KIN 312M EXAM 1

Why should hard-earned taxpayer dollars be spent to subsidize sport play and entertainment when those same monies are needed for roads, bridges, education, utilities, emergency services and public health?

sports need a return

T/F: When a compelling public interest for sport is claimed, it is known as legitimation

TRUE

5 categories of legitimations for sports:

- health

- social well-being

- community development

- economic development

- national pride

Sports are better than...

exercise

Why not sport for health?

- elite focus restricts rates

- injury rates too high

- do not provide sufficient physical activity

when can sports work to create positive health outcomes?

- design and deliver sport programs that are conducive to health

- focus on inclusivity and physical activity

sports are intrinsically...

- neutral

ppl drop out of sports from bad experiences

it is up to us to produce good outcomes

when can sports work to create positive social outcomes?

- nurture social networking

- create cultures that promote positive social behaviors

- evaluate coaches and administrators on the well-being they cultivate

the nature of competition and rivalry in sports can just as often drive a wedge between a community as it can...

bring it together

the Friday Night Lights video is an example of?

how sports affect communities

What is the Robert Cave experiment?

- fake summer camp of 11-12 yr old boys that focused on group bonding and brought the boys together

- researchers introduced the groups creating competition

- fake situations in which 2 groups had to work together to overcome differences

- the boys liked each other much more because of the team building experiment

the Robert Caves experiment was an example of what?

- realistic conflict theory

- with competition, negative theories will arise

when can sports work to create positive community development?

1. construct programming to cultivate shared stories and reflections aka create a common narrative

2. well formulated plan to integrate sport into overall community

3. fit sport into overall product and service mix aka part of something in the community

which of the following is NOT one of the five economic legitimations for sport discussed in chapter 1?

high paid athletes spend money that boosts the local economy

what are economic benefits of sports?

1. stadiums and arenas attract professional teams which creates jobs and helps market the community for business and tourism

2. sport facilities can enhance the attractiveness of the area in which they are constructed, thereby providing an anchor of business development while also raising property value

3. large sport events contribute more to the local economy than they cost to run

4. sport programs help to attract and stabilize the local workforce because sport programs make the community an attractive place for families to locate

5. international sporting successes can promote the sale of exports because they make products from winning countries more attractive

Stadium video:

- miami marlins have an actual aquarium behind home plate

- 12$ billion spent on professional teams stadiums

when can sports work to create positive economic outcomes?

1. sustained design to integrate sport into urban and business planning

2. sport used to complement nonstop elements in overall strategic effort

What does BIRG-ing mean?

B - basking

I - in

R - reflected

G - glory

sports have become a ___ to support patriotism and national pride

vehicle

BIRG: we like to associate ourselves with teams that....

win

what is the opposite of BIRG-ing?

CORF-ing

C - cutting

O - off

R - reflective

F- failure

when can sports work to create national pride?

1. must be planned and irrespective of winning

aka winning and participating create opportunities

2. focus on making competition/outcomes symbolically meaningful

aka broadcasters job to provide symbolism

3. evoke symbolism in communications and leverage beyond event aka try to leverage upon the event itself

Within which type of academic department was sport management first located during its establishment period in the early 1900s?

physical education

during which time period was the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) founded?

80's-90's

where did the huddle come from?

deaf players who would gather around to hide their signs form other team

in the 20'-40's sport management does not exist at this time. we have...

sport and then we have management

what happened within universities in the 20's-40's?

universities started offering a course or 2 in athletic administration as amateur sports organizations began to recognize a need to better train the people who ran their organizations

in the 50's-70's: interest from who began to create a demand for programs, not just courses, to train future sport managers?

Walter O'Malley

during what time period was when Americans had more leisure time and spending money because America was booming, that they took great interest in sports?

50's-70's

Who is Walter O'Malley?

owns Dodgers, he co-created the first sport management program at Ohio University

in what time period was there a massive growth in number of programs offering degrees in sport management?

80's-90's

during what time period, since the field of sport management developed a field, that it started influencing sports?

80's-90's

Jeremy McGuire Clip

- he is at a conference with other agents

- he thinks we are doing this all wrong by focusing on the money, not the relationships

- Tom Cruise

in what time period was sports seeking and maintaining legitimacy?

