<p>Look, it’s not about the degree. I spoke about this in my long paragraph. It’s all about who knows you and who likes you. I am not attending Indiana because it’s a great sport management school. Heck, a bunch of the top SM schools aren’t schools that 95% of the public would consider to be “great” schools. Rather they are schools that have the alumni network that can get you a job. A lot of people have this weird idea that employers will be at their feet begging them to work for them because they have a sheet of paper that says they can. It’s not. That’s not why you go to college. School is all about making contacts and taking advantage of opportunities when they present themselves. </p>
<p>The sports industry isn’t like the business industry. You don’t post your resume online only to later have offers waiting for you for lots of high paying jobs with different companies. Everyone wants to be a GM. Everyone wants to work for the NFL, the NBA, or the MLB. There’s 32 businesses you can work for in the NFL, and 30 in the NBA/MLB. That’s only 92 places to work, if you have your sights set on those sports. There are thousands of graduates who have a sport management degree looking for those jobs. In addition, there are tons of communications/journalism/business majors that want in the industry as well.</p>
<p>You don’t “use a degree”. You apply your degree and the knowledge you gain in school to your job. It’s all about networking, a term that if you don’t know it by now will become in your daily vocabulary. If you network, if you go out and give employers reasons to hire you, they will. There are hundreds of applicants for every position, this isn’t like most industries where there will be a handful. To get an interview, you need contact information. To make them offer you the internship, you need to sell yourself.</p>