Social Media Analysis On Sports

Along with the game, or match, as a whole being a factor in the social media changes, social media sites also help connect the athletes themselves with their fans. Social networking has become a large part in recruiting athletes at the collegiate level, along with their behavioral decisions while being a student athlete on campus. At the University of North Carolina, the scandal of a couple of football players posting inappropriate photos on Twitter became public due to UNC failing to monitor social media posts by their student athletes (Bowles np). Similarly, social media resulted in trouble for the University of Alabama after their decision to accept friend requests of potential recruits prior to the allowed date of contact (Bowles

People watch sports all year long. They decide who they think is the best team and then they support that team. If they think their team is better than another, but they encounter a fan of the opposite team, hostilities ensue over their differences in opinions. But when the actual

The National College Athletic Association, better known as the NCAA has been involved in constant turmoil for quite some time now. In the college sports world, there are two variant sides by which neither can come to a final decision. Those side are for and against paying college athletes for participation. While some agree that “coaches are paid too much for players to be struggling to buy food” (Connolly), some actually seem to disagree. Agree or disagree, the athletes deserve a resolution because the longer the issue, the longer the struggle. The two side fail to realize that their arguments and discord does

Affection, and value are how KU fans feel towards basketball and the document of the rules. Nevertheless, according to the article, “Sympathy for the Blue Devils: There’s No Place Like Home, “Swade’s belief that he’s on an almost biblical quest would be comical if he weren’t so obnoxious”(Bellamy 1). However, the author of this article is biased towards Duke. Describing Swade as obnoxious is one example of the bias Bellamy includes throughout his article. No facts are used to prove that Swade’s behavior is obnoxious whatsoever. In fact, Swade’s behavior shows how determined he was to bring the rules back to their rightful home. Obnoxious or not, Swade and other KU fans had sentimental feeling towards the document of rules that would have made innumerable amounts of KU fans disappointed if the rules were not placed safely back in Lawrence, Kansas. Correspondingly, the affectionate feelings KU had towards the rules and basketball tied together the reasoning to bring the rules back to their rightful home in Lawrence,

The popularity of college sports and its value to entertainment is skyrocketing. The NCAA is the head organization in control of a hundred billion dollar industry. The disgusting disparity arrives at the difference between what

An example of this connection is presented when Williamson describes how “Indiana’s Bobby Knight, seeking to clean house after a disappointing 1996-97 season, drove starting point guard Neil Reed out of town with one year of eligibility remaining. Reed left, but not before accusing Knight of physical and emotional abuse.” This example helps Williamson to show the reader that coaches, driven by hunger for victory and money, now are succumbing to the desire for wealth. Bobby Knight drove Niel Reed out of his team because Niel Reed wasn’t “up to par” and didn’t help the team enough for them to have a successful season. This makes the reader understand the harm and pain caused by Knight’s actions, and presents a situation that the reader could possibly relate to and subsequently feel more connected to; thus persuading the reader to obey the call to action used by Williamson in the last paragraph.

After I watched two hours of intense play and the huddle split, I observed high fives and complex handshakes of some sort. “Hampton on three. Hampton on three. ONE, TWO, THREE, HAMPTON!” They started coming my way; as an ex-basketball player, deep down I yearned for a handshake or some kind of acknowledgment, but I sat there like a fork in the road. Each member parted around me to my left and to my right, some giving head nods and some giving nothing at all. I quickly realized that I was clearly not a part of this discourse community.

Belongingness is one of those needs. People have a desire to be accepted by their peers, have friendships, be a part of a group, and be loved (Daft, pg. 230). Coach K has the ability to recognize those needs especially when he acknowledges players and recognizes them when the execution of a game plan leads to a game win. This is done in the locker room in front of their peers and on national television after a victory. As long as he continues to meet this basic need of the players he will continue to bring victories to the Duke Basketball program. For the team, this intrinsic reward was immediate when Duke achieved the victory over UNC at Cameron Indoor Stadium that night.