00's-10's

in what time period is sports management the most competitive it has ever been?

00's-10's

Money Ball Clip

- economists from ivy league schools are saying they can do it better

- fundamental tension between old school scouts and the new school scouts using computers/stats to choose a team/players

- adapt or die

Hooiser's Clip

- small town basketball team, underdog

- they made it to state championship

- get to play in a big area, they are in awe

- coach measures the goal and says that this is the same measurements of their gym at home

- 50's-70's

T/F: being a fan or sports is essential to being hired within the sports industry.

FALSE

Parks and Recreation clip

- swanson period of greatness

- overplaying what we will become

What is Muscular christianity? what did it do?

- began in England in the second half of 1800's and spread to America

- influenced beliefs that sports and fitness could be developmental contexts (YMCA)

- from religious standpoint: idea that pursuing athletic accomplishment was irrelevant

Who was influenced by muscular christianity?

pierre de coubertin

Who is Pierre de Coubertin?

French aristocrat who founded the IOC and modern Olympics

what is the modern Olympic movement driven by?

the notion that sports are developmental contexts for good

The Modern Olympics was first held in Athens, Greece in what year?

1896

"we believe that participation in sports can instill a number of developmental benefits, particularly with regard to the socialization of desirable outcomes"

- this is why we put tax dollars towards these things

- we believe that it can create health, social well-being, ... etc.

- we must be able to justify this investment and historically we have said yes, this is what we want to invest in

A lot of good things are reaped from being an active child which in turns becomes...?

- an active parent that influences their kids to be active

- most of us have benefitted from this

if our sport programs and teams are not identical, and individual participants are not identical, then how can our sport programs possibly produce identical outcomes?

- we treat sports as a one size fits all

- James Charles played in the Special Olympics because he had many learning disabilities

- we want to tailor training to everyone's needs, especially in the Special Olympics

it is not what sport cannot provide the benefits we talk about; it is that it does not do so uniformly or automatically. what ABOUT sport provides these benefits?

sports and the benefits can come more naturally to some than others

the _____ in which sport is played has a huge impact on developmental outcomes.

- setting

EX: sandlot

What are the Texas Playboys?

- sandlot revolution for adults in Austin

- they play each other

- about 10 teams

- Bowers plays

What team does Bowers play for?

Cap City Cobras

one of Bower's studies on the impact of playing sandlot/pickup sports found that organized and unstructured settings nurtured different outcomes like?

- more positive and mature relationships with community and sports

- our kids are not getting an unstructured feel

- by having access to these self-organized contexts- it altered the relationship with sports in general

aka more mature, community focused, facilitated development as athletes, they could push the limits of what they wanted to do

one of Bower's studies on the impact of playing sandlot/pickup sports organized and unstructured settings were found to impact what differently?

- creativity

- ~2 hours a week of informal sport resulted in above average creativity in kids

- gives kids a couple hours a week in their own self-organized games

- we will produce more creative kids

- we do not ask enough from sports and their benefits

think about how factors can play a major role in shaping development through sports participation. Here we see multi-sport athletes performing better in school. What else can play a role?

- these athletes score higher

different contexts and components of sport programs have more or less potential to provide particular kinds fo benefits. the key is what?

- the key is to think intentionally about each component of the sport program and to actively choose to implement those components in certain ways

- think about it in a different way

sports are ____

neutral

what are the dark sides of sport socialization?

- overemphasis on winning

- cheating

- drug abuse

- steroids

- gender roles

- psychological abuse

- early specialization

at too young of an age, we are emphasizing....

winning

winning does NOT have a developmental effect until you get into what age group?

12-13 year olds

We overemphasize tactical ____ to win. Not ___ practices

tactical strategies

developmental practices

Friday Night Tykes Clip

- elite level of football for kids

- all about winning

- trying to get the best out of people that might not be the best

- parents want the best for their kids but are extreme

Positive socialization emphasizes...

- process and development over winning/outcome

- we are so focused on winning, media, etc. that we lose sight of our goals

- we are focused too much on the things that are right in front of us, NOT bigger picture

How do we manage sport for positive socialization?

