Today, Jonathan and I️ moved onto our third and final site. We met with Mr. Smith of Vanguard sports agency this morning around 9 am. Vanguard sports agency is a growing agency that represents players from basketball, football, and baseball. They handle their financial and legal deals of being a professional athlete. After this quick description, he explained to us about how to sports world is actually quite a complicated business and explained some stories of his experience. He also told us that he never knew what would happen to him on a day to day basis because everything was always changing, as things would in the sports world. Vanguard was created 4 years ago and had now grown to 3 different sports. He told us about his job, as well as his career that led to what he does now. He explained to us about the marketing side of being a sports agent, and how media deals with the players are extremely important for any sports agency. After a long and descriptive question and answer process, Mr. Smith gave us a project, something that would get our heads thinking about sports management as a whole. This is what Jonatan and I worked on the rest of the day today and will be working on tomorrow, leading to another meeting with Mr. Smith on Thursday. I️ will explain this “project” or “exercise” in tomorrow’s blog post since that is when we will primarily get i️t done. It was a fun day!
