Lynn University Sports Management

Congratulations to our Sports Management Club leadership and all of our sports management graduates!

Thanks to for hosting a great event and terrific panel for our students!

GIVING DAY! Link in bio! Help fund co-curricular events like this at the NCAA in Indianapolis!

Thanks to the incredible Jeremy Treatman of for joining us today in our Center Court Sports Speaker Series. Terrific internship opportunities for our sports management students!

That's a wrap from the NFL Combine. See ya next year, Indy!

Great seeing alum Michael Woo, ('11, '13) at the . Thanks for meeting w/our current students about your role at the national office. And, of course, we gotta stop by and see our men's golf banner at the NCAA Hall of Champions!

Thanks to Dr. Lynn Lashbrook, president of Portland, Oregon-based Sports Management Worldwide, for meeting with our students today! The meeting was in the Snyder Idea Lab, as part of the Center Court Sports Speaker Series. Dr. Lashbrook was in town for Super Bowl XLIV, as the player agent for Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Matt Moore.

We are blogging all week, live from the Final Four in Minneapolis. Today, we are in the media room at U.S. Bank Stadium, with a few hundred journalists...

These thoughts, from junior Chris Cohen, from Denver, CO:

In life, everybody knows two things exist: rules and change. Yet in sports, when rule changes are even discussed, people go crazy. Look at the fan backlash to recent rule-change announcements in Major League Baseball.

In college basketball, one of the most discussed rules relates to the paying of athletes.

“But amuterism!," some call out, resisting change. What those who are in opposition to the change fail to realize is that there already has been a change.

As Auburn University head coach Bruce Pearl points out, the value of a NCAA Division I men's basketball scholarship has risen in the last 20 years. He also points out how much a player’s value might rise while on scholarship, looking at Duke University freshman standout Zion Williamson as an example. “[Zion’s value is] a lot more now having spent a year at Duke.”

This comes as a result of Zion having gone to play college basketball at Duke as opposed to a smaller, lesser-known school. As a result, even without actually having been paid, his scholarship value is worth more than if he had gone elsewhere.

As the NCAA looks into the very real possibility of beginning to pay players, be it after their collegiate careers or game-by-game, the Association must consider if the team's value should affect the pay level, and if so, how much does it affect the pay, potentially giving basketball powerhouses like Duke an additional advantage.

A huge thanks to the one-and-only Laurence Leavy -- yep, that's Marlins Man! -- for meeting with our Lynn University sports management students. Fantastic lessons on marketing, sports law, licensing, and paying-it-forward!

A great week focusing on the business of baseball, with the kickoff of a Miami Marlins sales project, executive meetings at The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches (Nationals and Astros spring training home), and a presentation by Prospect Select. Experiential learning at its best!