1. acknowledge that sport is a neutral developmental context

2. understand the purpose of your organization

3. develop goals that align with your purpose- and do so before you begin designing your program

4. apply systematic and intentional design to program in order to work towards goals

Top Golf is an example of

applying systematic and intentional design to program in order to work towards goals

youth sports get confused with the purpose of their organization. Why? What should they do?

- they think they need to create the next Lebron James

- they need to create the most good for the most amount of kids participating

even though sports are a neutral developmental context...

- they are powerful and significant in many things

- they can be good or bad

- it is important to acknowledge that everything can be better

- always can be IMPROVED

T/F: Socialization varies as a function of the design and delivery of the sport program

TRUE

- there is often failure to grasp this key thing though

- not all sport experiences are created equal

which of the following is NOT one of the 4 P's of the marketing mix?

- Product, Place, Promotion, People

People is NOT apart of the 4 P's of the Marketing Mix

What are the 4 P's of marketing?

- product

- price

- place

- promotion

an example of product would be...

First Tee's organization

Product in marketing should include...

life skills

what should be the price for First Tee's or any organization like it?

- low-to-no-cost

- this is important because if they want to reach populations/range of kids it is important that they do not lose people to cost

- impacts a lot of what we do

what are examples of promotions?

PSA's and fundraisers

human resources: what do core employees train their volunteers based on?

- set program curriculum

- rely heavily on interns and volunteers

- these employees are responsible for understanding and delivering that to others

What are advantages for media and public relations in sports?

- leverage strategic partnerships for media exposures

- lean heavily on this

- able to have a megaphone with this to reach a broader audience

Rickie Fowler commercial was an example of? what did this commercial do?

- media and public relationship

- served a function

- made golf cool again

- want to use public faces to promote organization

easy problems ____ but hard problems ______

evaporate

linger

what is thinking like a freak?

think more productively, creatively, rationally

what are the set of ideas for thinking like a freak?

1. incentives are the cornerstone of modern life

2. knowing what to measure, how to measure it can make a complicated world less

3. conventional wisdom is often wrong

4. correlation does not equal casualty

what is the economic approach?

relies on data rather than hunch or ideology

how does the economic approach work?

1. learn how incentives succeed or fail

2. how resources are allocated

3. what sort of obstacles prevent people from resources

4. concrete (food and transportation) or aspirational (education and love)

why do not a lot of people think like a freak?

- easy to let biases = political, intellectual, others will color your view

- adopt views of others, quick to embrace status quo, slow to change minds, happy to delegate thinking

- too busy to rethink the way they think

when people don't pay true cost to something, it tends to...

consume inefficiently

what are the 3 hardest words?

i don't know

what do we "know"?

- "known facts" aka scientifically verified

- "beliefs" things we hold to be true which may not be easily verified

- multidimensional cause and effect questions aka outcomes are both distance and nuanced

what is the attribute of someone who is bad at predicting?

dogmatism

what is dogmatism?

- unshakeable belief that they know something to be true when they don't

- people tend to be massively overconfident even when predictions are wrong

why are most economists predictions wrong?

too many economists' predictions fail because overestimate impact on future technologies

who is Thomas Sargent?

got a Nobel prize for his work measuring macroeconomic cause and effect

just because you are great at something does not mean you are good at everything

What is ultracrepidarianism?

habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence

in the real world, societal costs of faking can be....?

huge

making assumptions about our own abilities and failing to acknowledge what we don't know is a

disaster

why do people keep pretending if consequences are so damaging?

the cost of saying "idk" is higher than the cost of being wrong

what happens every time we pretend?

we are protecting our reputation rather than promoting the collective good aka you don't want to look dumb admitting you don't know

what is the reason why people make predictions?

PAYOFF

Incentives are TOO....

STRONG

when we solve problems what do we need to put away and why?

- put away moral compass

- this is because it is easy to lose track of what the issue actually is

what can your moral compass do?

can convince you that all answers are obvious but there is an obvious right and wrong

Who is David Lester?

psychology professor that studied suicide