I plan on staying with this business until I retire. This is something that I am passionate about when it comes to college athletes. I don't plan on initiating this plan and then leaving. The plan is only for Division I athletes. I believe it should be for all Divisions of athletics. Division II, Division III, NAIA, NJCAA. I don't intend to pass this down through my family. I intend on working on this for as long as I can.
I selected this particular exit plan because I am passionate about the rights of college athletes. By continuing to follow this plan, I have hopes that I will continue to persuade members of the NCAA to allow these athletes to be compensated for their image.
The exit plan that I decided to take has influenced me in many ways. I know that throughout the learning process of the business plan that I picked, I learned that I not only care for the Division I athletes with their name and image being used, but I also care for the athletes who are on the bench as well. I plan to use the resources that I have and continue to network throughout the years. Each person that I come into contact with for this business plan will continue to help me throughout the years and help me understand the process better.
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
26A Celebrating Failure
Failure is defined as a "lack of success." At some point (whether we want to admit it or not) we all have experienced a form of failure whether it is in the classroom, at home, at work, etc.
Since this semester has started, I started to gain more weight than usual. I tend to blame my boyfriend because of the "relationship weight" myth. But at the end of the day, it is on me. I work mainly work nights and they are 9 to 10 hour shifts 6 days a week. When I get off work it is either 11pm or it could be 1am. I tend to eat out at the restaurant that is open until 2am right down the street from my job. This causes me to eat poorly. I either or a few beers or a soda and eat an appetizer and an entree. Clearly this isn't good for your body when you are eating that late and are going right to bed.
My goal for the past few months have been to cut back on the alcohol and cut back on drinking soda. I was doing good for about two weeks and then I failed. It's difficult to quit something when your body is used to intaking certain foods or drinks per day. I'm a bartender full-time and everyday that I work I have people coming in and asking me about what drinks and what beer I like. Then they give me suggestions on drinks or beer to try out. So that makes it even harder to quit the drinking as well!
The weight gain and the failure to complete the cutting out of alcohol and soda have made me feel less about myself. It shows that I am not capable of being successful and that I am easily influenced by the smell or sight of the cravings.
I handle failure poorly. I complain about it for hours or days and drive everyone around me crazy. I should be taking it with a grain of salt and doing something to change it. Thinking back on the class, we have a lot of assignments due throughout the semester. It was clear at the beginning that we pretty much are in control of our own grade. If we miss one assignment we lose 1 to 3 points. He's setting us up for success rather than failure. This class taught me that I can be successful rather than a failure by getting all of the work done.
Since this semester has started, I started to gain more weight than usual. I tend to blame my boyfriend because of the "relationship weight" myth. But at the end of the day, it is on me. I work mainly work nights and they are 9 to 10 hour shifts 6 days a week. When I get off work it is either 11pm or it could be 1am. I tend to eat out at the restaurant that is open until 2am right down the street from my job. This causes me to eat poorly. I either or a few beers or a soda and eat an appetizer and an entree. Clearly this isn't good for your body when you are eating that late and are going right to bed.
My goal for the past few months have been to cut back on the alcohol and cut back on drinking soda. I was doing good for about two weeks and then I failed. It's difficult to quit something when your body is used to intaking certain foods or drinks per day. I'm a bartender full-time and everyday that I work I have people coming in and asking me about what drinks and what beer I like. Then they give me suggestions on drinks or beer to try out. So that makes it even harder to quit the drinking as well!
The weight gain and the failure to complete the cutting out of alcohol and soda have made me feel less about myself. It shows that I am not capable of being successful and that I am easily influenced by the smell or sight of the cravings.
I handle failure poorly. I complain about it for hours or days and drive everyone around me crazy. I should be taking it with a grain of salt and doing something to change it. Thinking back on the class, we have a lot of assignments due throughout the semester. It was clear at the beginning that we pretty much are in control of our own grade. If we miss one assignment we lose 1 to 3 points. He's setting us up for success rather than failure. This class taught me that I can be successful rather than a failure by getting all of the work done.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
24A Venture Concept No. 1
With my business plan, student-athletes at the collegiate level will be able to receive endorsement deals for their image, name, and likeliness. The opportunity and innovation would be that these student-athletes have the right to receive the money that are being made for their talent. In order for them to receive this amount of money, they have to go through some type of management class that will show them how to manage their money properly throughout their college years. Each athlete will be responsible for putting certain amount of money away so they have some after they finish their collegiate career.
Opportunity
This opportunity has been a topic for the NCAA for years. NCAA athletes have been used for their talents to gain satisfaction of the audience. Every year, there are reports of athletes borrowing money in their previous years in order to have some type of money throughout the year. Yes, each student-athletes receives food, clothes, and brand new jerseys from their institution. But that doesn't mean they have the money to survive throughout the school year. Even though some of these athletes may be on a full scholarship, most of them aren't. A standard football team varies from 45 to 65 athletes and from my realization, each Division I football program can hand out 25 scholarships whether they are full or partial. With the opportunity that the athletes are able to make some type of money through their athletic years at the collegiate level, they will have money throughout their four years and they will have money after they finish as well. This would be a major step for the NCAA. This "window of opportunity" will constantly be open and I don't think it is going to shut at any time. There will constantly be talk about this until it comes to a conclusion.
