SPT 404 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric

Overview

Here, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

• Develop a personal style of athletic representation through exposure to basic negotiating tactics and skills
• Develop negotiating skills for arranging contracts within the parameters of professional collective bargaining agreements
• develop recruiting strategies for successful networking with various sports stakeholders
• Apply ethical and legal concepts to current issues of player representation, including financial and marketing strategies

Prompt

Congratulations! You and your sport agency firm have been selected to represent an athlete as he or she becomes a free agent. As the athlete's representation, you are to make an 8-10-minute narrated media presentation to a specific organization's general manager and ownership representatives that markets your client in the best manner possible. Your presentation must be professionally done in slide format using a variety of techniques within the slide presentation. The presentation is a bid to obtain a contract for your client and should state clearly why the organization you are presenting to would want to invest in your client. Your final presentation should be submitted as a slide presentation using PowerPoint.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

1. Communication: The student must effectively represent the client, communicating visually and verbally in an effective manner while demonstrating basic negotiating tactics and skills.
2. Knowledge: The student must demonstrate an understanding of:
   1. The sport that the athlete plays
   2. The athlete that he or she is representing
   3. The collective bargaining agreement of the sport that the athlete plays
   4. The current industry contract trends
3. Organization: The student must develop an organized and professional presentation that maximizes the strengths of the client.
4. Laws and Ethics: The student must develop an organized and professional presentation that follows all legal and ethical guidelines.
5. Strategy:
   1. Recruiting Strategies: The student will demonstrate effective and stimulating recruiting strategies while presenting his or her client to potential general managers and ownership representatives.
   2. Financial Strategies: The student will demonstrate effective and stimulating financial strategies while presenting his or her client to potential general managers and ownership representatives.
   3. Marketing Strategies: The student will demonstrate effective and stimulating marketing strategies while presenting his or her client to potential general managers and ownership representatives

Milestones

Milestone Two: Data Collection In Module Four, the student will submit a couple pages that will list the critical data that will be used as part of the negotiation in the bid to obtain the contract for the athlete. This document should include a list of three primary and three secondary sources that will be used in the final presentation. A summary of the content of each source should be provided as well as an analysis of how these sources will be used. As part of this milestone, draft the second set of 3-5slides that will include the topics outlined in Section V of the Final Project Document. Instructor feedback should be incorporated into the final presentation. This milestone is graded with the Milestone Two Rubric.

Milestone Three: Presentation Draft In Module Five, the student will submit a draft of the final narrated presentation (8-10 slides with references). This submission will allow the instructor to provide feedback to the student regarding the direction and quality of the presentation. Instructor feedback should be incorporated into the final presentation. This milestone is graded with the Milestone Three Rubric.

Final Submission: Professional Presentation In Module Seven, the student will submit the final narrated presentation (8-10 slides with references). The presentation should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final project. The final presentation should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course as well as a demonstration of the student knowledge of the critical elements of the project. This milestone will be graded using the Final Project Rubric.