Over the course of this semester I was introduce to a new world of communication called blog. Although I've heard of blogging, I never knew what it was nor how to do it until now. When I started my blog for my class weekly assignment I was very excited about it. I told just about everyone I could. As a fan who follow the sports world and who find it hard to keep up, I can only imagine with reporters have to do to meet dead lines. When following a event one have know what they are looking for to report on and that takes skills. You have to be very knowledgeable about what you are reporting. You also have to take good notes, and be very observant.
Some of the things I think could hender one from meeting dead lines would be the fact that a person is just not that good. Another would be that your not in to the game or the event. Family could be the cause of you not meeting dead lines. No matter what it has to get done people are waiting to hear what you have to say.
So make sure you are paying attention to the game, write down what you see and don't chance it to memory. That can prove fatal to your blog.

Drugs in College Sports

The news just came out about 4 TCU football players arrested for selling drugs. When will this end? When we get athletes from questionable communities there should be some questions in the back of every coach, is this kid involved in extra activities. Make no mistake about it most do. Don't give me this sad story that they should get paid. For the most part they do, they are giving a 4 year room and board to play sports and get and education. But to sell drugs to someone elses child is a bit much. Words to coaches if your getting a athlete from an area thats looks like, smell like, and feel like there is drugs then 5 out of 10 that athlete is involved. So coaches before you bring that kid into your house (progam) you might want to hire a private invesetagator to find out more about that student.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Authorities arrested 17 students in a sweeping drug sting at Texas Christian University on Wednesday, a bust that included four members of the Horned Frogs football team accused of selling marijuana to undercover officers during the season and as recently as a few weeks ago.

Police said the 17 people who were arrested were caught making "hand-to-hand" sales of marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and prescription drugs to undercover officers. They said the bust followed a six-month investigation prompted by complaints from students, parents and others.

The arrests stunned the campus community, coming just one day after a thrilling overtime victory by the men's basketball team and less than 24 hours after TCU released its football schedule for next season, its first in the Big 12 Conference. TCU has an enrollment of about 9,500 students, but the involvement of the athletes drew the most scrutiny.

"There are days people want to be a head football coach, but today is not one of those days," coach Gary Patterson said. "As I heard the news this morning, I was first shocked, then hurt and now I'm mad."

This is a prime example of what we learned about crisis. Every coach should always be prepared for anything these days. Student are coming from the worse parenting back ground having no limits and allowed to do just about anything they want. I can say that because I work with students that is heading in the same direction. When 12 -15 year old students have Probation Officers is a tall tale sign something going on at the home and deffiantly not parenting.

Recruiting and Fundraising. Are the two different or there is some similarities.

I have to agree with this article by Chris Delisio of Dayton University (OH) and Steve Fleming, Asst. Basketball Coach, Ashland University (OH) Recruiting & Fund-Raising.
Here is how they look at it.
When looking for your star athlete or donor you have to identify them. Just like every kid participating on a high school team my be a potential recruit the same goes for every individual in the world can be a potential donor.
2. Qualifying the Pool of prospects
Every coach is looking at the players and seeing if they are the piece of the puzzle that will make them a championship team and it's the same as for donors. Are they a fit with our school do we have the same things in common. I am sure people want to be part of a winning team and will give their last dime to have their name associated with that organization.
They go on to talk about ability and fit, contact with the prospect, research on your prospect, personal contact with the prospect, personal connections, personal visit to make the hit. Sometimes you being the coach show a prospect player or donor that you really want to start a relationship by visiting them personally. As a coach who is coaching at the high school level or a college coach wanting to be an athletic directors read the article and ask yourself, I'm ok having a sub par team with no money or I want to be in contention and that others or willing to invest money in my team.