Innovation
The innovation for this type of opportunity will be all over the nation. It is an opportunity for college athletes at the Division I level to make money for the image, name, and likeliness. What would be happening is that the big name brands, such as Nike, Adidas, Under Armor or Puma, can sponsor these selected athletes based on them wearing their merchandise. If Nike wants the best player from Stanford to wear their shoes for a game, they will wear those shoes and receive a certain amount of money for advertising them. It can only work for that brand and athlete if the school signed a deal with that certain brand. The amount of money is going to be based on how much the brands want to offer the athletes.
Venture Concept
The opportunity will be addressing athletes who are being used for their talents and are not getting any compensation for it. The customers that would want to buy in this type of opportunities believe that these athletes deserve what they are working for. They are playing a sport that they love but it feels like a job to them. If they are going to be doing this full time, then the customers would have to believe that they are going to buy in to a good opportunity for young athletes.
Opportunity
This opportunity has been a topic for the NCAA for years. NCAA athletes have been used for their talents to gain satisfaction of the audience. Every year, there are reports of athletes borrowing money in their previous years in order to have some type of money throughout the year. Yes, each student-athletes receives food, clothes, and brand new jerseys from their institution. But that doesn't mean they have the money to survive throughout the school year. Even though some of these athletes may be on a full scholarship, most of them aren't. A standard football team varies from 45 to 65 athletes and from my realization, each Division I football program can hand out 25 scholarships whether they are full or partial. With the opportunity that the athletes are able to make some type of money through their athletic years at the collegiate level, they will have money throughout their four years and they will have money after they finish as well. This would be a major step for the NCAA. This "window of opportunity" will constantly be open and I don't think it is going to shut at any time. There will constantly be talk about this until it comes to a conclusion.
Innovation
The innovation for this type of opportunity will be all over the nation. It is an opportunity for college athletes at the Division I level to make money for the image, name, and likeliness. What would be happening is that the big name brands, such as Nike, Adidas, Under Armor or Puma, can sponsor these selected athletes based on them wearing their merchandise. If Nike wants the best player from Stanford to wear their shoes for a game, they will wear those shoes and receive a certain amount of money for advertising them. It can only work for that brand and athlete if the school signed a deal with that certain brand. The amount of money is going to be based on how much the brands want to offer the athletes.
Venture Concept
The opportunity will be addressing athletes who are being used for their talents and are not getting any compensation for it. The customers that would want to buy in this type of opportunities believe that these athletes deserve what they are working for. They are playing a sport that they love but it feels like a job to them. If they are going to be doing this full time, then the customers would have to believe that they are going to buy in to a good opportunity for young athletes.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
23A Venture's Unfair Advantage
1) College sports as a family - College sports bring together athletes from around the world and treats them as if they have another family or a family all together. An example is Roy Williams from UNC and what he does for his athletes.
2) Charity - Many Division I programs reach out to the community and help a local charity in need. This puts their image out into the world and has them looked up to.
3) Coaches - The coaches within the program are there to encourage you and to help you become a better athlete and student. They are also there to help you prepare for the future and your life outside of college sports.
4) Brands (Nike, Adidas, Puma) - These brands are the brands that each team uses throughout the nation (including other brands). Each brand makes some type of money off of the teams and the merchandise that the team and institution wears.
5) Knowledge - Each athlete has to go through certain requirements by the NCAA that they have to follow before they start playing at the institution. With their knowledge of each rule and each requirement, it will help them be a successful athlete as long as they follow the rules that the NCAA makes them follow.
6) Athletes in the NCAA - The athletes of the NCAA are students who are looking to either pursue their career outside of college or use it to help them be a better student on and off the court/field.
7) Publicity - Each NCAA team gets public knowledge at some point throughout their season. With the people that I know within the press and the people that I know who work within NCAA teams, I would be able to learn the insides of the teams. I would also be able to give information to the people that I know that work with the teams social networking sites.
8) Money - With the Fair Pay to Play Act coming together, this would allow the student athletes to get paid for their image, name, and likeliness through the program. With this act, athletes can start earning up to a million dollars in endorsement deals starting fresh out of high school.
9) Money set away - If/When the act goes into play, each athlete needs to have some time of money put away for them. Receiving a high amount of money at a young age could mess with their egos and they get rid of it all within the next several months. This will allow the athletes to have some type of money after they graduate or if they don't make it to the professional level.
10) Talent - Having the talent to play where you are offered endorsement deals can make you feel like you are on top of the world. In order to keep those endorsement deals, the athletes will have to be up to par on their talent and continue to be successful.
I think the most important on out of these ventures is knowledge. You have to have some type of knowledge of what you're going to be put into as an athlete and what you are going to be going through with endorsement deals. It is not a cake walk. Even for coaches, they have to knowledgable of the right and wrong with these deals.
