Basketball General Manager and Scouting Course

[durvasa]

http://www.sportsmanagementworldwide.com/coursedescription_basketballgm.asp

For anyone who's interested in becoming an NBA GM and has $1,450 to spend, here's the course for you!

[Ziggy]

So you are saying if I take that degree to Rockets mgmt they won't laugh at me?

[LegendZ3]

I would take that course just so the next time I put forth my Rafer, Novak, and Francis for LeBron trade, nobody would dare to laugh at me again.

[Sooner423]

Is this stuff legit? It seems a little iffy, but when I had seson tickets for the Hornets the guy who kind of took care of us and other season ticket holders said he went to some sports management school in Oregon. Has anyone here done anything like that?

Edit: I think this is the site for it. http://www.gamefacesportsjobs.com/ Looks pretty legit to me. I might check it out.

[yaomania]

When I worked at the Rockets, a few of our employees came to us from Game Face - but my feeling was that most of them ended up working in sales - sponsorship, tickets, suites - instead of what most people think of as sports front office jobs (scouting, etc.)

If you want my advice - if you want to get into the basketball side of a front office, learn how to build and manage databases.

[tsunami]

http://www.sportsmanagementworldwide.com/coursedescription_basketballgm.asp

For anyone who's interested in becoming an NBA GM and has $1,450 to spend, here's the course for you!
they must guarantee to find a gm position for me after I completed the course. Otherwise I wanna my money back 100% :D

[poprocks]

Go to the Isaih School of NBA Managment :D

[emjohn]

$1500 price tag isn't so outlandish. Price of a decent vacation. If they can teach interesting behind the scenes tidbits, I don't know that I won't be interested. Maybe they could teach me about double negatives.

guest facilitators Chad Ford...
Oh no.

Evan

[Showtizzle2642]

thanks you guys so much for this info i have wanted my career to be in sports management for so long but had no idea where to start.

1st finish school
2nd attended saud courses
3rd patience
4th enjoy my career and looking forward to work everyday
5th tell everyone that clutchfans.net was the place that got me started :D

[SirCharlesFan]

FWIW, the only people I've known to actually work in front office jobs w/professional sports team actually went to college and got sports management degrees. It seems pretty hard to get a job for some people, though. I have a buddy who is real smart and even got a masters degree in sports management from LSU. It took him a couple of years to find a job and after all that it was in minor league baseball. I doubt taking an online course is going to do much for your resume.

[Showtizzle2642]

what schools offer degrees in sports management? there seems to be a slim amount to me

[LFE171]

Chad Ford's an instructor. Interesting.