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.
