Flagler College's Sports management programme

trizz75
Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:46:17 +0000

I am interning with a major league sports team this year as a freshman accounting major with a philosophy minor.

Case closed…

My interviewer (and future supervisor) explicitly asked me if I planned to enter the sports management industry. When I said no, she basically said thank God. Why? The MLB team I will be working for has a full-time staff of little over 150 people and a seasonal staff in excess of 4000. The biggest department is, you guessed it, the ACCOUNTING department, a group of people who are actually trained to do something.

With the logic you pro-sports management people are saying, then the Big 4 and every managerial consulting firm is illegitimate. The employees these firms use for a certain client, such as a pharmaceutical company, do not necessarily have a deep understanding of pharmacy or have a “pharmacy management” degree. They, instead, know business and can as such apply it to most every business context.

You can add basically any industry in front of the word “management” to make a major. Sports is not different. Ultimately, a management major is pretty useless on its own, so adding a random industry like sports renders the major even more useless.

Any potential candidate for the business world needs common sense; where in the business world will you “manage” or “business administrate” as a entry-level job? Nowhere. Where will you “manage” in a sports capacity? Using my example and the overwhelming evidence else where, nowhere x10

Lastly, I love the people who come asking a question and become defensive after receiving a response. I am glad immature people such as the OP are going to Flagler College and not my school.