoming students with higher academic achievement coming in the door than Michigan does. Comparing ROI, or number of famous alumni, or other such metrics between the two schools becomes very difficult. The closest test you could perform would be to randomly assign identical twins to various schools and then look at their careers 40 years later. You would still need a very large N (100+) between the schools to deal with all the other factors (choice of major, life events, etc.) but it might give some way to consider the true educational value of the school.
There is no physical education program on campus at all after this year.
It is interesting to me that the University of Alabama football website and media guide don't list majors for their student-athletes. I wonder why they choose not to.
For better or worse, there is a lot of truth in what you say. University presidents primarily do fundraising these days. The integrity issue is a huge one to overcome. There is also the fact that the university would take a hit in its academic reputation by taking on a former football coach without a Ph.D. as President. Whether that indivdiual was effective or not as president wouldn't matter to many, it would still have a negative impact on the university reputation.
This thread may be fully played out and dead, but there is an interesting update related to the question. There are now 40 colleges playing women's sand volleyball as a varsity sport. That is the magic number to qualify it for an NCAA sponsored championship tournament. The sport has been growing quickly over the last two years. The NCAA requires two years of at least 40 colleges playing to have an NCAA championship so 2016 should have an NCAA champtionship tournament instead of the AVCA sponsored championship tournament that occurs now. Given that Nebraska has a sand team and more top level recruits are opting to go to schools that have both indoor and sand volleyball, I think it is just a matter of time before UM jumps in.
Now there is an interesting idea….a master’s program in General Studies. We have a fair number of student-athletes at Michigan that graduate before their playing eligibility is expired. It seems they are clustering in Master’s program in Social Work. Why not create a Master’s degree in General Studies so they can have the freedom to choose the classes that would best suit their personal needs?
Instead of relying on your honesty, how about we rely on facts? The 2013 football media guide has 113 players listed. There are 16 that are general studies majors and 12 that are in kinesiology. 16 + 12 = 28. 28/113 = 24.8% (rounded to nearest tenth percent). Most usually means greater than 50%. Less than 25% doesn't seem like most to me.
Martha Pollack as new President
http://www.freep.com/article/20140123/NEWS06/301230116/University-of-Mi…
New U-M President is likely to be announced at 10 am meeting of Board of Regents on U-M campus. Place all bets by 6 am please.
nicely put
There are very few football players in sports management or any other major in kinesiology at Michigan. The 2013 media guide has 113 players listed. Of these, 6 are in kinesiology that aren't freshmen:
Kenny Allen
Blake Countess
Devin Funchess
Jareth Glanda
Joe Kerridge
Michael Schofield
There are 6 more true freshmen in kinesiology:
Chris Wormley (freshman)
Delano Hill (freshman)
Maurice Hurst (freshman)
Mike McCray (freshman)
Shane Morris (freshman)
Csont’e York (freshman)
but at least half of these freshmen will transfer to LSA before finishing their playing days if recent history repeats itself. General Studies is the number one major by popularity.
One of things that the UM Sports Management program has going for it is access to connections. Several of the faculty consult for professional team owners on the side. There is a professional team owner coming to talk to the undergraduate students at least once a semester in recent history. The program has also ramped up their internship connections, providing a lot of opportunities to do summer internships with Detroit and Ohio professional teams. The best way to a job afterwards is to work with a professor to assist in research consulting and/or do a great job with the internships each year. If you get an in with an organization that way, the success rate getting a good job afterwards is pretty high. If you go through the program without getting to know the professors and without doing internships, you will struggle finding a job afterwards.
We were outcoached on the 2 pt conversion attempt.
"Ohio State called timeout. The Buckeyes later said they were told by coaches to expect one of two plays. Cornerbacks coach Kerry Coombs went further, grabbing Powell and telling him: "They're running the 'angle' route."
Given what had happened earlier, all those trick plays and throwbacks and stuff that Michigan had not shown all season, Powell admitted, "The thought did cross my mind," that the Wolverines might go against the grain.
But Coombs was right. Powell was right there, ready to save the season – even if it won't hit home until much later."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2013/11/30/college-football-ohio-state-buckeyes-michigan-wolverines/3791033/
Linebacker Ryan Shazier said the Buckeyes had prepared for two conversion plays from Michigan and the Wolverines ran one of them.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/90483/buckeyes-regain-composure-just-in-time
The data don't support that statement.
There are actually very few football players in kinesiology at Michigan. The media guide has 113 players listed. Of these, 6 are in kinesiology that aren't freshmen:
Kenny Allen
Blake Countess
Devin Funchess
Jareth Glanda
Joe Kerridge
Michael Schofield
There are 6 more true freshmen in kinesiology:
Chris Wormley (freshman)
Delano Hill (freshman)
Maurice Hurst (freshman)
Mike McCray (freshman)
Shane Morris (freshman)
Csont’e York (freshman)
If recent history is a predictor, at least half of these freshmen will transfer to LSA before finishing their playing days or graduation (whichever comes first).
The major was changed to Sports Management several years ago, instead of Sports Management and Communication. They also got rid of the automatic admission slots to Kinesiology for athletes. Lastly, they installed a junior admission procedure for Sports Management that requires students to take maintain a certain GPA in specific Sports Management courses as Freshman and Sophomores before applying at the end of their Sophomore year to gain admission to the Sports Management major. As a result, things have changed a lot.
There are actually very few football players in the School of Kinesiology at Michigan. The media guide has 113 players listed. Of these, 6 are in kinesiology that aren't freshmen:
Kenny Allen
Blake Countess
Devin Funchess
Jareth Glanda
Joe Kerridge
Michael Schofield
There are 6 more true freshmen in kinesiology:
Chris Wormley (freshman)
Delano Hill (freshman)
Maurice Hurst (freshman)
Mike McCray (freshman)
Shane Morris (freshman)
Csont’e York (freshman)
If recent history is a predictor, at least half of these freshmen will transfer to LSA before finishing their playing days or graduation (whichever comes first).
In contrast, there are over 30 football players majoring in General Studies.
Actually, no. 15 years ago the borderline players went into Kinesiology. Today the borderline players go into LSA for General Studies. The School of Kinesiology is the 2nd hardest undergraduate program to get into on campus (Music, theater, and dance is hardest) by percentages. Less than one of three applicants get into Kinesiology. If you go straight up by the numbers, the average high school GPA and ACT scores of Kinesiology entering freshmen are higher than or equal to those of LSA entering freshmen.