D is a junior making her list of schools to visit in spring. Must-haves are listed in thread title. Sports Management and its variations can be major, minor or concentration. Syracuse (Falk School) is the benchmark. Cost and location are not considerations at this early stage…casting a wide net to start.
UMass
Need her stats to be helpful…and can you clarify how much Jewish life- Hillel only? Hillel with a kosher meal plan? Chabad nearby enough?
Stats are TBD, but roughly speaking, a “B student” profile. Hillel and kosher is not important. Thanks for asking 
Assuming that her B average is through taking a rigorous curriculum within the context of her high school, schools like UIUC, Minnesota, UConn, FSU and UMass Amherst come to mind. Her ACT will likely need to be around high 20s, low 30s.
Thanks! Have looked into those, but they are bigger than she wants. Problem we are finding is that sports management tends to = larger school…
@Andiamo427 That probably makes sense considering Big Ten sports and similar conferences, I’m not a sports person myself, but I know that larger schools will tend to be more involved in sports culture than a smaller school.
University of Miami (17% Jewish)
https://sites.education.miami.edu/sport-administration-b-s-ed/
Ithaca (16% Jewish)
https://www.ithaca.edu/business/departments/sportmanagement/
I don’t know if your D has football preferences, but Miami and Ithaca are DI and DIII, respectively.
Temple University.
Not sure of Jewish culture but OU (Ohio University) had one of the longest running sport management programs, I believe. Maybe graduate program only? Might want to check it out.
Boston University.
Yes, in general schools that have Sports Management tend to be larger. However, there are some “big” schools, ones that have been suggested and ones that haven’t, that are on the smaller end of big, and therefore not much larger than a school like Syracuse (undergrad 16,000). For example, UConn, Kansas, and Oregon are all about 19,000 undergrad. There really is not much difference between 16,000 and 19,000. Iowa is a bit larger at 24,000. Elon in NC is mid sized at 6,000 and has SM major. Also, you don’t say if the desire for mid sized school is more about academics or social, but if she is considering larger schools, she should get details about how the size of the school affects the classes. This will differ from school to school (e.g. some schools do video classes for large lectures). The other thing your D can consider is getting a business or communications degree, depending on what type of work she wants to do in sports. She can always take some classes related to sport as part of a business or communications program.
Towson University
Sorry - I take back my BU: just saw she wants football. No football, but a lot of excitement about hockey!
If she doesn’t want a big school but still wants football, look at the D2 schools. PA has a bunch (PSAC)
It should be an easy task to do a net price calculator run on each college of interest to check affordability before spending a lot more time researching the college. Leaving the cost check until later could result in having to throw away a lot of work and come up with a new list as application deadlines approach.
Or statistics / data science, if the Moneyball or Nate Silver type of stuff is her thing.
Hillel’s website has a ton of great info about the Jewish life at many schools, including the number and percent of Jewish students. In general it is hard to go wrong in the mid atlantic/northeast, but obviously there are differences among schools.
Michigan State University may be of interest & may match your stated interests.
If I recall correctly, the law school publishes a sports law journal–or, at least, they did.
If you have unweighted GPA and stats like Act then a more exact approach could be taken. Keep in mind many “large” schools can become very small quickly by major, joining groups etc. So I think seeing where she can get into realistically then seeing if those schools have the culture she is looking for would be a better approach.