Does Your Choice of College Determine Your Success? Work in Sports Podcast - a podcast by Brian Clapp - Work in Sports

Where you choose to go to school is extremely important, but does it determine your career success? We investigate.  Hi everybody, I’m Brian Clapp, Director of Content for WorkinSports.com and this is the Work in Sports podcast.I’ll admit March Madness kind of snuck up on me this year. I was trying to book a guest for the show and her publicist said: “She’s at the conference tournament all next week and then on the March madness – can we wait until after that?”Of course, I played it off, sure sure sure, but in my head, I was thinking…wait we’re in March already?Then we sprung forward our clocks last night, so when I got up with my daughter this morning to take her to school it was pitch black… I’m all out of whack.Tangent.I’m a weirdo, so I decided to read a bunch of articles on this history purpose and intention of the daylight savings shift.I’ve always thought that it was related to farming, more daylight hours for the farmers, which if you think about it makes no sense because farmers can regulate their schedule based on available sunlight, not what the clocks say… it’s not like they punch in and punch out, and furthermore, it’s not like changing the time on the clock provides more sunlight… it just hits at a different time of day.Anyway – I’m enjoying this tangent so I’m going to continue. Fact: people are more active in the daylight, which means they spend more money. Adding the hour of daylight to the evening, versus the morning, dramatically increases consumer spending.To tie this into sports – way back in 1986, when even I was only in 6th grade -  the golf industry argued that an extra month of daylight savings would increase their revenue by 200-400 million per year – just one month! Adjusted for today’s economy that’s 450 to 900 million for one month of daylight savings!You’ll hear people share that it was a move to reduce energy consumption – the theory being people awake during the time of most daylight would result in fewer lights being turned on etc. …but over time that has been debunked.A Yale economist found that there was actually a 1% increase in energy consumption when Indiana switched to daylight savings time statewide in 2006 - estimating a cost of $9 millionI guess Ben Franklin forgot to include air conditioning in his economic forecasts.How’s that for a tangent this Monday morning! Nothing wrong with being curious about things that aren’t just sports.Alright on to today’s question ---Daniel from New Hampshire –“Hi Brian – big fan of your podcast, I’m a high school junior and our entire athletic department and all of my friends listen as often as we can.  I’m starting to narrow the field for my coming college decisions, I want to major in sports management, and pursue a career in Major League Baseball. What suggestions do you have for this process and how I should go about it?”Daniel, great question, in fact, I get this one about once or twice a week, so it feels like a good time to have this conversation again.For all of you who are already in college, or grad school, or out of school – there are parts of this conversation that will be extremely relevant to you as well, so don’t tune out. For those of you with education decisions still ahead of you… buckle up and listen.A little history lesson to start. When I want to college in the early ’90s there was really no such thing as a Sports Management degree. There were business and management courses, but nothing with a focus on sports.In fact, between 1980-2010, the number of undergraduate sports management programs grew from just three in the U.S…. to over 300.I just did some quick research on our sister site DegreesinSports.com and they have over 600 sports-related...

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