GA TECH AND GA DOME TOURS

Sport Site: GA Tech

Location:Atlanta, Georgia

Site Contact:Tour Guide

Site Facilities:  Separately, list and briefly summarize all areas/aspects of the sports site you toured.

·        The upper level basketball courts

·        The upper level track and weight machines- wheel chair accessible

·        Indoor hockey/ soccer

·        Indoor martial arts

·        Pool area- diving team area and recreational area- Olympic trials held in dive team pool

·        Weight room- lower level- machines and tread mills, elliptical, etc

·        Rock wall

·        Wall ball rooms

What are the most significant things you learned from this site visit?  What questions arose from this visit?

·        How to manage a large facility

·        How to make everything wheel chair and disability accessible

·        How to deal with water damage

·        Not a typical 9-5 job

Sport Site: GA Dome

Location:Atlanta, Georgia

Site Contact:Tour Guide

Site Facilities:  Separately, list and briefly summarize all areas/aspects of the sports site you toured.  

·        The upper level of the dome- 27 stories high

·        The box seats

·        The media room- unique because on 50 yard line

·        The owner suite

·        The high school helmet wall

·        The locker room

·        On the field

Turner Field Site Visit

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Site Visit Summary

Sport Site:Turner Field                                         
Date: Nov.3rd

Location:Atlanta, Georgia

Site Contact:Tour Guide Dave

Instructions: Submit (as an email attachment) a summary addressing information below and any other topics associated with the visit within before the next class meeting.

Site Facilities:  Separately, list and briefly summarize all areas/aspects of the sports site you toured.

• Upper coca-cola deck- allowed you to run the base and sit in the biggest chairs in Atlanta. Also this is where the fireworks shot out of the coca-cola bottle.
• Sport broadcasting room- where all the TV crews and commentators go to broadcast the game
• Writers room- where all the writers for news papers, the MLB, and other forums come to write about the game
• 500 club- an elite club for members only
• Braves locker room- where the players prepare for a game as well as shower, the training room was off of this as well.
• The suntrust lounge- another club for elite members only who get to sit right behind home plate, these seats are closer to home plate than the pitcher
• On the field (braves dugout)- we went out on the field and saw where all the players sit during a game
• Suits- where many companies and members can buy out a suite for the game, they are all covered and have 3 TV’s in them
  
  
• Career Possibilities:  What are potential career paths associated with this sports site?  Please list and briefly explain as many as you can identify.
  
• Marketing- marketing would be a career opportunity because this department is responsible for getting the public out to the game
• Public Relations- this branch is important because the guide told us that many different businesses rent out some parts of the park for their organizational functions as well as some rehearsal dinners, this department would deal with all of these different aspects
• Broadcasting- broadcasters are needed to give a play by play of the game to people who are not able to make it out to the game
• Administrative work- this would deal with all the paperwork and behind the scenes work
• Ticketing- dealing with selling of tickets to the game
• Recruiting- must recruit people to the team to play and be successful

What are the most significant things you learned from this site visit?  What questions arose from this visit?

• I learned how many people the stadium can hold and where it came from- the Olympic stadium
• I learned that the braves is the longest standing franchise in the MLB
• I learned that they keep the grass cut twice a day and that they have their own grass farm

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Guest Speaker Summary

 

 Date:9/29/11

Guest Speaker: Vic Mitchell      

Position or Title: Shorter Women’s Basketball Coach/ Sr. Associate AD

Organization:Shorter University 

Speaker’s Main Points:

• Started out as a volunteer for UGA basketball camps
• Led to a manager’s position
• Came to Reinhardt as a women’s and men’s club team
• Led to head Reinhardt women basketball coach
• Went to shorter because was a 4 year institution
• Football greatly helped shorter athletics
• Acrobatics and tumbling will be the next big sport
• Try to get a grad assistantship
• More visibility for Shorter  in the NCAA division
• Biggest administrative expense is traveling
  
  Questions for Speaker:

• What is the grad assistant work like?
• What is it like switching from NAIA to NCAA D2?
• Why is shorter going D2-mainly due to football-needed a 6^th team in D2 division and one left the NAIA division

Sport Leadership Information Learned from this speaker:

• When going for an interview: go in having a plan (on what you would do with program)
• Coaching isn’t about making a lot of money
• Look at resources of institution leads to level of success
• Have to like people
• Develop a philosophy
• Don’t do things for people they can do themselves
• Promise less deliver more
• Teach, motivate, discipline, evaluate

Guest Speaker: Bill Popp (Reinhardt Athletic Director)

Guest Speaker:             Bill Popp                                              

Position or Title:             Head Athletic Director          

Organization:              Reinhardt University              

Speaker’s Main Points:

• KSU Graduate
• No Masters-but highly recommends one
• Reinhardt spends $1.7 million on scholarships for athletics
• 82% of NAIA schools are private
• Meets with coaches to discuss goals and how to reach them
• Use of recruiting funnel-for every 10 people talked to get one to commit. He can see who coaches are recruiting
• Eligibility goes through Dr. Epling, Coach Crawford, and Bill Popp
• Title 9: make sure equal scholarship money is given out…not numbers of girls and boys equal
• Committee work is important
• Eagle Club-fundraising
• Resume
• Interview skills
• Grad Assistants-very likely to come soon
• New stadium and field house to house football as well as all outside sports-should be done by end of may
• Turf Field

Questions for speaker:

• Adequate parking for fields?
• Locker Rooms for all teams?
• Fundraising money is being spent on what?
• Field house and stadium will look like what? And be done when?
• Lined for all fields?

Sport Leadership Information Learned from this speaker:

I learned to always continue on in school to get a higher degree because in today’s world, a masters is needed. Also, start out with an entry level job and be prepared to do hard work for little money. However in the long run, you will make contacts and network which will lead to better positions and higher paid jobs. Find a job that you enjoy so you never have to work a day in your life. That is the kind of job I want to do. I also learned that the head athletic director job consists of much more than I thought, but it seems like a very fun and interesting job. 

Welcome Message

I am Kelsey Carl and I attend Reinhardt University. I will be keeping as blog as part of my PED 350 class requirements. This class is about sports administration information as well as issues within this field.We will be posting responses to class discussions and activities on our own personal blogs. Hope you enjoy what we discuss!