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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My junior has locked in on this being a great job for herself someday. I can see it - she loves sports, loves coaching, loves helping people, has an extroverted and outgoing personality.

I have no idea how to get from A to B though. I assume going to a university with a robust athletics department that you could intern for would help? Better to play a club sport at a big D1 school or to play on a D3 team? What would one major in? Should she be looking at schools that tout their "sports management" programs?

Any thoughts or advice from people who know college athletics better than I do would be really helpful![/quote]

This is a great q.

I feel this is way more opaque than how to become a GM, sporting director in pro sports which I have lots of knowledge about.

College sports jobs otoh are so opaque.

I wil say do not get suckered into sports management programs.

M7 mba will help way way more, especiallly mit sloan (sloan connection to the sport world ironically is immense), HBS,GsB. 
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Can you say more about sports management programs? I see them cropping up more and more.[/quote]

These are mostly money making programs for universities that sucker kids into a degree that isn’t that useful. About 5x worse than “public policy” degrees had flood this town.

There are Not many “good jobs” in sports that actually pay you for a having a middle  class life.

So much of it is 60% networking 40% skills and if you see bios in pro sports junior execs/execs in 2021 have indistinguishable profiles from mbb consultants to be honest.

I worked for two mlb teams in the front office and have two family members who work in sports as decision makers.

Unless you are a former pro or high level d1 athlete, some mit grad with a history of blogging gets their interview requests accepted vs sports management grad.

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