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Watching Kevin Costner and the Yankees and White Sox enter the playing field through the corn last night was mesmerizing. The back and forth in the 9th inning kept everyone in their seats afraid to miss the action. It was a moment publicists would spend tons of money to create and last night it happenedContinue reading “Major League Baseball hits a Home Run in Iowa”

After browsing through help wanted ads looking over job titles, I was struck by the large number of positions listing relationship manager in their title. Numerous businesses and organizations are looking for a particular set of skills that can help their organization develop or maintain future business connections and opportunities. If a business or organizationContinue reading “Athletics is the Ultimate Relationship Management Job”

By Roger Ingles The NCAA self identifies as an organization focused on cultivating an environment that emphasizes academics, fairness, and well-being across college sports. The organization is going through turbulent times and some deep conversations after they lost in the Alston Supreme Court case. As the NCAA faces uncertain legal and legislative times moving forward,Continue reading “Division III Athletics Maintains True NCAA Mission”

by Roger Ingles / Executive Director / Executive Management Partners Colleges and universities, student-athletes and coaches, administrators and parents, lawyers, and agents are all trying to figure where we are in the NIL world today. In reality, no one really knows. The new NIL legislation and the rapidly changing world we face has been describedContinue reading “Name, Image and Likeness – Where are we today?”

By Roger Ingles A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” – Jackie Robinson Sports and business are similar in many ways. In fact, many terms from sports are used every day to describe events in organizations around the world. Team members are “pitching” a proposal to a client,Continue reading “Leadership Lessons Learned from Baseball”

“Normal is the Holy Grail and only those without it know its value.”  As the end of an awful year comes to a close, many are looking at the sports world at the various amateur, college, and professional levels and asking when will everything return to normal? At what point in 2021 should we expectContinue reading “Will 2021 be a normal sports year?”

Winning and losing are things every athletic staff members is expected to handle and learn to deal with within the team and athletic department setting. We learn this at an early age. Some people handle losses well and some do not. But seldom is the adversity of winning or losing what sets athletic staff membersContinue reading “Learning from Adversity in Athletics”

The Big Ten made a tough decision several weeks ago to postpone their fall seasons. The impact of that decision has been discussed at length in various media circles. To the outsider, the Big Ten made a decision that created a feeling of a lack of trust between their action and what the sports fan,Continue reading “Trust is a major factor to Big Ten decision”

The job market and our lives have changed dramatically during this pandemic. Prior to the pandemic the unemployment rates were low and employers competed to find the best available talent available from a pool of job seekers and could afford to be selective. We now face an economy with hundreds of thousands of employees whoContinue reading “Interviewing for a job during the pandemic”

You have worked at a place for several years and given blood, sweat and tears to your job. Going above and beyond the norm to ensure your organization has been successful. Your colleagues respect you and your staff works their tails off for you. You know the system and the system knows you. Then oneContinue reading “Time to consider other options”