GA Dome Trip

Sport Site: GA Dome Date 11.17.11

Location: Atlanta, GA

Site Contact: Tour Guide

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.
- Locker Rooms - Where the players prepare for games, this a very big area for a large amount of players
- Field - Multi Purpose space, for sports events, music concerts, wrestling. Can hold up to 83,000 people.
- Media Area -  Where the media sit when the falcons or GA state play their games, a very big and open area.
- Verizon Suite - Verizon invested a large about of money into this suite, they have employees working on game days with offers on cell phones.
- Suites - Anybody can purchase one of these but your investment is not just for one season it is between a 3 and 7 year period.
- Super Suite - This is a suite where any person can buy just one luxury seat within this big suite, but the time period on this is the same as the normal suites.
- Helmet Wall - This has all of the high school helmets for all the schools in GA.

Career Possibilities:  What are potential career paths associated with this sports site?  Please list and briefly explain as many as you can identify.

This wasn’t really mentioned to us by the tour guide at any point but I suspect that they dome has many different career possibilities in all different areas. This is such a huge space with some many different areas to work in. So I think by looking online and finding job opening this would tell me a little bit more.

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

Once again, this trip did not fill me with a huge amount of knowledge but I did enjoy my tour around the stadium. I am a huge sports fan so being able to look around a space that NFL players get to use on a weekly basis was great.

GA Tech Field Trip

Sport Site: GA Tech Rec Centre Date 11.17.11

Location: GA Tech, Atlanta

Site Contact: Jon Hart

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.
- Work out area - anybody can access this, whether it is students, alumini, faculty. It is a great space.
- Climbing Wall - This is open every day for a certain amount of time for groups of people.
- Basketball Gyms - 6 of these for anyone to use, can be reserved or any of the tech students can use it.
- Track - Around the top of the Bball courts, 6 laps is a mile. Great space to use for anyone
- Competition Pool - Both diving & a races which is used for a lot of the swimming teams event in the AAC
- Leisure Pool - Has a pool to swim lengths, a slide, and lazy river which can be used by anyone at most times of the day
- Multi Purpose Area’s - Used for different classes such as aerobics, spinning, and martial arts.

Career Possibilities:  What are potential career paths associated with this sports site?  Please list and briefly explain as many as you can identify.

- Interns - Jon mentioned that last year was the first year that tech have offered interns that are paid. The interns can be pretty much be done at any point during the year, these are an average of 20hrs a week over a certain amount of time.

- The Rec centre has only four members of full time staff, they rely pretty much on the students working there to keep the place open but they do have several job openings right now. One of which is the aquatic director.

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

From a learning perspective I did not gain that much knowledge from the trip but I did realise how much these bigger schools have compared to our small school. Their Rec facilities are 10x better than what we have at Reinhardt. Also that Tech rely on their students to keep everything running smoothly for them, I think this is great.

Turner Field Visit

Sport Site: Turner Field Date 11.3.11

Location: Atlanta, GA

Site Contact: Dave (Tour Guide)

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.
- Museum - This was full of memorabilia from famous stars that played for the braves
- Top of the Stadium - Viewed the old Fulton county stadium and also saw where the Olympic stadium    used to be
- Suites - Saw where you could sit in comfort on a game day, eat and drink in style.
- Media Box - See where all of the media sits while the games are played and saw where each person would sit.
- Delta365 - Members pay money to sit in this part of the stadium, get waited on, watch the game in the cool, and watch other games.
- Locker Room - Where the team gets prepared for games, each have their own space.
- Dug Outs - Getting to stand where the players did on games day


Career Possibilities:  What are potential career paths associated with this sports site?  Please list and briefly explain as many as you can identify.

Internships are offered regularly not just by the braves but also by the two minor league teams associated with them: Rome & Gwinnett. All of these teams interview often for possible interns, also if you are lucky enough to get the position there is a high possibility that you are first in line for a full time job with the team once you are done with your work experience. This is common with a lot of work forces.


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

I learned a lot about what the Braves do as far as signing up for memberships. They have many types of this around the stadium, this also involves other companies such as delta. The Braves have a lot of sponsors in the stadium such as coca cola, they pay a lot to have their own part of the stadium. A lot of the things we were told on the tour were valuable knowledge to hold. I did not have any questions for the tour guide, I could not think of anything he hadn’t covered.

Guest Speaker #2 - Coach Vic Mitchel

Coach Mitchell started off as a computer science major at UGA, he felt like he wanted to do something else. Which is why he went to the basketball coach during this time and volunteered his services as a coach for the summer camps at the school. This lead to him being the UGA mens GA for when the team went to the final four (the only team in school history to do this). The cool experiences he had as a GA was all down to volunteering the summer camps.

In the fall of 1986 Vic had a job ready for him at a middle school in Cobb county which he turned down to interview for the womens head basketball coach at Reinhardt college, he ended up getting the job. After four years at the school he decided to take the job at Shorter Uni. This is mainly because of recruiting and the fact it was a four year school. RC at the time was only two year.

Since Coach Mitchell has been at shorter he has taken over several roles, and only until the last couple of years has he been able to concentrate on basketball again. Golf, cross country, and AD were some of the other roles he undertook whilst at shorter.

As a leader, Coach Mitchell feels like philosophies are very important. He gave the class several of these, the one that stood out the most to me was ' the worst thing you can do for someone is something they can do for themselves' . I really enjoyed todays speech, I feel like Coach Mitchell taught everyone a valuable lesson not only in coaching but in life aswell.

Coach Bill Popp - Guest Speaker

Within the sports admin class, several guest speakers come in to talk to us about their personal experience and how they got to where they are now. Athletic Director Bill Popp was the guest speaker for today's class.

Coach Popp graduated from KSU in 1992 with a degree in sports management. As part of his degree he had to complete and internship, he did this at Oglethorpe University after completing this one thing lead to another and he was given the head baseball coaching position at the age of 23. He remained there for 12 years until interviewed for the position at Reinhardt. There were 75 applicants for the job and he was the lucky one. Two years later he was the promoted to AD as well as head baseball coach. Within the last six months Popp had to step down as the baseball coach and become the first full time AD at Reinhardt due to the coming of football at the school.

Popp has many duties as an AD, such as giving coaches their scholarship $, more specifically their budgets which covers a lot of  areas within a team. Also eligibility is a big deal for him as that is key within college sports. Finally, recruiting and retaining athletes is huge for him as the department has to meet specifications every year.

I really enjoyed listening to what coach Popp had to say about his own experiences but also the future plans for the school. He is a great guy to have has AD at the school.

 

Welcome to Tom Wilson's PED 350 blog!

I am a junior at Reinhardt Univeristy. I am sports administration major and also play soccer. I came to Reinhardt on a soccer scholarship from England, I plan to stay in the USA after school to become a soccer coach.