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I saw the Sports Management major at a university I am thinking of attending, and I was just wondering what other jobs and careers one could have with that degree? Being a manager of a pro sports team is about as selective as being a player of the sport itself, and even with minor league teams and such, it’s still a competitive job. So what are other options?

Careers with Sport Management degree are as followed:

Sports Agent
The sports agent is a professional who guides an athlete through his professional career. Athletes generally sign with an agent at the end of their college career. Agents work to market the athlete and recommend courses of action for those they represent. They also help negotiate contracts, including salary negotiations, and additional contract options and help make provisions for potential injuries for the player.
The sports agent typically has top-notch communication, multitasking and negotiation skills. He should be very knowledgeable about investments, business management and financial analysis and be up to date on trends in the sports he represents. Sports agents often work long hours, but also demand high salaries that typically equal a percentage of the client’s pay.

General Manager/Coach
The general manager or coach of a sports team is an option for graduates with sports management degrees. These careers range from high school sports coaches to general managers of professional franchises.
The coach is responsible for teaching fundamentals and advance techniques of a team or individual sport. Coaches are in charge of practices and make the on-the-field decisions during games, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
General manager (GM) is responsible for business aspect of team organization in professional sports. GM is typically involved with contract negotiations, hiring and firing of coaching staff and managing entire staff on behalf of owner.

Athletic Director
An athletic director is a department head within a college or university system or high school. The athletic director is the person responsible for oversight and administration of all athletic programs, intramural organizations and recreation. She is also in charge of the school’s sports facilities in most instances.
It is athletic director’s job to ensure compliance with all applicable rules and laws regarding the athletic department and to maintain funding and budgetary responsibility for all athletic programs. At the secondary-school level, the athletic director does all of the above and typically coaches one sport. In some smaller colleges this is the case.

Event or Facility Manager
Some sports management degree holders choose to get into facility management. Arenas and fields where sports regularly take place need people to manage them and ensure proper maintenance of the facility. Event or facility manager is the person for job. He manages staff that operates and maintains venue and aworks to book events and negotiate event contracts with sports teams or other organizations.
This job is often done by the athletic director in high schools and colleges, but professional sports often have a third-party manager of the facility in which they play.

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The data rate says it all: MiniDv= 13 gigs/hour for 720X480 while the highest resolution H264 is 11gigs/hour to record almost twice the pixel information.

True High-Def rings in around $6000. Cameras for production run about the price of a small house.

I have paid $1500 for a used Canon GL-2 and would gladly do so again before I spent $1000 on a H264 camcorder. Similar cameras can easily be found for under $800. I found a like-new Canon XL-2 for less than $1000 several months ago.

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