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3. Research some NIL companies online. Which companies exist?What services do they provide? How could these companies support SU?
2. Highlight key stakeholders who should be included in developing the NIL plan for SU. Who should be included and why?
1. If you were Chavez, what information, data, and resources would you need to help inform SU’s NIL plan moving forward?
8. Assess the organizational, managerial, financial, and legal changes occurring in intercollegiate athletics; and the impact of crises and indiscretions such as academic fraud and inappropriate
7. Debate current issues of importance in intercollegiate sport, such as the financial disparity in college athletics depending upon conference affiliation, the concept of paying student-athletes to
6. Recognize the various career opportunities available in intercollegiate athletics and the skills required to succeed in each of them.
5. Diagram the organizational structure of the NCAA and understand how that structure may influence the organization’s decision making.
4. Appraise the unique characteristics of NCAA Division I, II, and III athletic programs as well as the differences between FBS and FCS football within Division I.
3. Evaluate the scope of the various governing bodies of intercollegiate athletics, such as the NCAA, NAIA, and NJCAA.
2. Describe the historical development of intercollegiate sport from 1852 to the present.
1. Assess the social and economic importance of modern intercollegiate athletics.
4. How should Jones handle the mental health challenges facing his student-athletes, and from whom should he gather input when making these changes?
3. How can he create equitable policies for eligibility of all student-athletes?
2. How can Jones develop solutions to address the financial shortfalls incurred by the pandemic?
1. Identify the challenges that Jones must face when implementing the vaccine requirement for all student-athletes and dealing with criticism.
8. Examine the legal issues surrounding athlete eligibility in school and youth sports.
7. Assess the importance of ethics in school and youth sports,and describe how ethics applies to current issues such as coaches and administrators as predators, promoting gender equity, and providing
6. Apply basic management principles such as programmatic goal setting, performance evaluation, budgeting, and marketing to school and youth sports.
5. Identify the various career opportunities available in the school and youth sport industry.
4. Assess the roles of local, state, and national governing bodies in school and youth sports.
3. Describe the historical development of school and youth programs in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
2. Illustrate the need for well-trained professionals such as administrators, coaches, trainers, and officials in the school and youth sport segment.
1. Evaluate the importance of school and youth sports in contemporary American society.
3. With the recent budget changes and your solution implementation, is the mission statement in need of updating?a. If yes, select a new mission statement.b. If no, how does your solution still meet
2. From this model, what decision would you select in helping your community overcome this dilemma?
1. Select one of the ethical decision-making models outlined in the chapter (or another popular model not included in the chapter).Work through the dilemma using the stepwise progression of the model
6. Formulate a code of conduct for a sport organization.
5. Understand the mutual quest for excellence through challenge.
4. Analyze an ethical dilemma by using an ethical decision-making model.
3. Understand the ethical decision-making process.
2. Differentiate between ethics and morals.
1. Understand the roles that ethics and morals play in guiding human and organizational behavior.
8. Recognize that the impact of law on sport organizations is likely to increase in the future as the sport business becomes increasingly complex.
7. Understand how the study of law can improve analytical, communication, negotiating, leadership, listening, and ethical reasoning skills.
6. Appraise how the U.S. government enforces Title IX, and identify some of the important cases that have shaped the law since its passage in 1972.
5. Differentiate between the various areas of law that may affect sport organizations, such as torts, agency, contracts, constitutionality, antitrust, labor and employment, and intellectual property.
4. Understand why courts may overturn the rules of voluntary athletic organizations.
3. Develop a risk management program using the D.I.M.process.
2. Define risk management and understand that legal uncertainties can wreak havoc on a sport organization.
1. Have a basic understanding of legal principles needed to manage risk in their day-to-day activities and to know when to seek legal assistance.
5. If the Warriors used bonds to finance a portion of the new arena’s costs, which criteria would lenders use to evaluate their ability to repay the loan?
4. Which specific risks does the OACCA face in paying off the principal and interest on its existing bonds?
3. Which specific risks do the Warriors face in taking on the full cost of the project?
2. Which new revenue streams might the Warriors generate that could cover the cost of the new arena?
1. From a finance perspective, why did the Warriors allocate $1 billion to build a new arena?
10. Illustrate how techniques such as salary caps, revenue sharing, reverse-order-of-finish drafts, and luxury taxes may affect the degree of competitive balance within a league.
9. Define competitive balance and illustrate its importance to leagues and teams.
8. Consider why only a few intercollegiate athletic departments generate an annual surplus and why, taken as a whole, college athletics is unprofitable.
7. Judge the challenges that professional and intercollegiate sport organizations will encounter as the sport industry tries to continue growing revenue in the future.