2) Charity - Many Division I programs reach out to the community and help a local charity in need. This puts their image out into the world and has them looked up to.
3) Coaches - The coaches within the program are there to encourage you and to help you become a better athlete and student. They are also there to help you prepare for the future and your life outside of college sports.
4) Brands (Nike, Adidas, Puma) - These brands are the brands that each team uses throughout the nation (including other brands). Each brand makes some type of money off of the teams and the merchandise that the team and institution wears.
5) Knowledge - Each athlete has to go through certain requirements by the NCAA that they have to follow before they start playing at the institution. With their knowledge of each rule and each requirement, it will help them be a successful athlete as long as they follow the rules that the NCAA makes them follow.
6) Athletes in the NCAA - The athletes of the NCAA are students who are looking to either pursue their career outside of college or use it to help them be a better student on and off the court/field.
7) Publicity - Each NCAA team gets public knowledge at some point throughout their season. With the people that I know within the press and the people that I know who work within NCAA teams, I would be able to learn the insides of the teams. I would also be able to give information to the people that I know that work with the teams social networking sites.
8) Money - With the Fair Pay to Play Act coming together, this would allow the student athletes to get paid for their image, name, and likeliness through the program. With this act, athletes can start earning up to a million dollars in endorsement deals starting fresh out of high school.
9) Money set away - If/When the act goes into play, each athlete needs to have some time of money put away for them. Receiving a high amount of money at a young age could mess with their egos and they get rid of it all within the next several months. This will allow the athletes to have some type of money after they graduate or if they don't make it to the professional level.
10) Talent - Having the talent to play where you are offered endorsement deals can make you feel like you are on top of the world. In order to keep those endorsement deals, the athletes will have to be up to par on their talent and continue to be successful.
I think the most important on out of these ventures is knowledge. You have to have some type of knowledge of what you're going to be put into as an athlete and what you are going to be going through with endorsement deals. It is not a cake walk. Even for coaches, they have to knowledgable of the right and wrong with these deals.
Friday, November 1, 2019
20A Growing Your Social Capital
1) Pervis Caldwell, high school basketball coach
Terry Thimlar, former Indiana State basketball coach for Larry Bird, athletic director
2) Domain-Pervis
Market - Terry
3) Pervis - current coworker for the high school, contacted him via face-to-face
Terry - former boss, contacted him via e-mail
4) Pervis - There is no return favor. He understands the help I need with my classes and is willing to help me out.
Terry - Same thing for Terry. He understands the help I need as well.
5) Pervis - Pervis is the type of person who knows a lot of people in the sports industry. He knows people from the elementary level to the professional level in the states and overseas. His connections have helped me with my homework today and have helped me with my career as well. I believe by utilizing him will allow me to network outside of my comfort zone and allow me to meet people who have the same beliefs as me.
Terry - Including Terry and his networking abilities with this assignment will allow me to network with more people in the professional world. He was previously a coach for Larry Bird and knew Magic Johnson very well. He is able to use his contacts and help me get insides for a potential job or for a future assignment. With his knowledge of people, he is able to help me get closer to finalizing my idea of the business plan that I have.
With this assignment, I did find it difficult to try to "target network" with these kind of people. I couldn't think of anyone that would be the supplier. I sat and thought about it for days and no one immediately came to mind. The first person that did was the California Senator but that is a long shot and I am sure they won't get back to me right away. This assignment did differ from networking in the past because you had to ask people with certain qualifications for the topic.
Terry Thimlar, former Indiana State basketball coach for Larry Bird, athletic director
2) Domain-Pervis
Market - Terry
3) Pervis - current coworker for the high school, contacted him via face-to-face
Terry - former boss, contacted him via e-mail
4) Pervis - There is no return favor. He understands the help I need with my classes and is willing to help me out.
Terry - Same thing for Terry. He understands the help I need as well.
5) Pervis - Pervis is the type of person who knows a lot of people in the sports industry. He knows people from the elementary level to the professional level in the states and overseas. His connections have helped me with my homework today and have helped me with my career as well. I believe by utilizing him will allow me to network outside of my comfort zone and allow me to meet people who have the same beliefs as me.
Terry - Including Terry and his networking abilities with this assignment will allow me to network with more people in the professional world. He was previously a coach for Larry Bird and knew Magic Johnson very well. He is able to use his contacts and help me get insides for a potential job or for a future assignment. With his knowledge of people, he is able to help me get closer to finalizing my idea of the business plan that I have.
With this assignment, I did find it difficult to try to "target network" with these kind of people. I couldn't think of anyone that would be the supplier. I sat and thought about it for days and no one immediately came to mind. The first person that did was the California Senator but that is a long shot and I am sure they won't get back to me right away. This assignment did differ from networking in the past because you had to ask people with certain qualifications for the topic.
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30A Final Reflection
Looking back through the posts throughout the semester, there are a couple that stick out to me. The most formative experience would be th...
