Jeff Vinik and Judy Genshaft press conference?

[KB]

Looks like we took a professor from UCF?

William A. Sutton, EdD, who has been at the DeVos Sport Business Management Graduate Program at the University of Central Florida since 2004, will join USF to direct the MBA in Sport and Entertainment Management. A distinguished academician and proven sports-marketing practitioner, Sutton's body of work includes notable academic appointments and extensive industry experience. Sutton has authored more than 200 articles and has made more than 250 national and international presentations. He is a past president of North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) is a founding member and past President of the Sport Marketing Association (SMA) and the Sport Marketing Quarterly – a publication where he has also served as the co-editor.

[&rew Bull]

This program was already listed on the COBA website. I saw it last night when I was looking at our MBA programs. In any case, exciting news!

[KB]

Looks like a great program. Congrats to Judy, COBA, and the Lightning for pulling this off. I could see this attracting some good students.

[Reliable Source]

Wonder if we could get the Bucs interested that would make this even crazier good.

[charsibb]

Shameless self bump... announcement coming soon...

SOON

Soon you'll be coming out of the closet??

Seriously though, this is a good degree. I'll announce it in class next week - several of my business students are on sports teams.

[Skingraft]

Screw the Glazers; let's get a Ross connection going...McGregoer can hook us up

[Cow Pie]

Bout time USF added this program... virtually every other University in Florida has it, even Saint Leo has it.

From what I understand in general its a major revenue generating program for the University, but has a super low post graduation placement rate in its field. Afterall there are only so many professional sports teams and arenas, and as such turn over in their areas is very, very, very low.

[SRQ]

and it pays didly in the lower echelons

[tomgreen558]

You know, i've never understood the "go straight into an MBA program from undergrad" theory. These degrees should be for studens who are interning with, or have a "lower echelon" job with a sports team. If anything it strengthens their chances for promotion in their current field, and opens them up to opportunities (should they chose to take them) outside of the state - if you aren't willing to relocate after getting this MBA - it seems kind of pointless imho

[KB]

Not sure what this is....Lightning Bolt and Go Bulls at the same time?