6. Assess the degree of monopoly power that professional sport leagues enjoy and the effect that it has on teams’ ability to earn profits.
5. Understand how the industrial organization of the spectator sport industry is fundamentally different from the non-spectator sport industry and the rest of U.S. business.
4. Define financial risk, examine some of the factors that affect the risk of sport organizations, and discuss how excess risk may lead to default or bankruptcy.
3. Identify and define basic financial terms such as revenues, expenses, income statement, balance sheet, assets, liabilities, debt, owner’s equity, and return on investment.
2. Recognize that, whether large or small, all sport organizations have a need for staff with training in financial management.
1. Critically evaluate the various estimates of the economic magnitude of the sport industry.
3. Do you agree with this statement: “We evaluate the entire youth program based on how many players we are reaching”? Is that the appropriate way to evaluate a youth marketing program? How
2. Much of the outreach discussed in the case study is geared toward youth football teams, which are presumably made up of a majority of male players. What implication does that have for the
1. The Firedogs are sold out for every game, so the young people they are attempting to entice to become fans cannot attend an actual Firedogs game. What are ways for the Firedogs marketing staff to
9. Differentiate between broadcast/satellite television service and over-the-top viewing and discuss the importance of each to televised sport.
8. Recognize the value of sport marketing research.
7. Evaluate social media’s role in sport marketing.
6. Identify the key skills needed to be successful in sport marketing.
5. Analyze the importance of fostering fan identification and utilizing relationship marketing strategies.
4. Differentiate between mass marketing and market segmentation, and describe the various demographic, geographic, and psychographic characteristics that can be used to identify specific target
3. Compare and contrast the four P’s of the marketing mix:product, price, place, and promotion.
2. Assess the historical development of sport marketing, with a particular emphasis on the impacts of broadcasting, sponsorship, promotion, and marketing research.
1. Differentiate between sport marketing and the marketing of traditional goods and services.
3. How can the department determine whether the two championship events were a success?
2. What metrics should Nathan’s boss use in the evaluation process?
1. Which types of expectations would be reasonable for evaluating Nathan’s performance after each championship?
3. Which type of leadership do you think will be most effective to create inclusion?
2. Which elements from the decision-making model will Payton need to concentrate on?
1. How will Payton ensure the athletic department reflects the truly diverse nature of college athletics? How will this help to build success into the future?
5. How will Sue prioritize these roles and positions?
4. What might be some additional duties?
3. Which duties might the new members take over?
2. How might current job responsibilities be altered?
1. How should Sue organize the Compliance department to best utilize these two new employees?
3. What might be some key elements or strategies Javon will need to consider?
2. Which specific input would each of these people or groups provide?
1. In drawing up the plans for the arena renovations, who does Javon need to include in the planning meetings? Why?
8. Analyze the role social responsibility plays in the management of sport organizations.
7. Assess new and emerging theories of management such as empowerment and emotional intelligence.
6. Develop a plan to stay abreast of trends occurring in the sport industry that are of concern to managers, such as workplace diversity, emerging technologies, and issues unique to international
5. Demonstrate understanding of the basic management skills needed to be a successful sport manager, including communicating verbally and in writing, managing diversity, managing technology, making
4. Differentiate between the four functional areas of management: planning, organizing, leading, and evaluating.
3. Compare and contrast the historical phases of management theory from scientific management to the human relations movement through organizational behavior.
2. Assess the role that people play in the success of a sport organization.
1. Demonstrate how knowledge of basic management skills is critical to the success of a sport organization.
7. Sport history is full of the expected and unexpected, and full of change. Pick a league of your choosing and describe some of the changes you would make to the business model of the league. No
6. A current example of a new league blending the different sporting structures is Athletes Unlimited. Athletes Unlimited follows what it calls an “all-new model for pro athletes and sports.” It
5. Select a current professional sports league today in North America.Which one do you think has learned the most from its history?Explain your answer.
4. If you were the commissioner of the league you chose, which two changes would you make to improve the business operations of the league and why would you make them?
3. MLB was slow to integrate in modern times, with Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in modern professional baseball when he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. What did the process of
2. What did the early structure of the league look like? The number of teams? Which cities? How did the league grow into the powerhouse it is today?
1. Who were the people who played strategic roles in the formation of the league you chose, and why were they important?
14. Describe the role of the North American Society for Sport Management, the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation, and the American Association of Colleges and Schools of Business in the
13. Recognize that academic sport management programs exist around the world, and that although these programs may share similar curricular topics (e.g., sport marketing or sport law), each country
12. Describe the need that sport organizations have for trained sport managers, and explain how this need grew from a cooperative idea between practitioners and academics.
11. Identify some of the innovative sport managers who shaped the industry.

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