Dialogue: Membership you believe is best for FTC
Dialogue: Membership you believe is best for FTC
1A. Describe which membership you believe is best for FTC: NJCAA, NAIA, or NCAA DIII. 1B. Clarify and defend your place.
2A. In your opinion, what is an important issue Stanley ought to contemplate when making his advice? 2B. Why?
3A. In researching the assorted choices, Stanley surveyed 5 key stakeholder teams: coaches, school and employees, college students, student-athletes, and alumni. Which stakeholder group’s opinion needs to be most valued when making the choice whether or not to reclassify athletic divisions? 3B. Which stakeholder group’s opinion needs to be least valued? 3C. Are there some other stakeholder teams who ought to have been consulted? In that case, who and why?
4A. FTC sought to make the most of athletics to extend its institutional status. Do you believe this to be a prudent route? 4B. What position, if any, ought to athletics play in enhancing an establishment’s profile?
5A. Assume FTC decides to pursue membership within the NAIA or NCAA DIII. Ought to the establishment decrease its admissions requirements to accommodate athletics? 5B. Why or why not? 5C. Moreover, ought to FTC create a brand new bachelor’s diploma program to accommodate athletes enrolled in 2-year diploma packages who would in any other case be ineligible (for NCAA DIII competitors)? Why or why not?
6A. Assume FTC decides to pursue membership within the NAIA or NCAA DIII and extra athletic department-generated revenues (e.g., ticket gross sales, licensing, and many others.) by no means materialize. Consequently, FTC athletics can be experiencing appreciable monetary constraints as bills are routinely exceeding revenues. As athletics director, how would you suggest this case be addressed? 6B. Would you suggest rising pupil charges, deactivating sure sport choices, reducing competitions, or another plan of action?