In writing to specific audiences, this research will be focused towards giving information to student athletes, college fans, and athletic departments across the nation. The research will focus on whether student athletes receive what they should rightly receive now or do they deserve more and if so how does that work from an athletic department

The intended audience is NCAA staff, as well as college advisors and coaches. Unlike the other articles, this one is highly opinionated; however, it is backed up with facts. There is a focus here only on the revenue generating sports of men’s basketball and football. The author believes that fans that frequent sporting events are hurting programs more than helping them. He claims that giving support to teams that likely break rules only continues to give them the needed resources to engage in fraudulent activity. The author also mentions many people criticize college athletics, referring to them as a business. He argues that the NCAA has moved its focus away from protecting athletes and coaches to simply trying to make money. Weber refers to college athletics as a currency, in regard to the money it brings to the school, as well as the value of scholarships many athletes receive. While the increased GPA requirements and test scores put in place were praised by the author, he still believed priorities were not being put in the right place. In one instance, Steve Spurrier, former football head coach at the University of South Carolina, threatened to leave the football program after these reforms. Many athletes had been admitted and offered a place on the team before the change in rules, but were told their acceptances were being pulled due to new

He asks the question, “How much more garbage will college basketball take from this person” (Watts 1)? I will not argue with Watts that Bobby Knight practices poor behavior from time to time. The choking of a player and assaulting of individuals has no place in society, never the less college athletics. Watts feels that a permanent timeout and firing is the answer to end the negative image portrayed by coach Knight. He feels Knight needs to be removed from his coaching duties and denied the excuses that have been given to him for countless years: “He is just a competitive driven individual.” This clique has been the support and back bone for Bobby Knight for many years.

College Football and Basketball, millions of people tune in every weekend to watch the endless amount of towering athletes hitting each other for our amusement. To many people it is a break from ordinary life. A chance to come together and celebrate a tradition that has evolved over a period of time. For others, just the thought of living vicariously through athlete accomplishments on the field, can bring a sense of joy. The ideology of college sports has been passed down through generations, ever changing, to resemble what it is today. Encompassing and expanding a more diverse base of people that range from the casual to diehard fan. There are constant debates on whether student athletes are merely being used as puppets in the grand scheme of obtaining the almighty dollar.

Phillip Jackson is known as one of the best NBA head coaches of all time due to he had to lead the Chicago Bulls to six titles and the Los Angeles Lakers to three titles. Before Phil became known as a great head coach, he was an ordinary athlete. Jackson recruited to North Dakota University basketball team. While attending the college, he helped his team win third-and-fourth-place finishes in the NCAA Division II championships. Coach Jackson understands the only collecting a set of outstanding players will not make a championship team. His approach was the problem or project having components in four different spheres which are Mental, logical, scientific, technical and Systems or how the parts all connect and interact,.Emotional, feelings, intuition, and.Ethical, spiritual and issues of being. Phil Jackson assumes the players have the technical and techniques. Therefore he emphasizes the spiritual in developing the team. Jackson had seven feet plus a former pro player to coach other physical specimens in the finer points of connection magnificent setting. The most important was to understand that the individuals on the team must transform their view of themselves to connect to others to create a synergy of teamwork.

That being said, Jackson, who would remain calm on the sideline while his team was having a meltdown in front of him, was a self proclaimed hot-head that really hated to lose (Jackson, 2013, p. 25). After losing to the Orlando Magic, he got so angry that he “shaved off most of his hair and stomped around the room,” taking more than an hour to finally relax. The image that Nater and Gallimore portray of John Wooden throughout their book leads me to believe that Wooden would never behave in this way, even if he was upset by a particularly frustrating

ACC teams and individual athletes have won numerous national titles, including most recently Clemson University wining the FBS National Championship game against the Alabama Crimson Tide from the SEC conference. The ACC was founded on May 8th, 1953 in Greensboro, NC, by seven universities located in the south Atlantic States. The conference continued to grow and spread, eventually growing into a fourteen-school conference. These school members represent a range of private and public colleges and universities. The mission of the ACC is, “To maximize the educational and athletic opportunities that shape our leaders of tomorrow – in the classroom, in competition, and in life.” In addition, the vision statement is, “To be at the forefront of educational