Here is another link that can help with recruiting and fundraising. I think it make good sense to have people on your team that have the same passion as you do for your progam and school.
http://www.zimmerman-lehman.com/recruitingfundraisinginmind.htm

Improve your Recruiting and Fundraising Results

Building your enrollment and donations often comes down to relationships. Although it does not focus on sports I think it gives a key point that the get the top prospect athlete or donor it starts with relationships.
http://www.mailprint.com/education.htm

In the fragmented world of higher education, recruitment and development might seem like very different operations, but Mr. Lundquist doesn’t see it that way. “At its core, what admissions people are doing is very similar to what fund-raisers do,” he says. “You want to tell the story of the institution. It’s about reaching out to people and being respectful, and if they don’t want to hear from you, then you bug off.”
http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/what-fund-raisingrecruiting-have-in-common/22461

So as you can see  there is no difference between fund-raising and recruiting. It is done by just about all directors in charge of some school or program so coaches should do it as well. You can't just do on a leave the other part to someone else. I think if your doing both as a coach you know first hand what you are getting.

When we look at endorsements in sports is just a portion of whats out there. Companies has been using celeberties for as long as there been television. It was not until the 80's athelets started to get some of the action. Players like Michael Jordan was a poster child for Nike who opened the door for athletes to be used to promote their product. Nike also used Tiger Woods to get started in  the golf world. Here is an articile that explains it.

Branding and Celebrity Endorsements

Nike is known around the world for being one of the most iconic brands. It was recently ranked as the world’s 31st most valuable brand in terms of its brand value – USD10.8 billion – by the annual Business Week’s global top 100 brand survey. In spite of many market maneuvers (such as the recent merger between Adidas and Reebok), Nike has remained the leader in its category. Nike is also very well known for another aspect and that is its consistent use of celebrities to endorse the brand. In fact one of the most successful collaborations between a brand and a celebrity is that of Nike and Michael Jordan. So successful was the collaboration that Nike and Jordan launched a new brand variant called the Air Jordan line of sport shoes. Nike pulled off a very similar coup in the sports industry when it joined forces with the ace golfer Tiger Woods to enter the golf category with its apparel, equipment and accessories. Nike had no experience in golf before. Moreover, golf being a very elite game, it was generally considered that a brand like Nike would not be very successful. This might have probably been true had Nike chosen the traditional path to building its equity in the golfing arena. But Nike chose to associate with the best golfer in the world and have him endorse the brand. As is known today, Nike has emerged highly successful in golf.
This channel now being used by many brands around the world raises some crucial questions about ways brands are built and also about the impact such collaborations have on branding. Is associating with a leading celebrity the easiest way to build a brand? Should celebrity endorsement be the principal channel of brand communications? How can brands decide on potential brand endorsers? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such endorsements? Is celebrity endorsement always beneficial to the brand? How does a celebrity enhances a brand image? Answers to these and many other related questions are the content of this article.

Joe Namath & Beautymist pantyhose
  OJ Simpson & Hertz Perhaps the worst ever celebrity endorsement was car rental company Hertz's choice for a spokesman: OJ Simpson. Endorsements can be good and bad. We never know what will happen with athletes, so those who take a chance know that they are taking a risk but as stated in the article that the risk is far  greater than not to.  

Are you ready for some football? Football the American way that is. Lets hope we don't have what happened in Egypt to happen in Indiania. As fans gather their last minute hours of work in and packed and ready for this weekends. The media has arrived to give us to scoop of all the fun things that is going on showing us what we are missing from no parking, increase room rates, high airfare, rude fans and then some. So I ask this question again. Are you ready for some football. I think the winner is already been determine but what fun and profit in it if we don't allow these millionares to entertain us for a couple of hours.
Gaints 27    Patriots 21. Lets see how that work. I also had all my students that I work with to tell me what they think the score would be or who will win. 4 said NYG  5 Patriots. http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-superbowl-herewegoagain

Egypt police, protesters clash after soccer riot

The out break after a scoccer game in Egypt is a result of people who can't handle the freedom in which they where fighting for. Places like that will always remian in such toimorl. The Police stood and done nothing for the visiting people which speaks volume about them.
What if something like that take place here in the America? Let say the University of Texas goes to play Nebraska and a fight break out and people were killed and the local police stood and done nothing. We all know heads are gonna roll.

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Here is a photo of the media centre for the London Olympics. The centre in located downtown London. People who want have media visa to be at live events will be housed here.