Sports Management

DB10

Can anyone that has finished or is doing this course give some feedback?
What does it entail on a daily basis?
How hard is it?
What can you with the degree?
Is it enjoyable?
Any bad points?

DB10

Anyone??

MrKingsley

Hows it going.

Ive just finished 2nd year of the degree. Maybe the best way to do this would be for me to draw up a list of pros an cons.

Pros:
1. Broad course. Covering topics from coaching to economics to psychology of sport.
2. Knowledgable lecturers. All are up to date with recent sporting trends.
3. Its quite an easy course. you wont be pushed too hard in it
4. Very nice timetable (Except for the summer of 2nd year)

Cons:
1. The administrative staff are not the most helpful or friendly. Kind of like all schools in ucd.
2. Work Experience. Im currently doing this down in the UCD Sports Centre and its an absolute load of gash. 10 weeks, 400 hours and not a penny in my pocket.
3. Im not really sure if its a good degree with regards job hunting. mainly because it is quite a broad course.

Overall I would reccommend it but a lot of it depends on what sort of college experience you want.

Hope thats in some way useful.

Anythin else you want to no?

DB10

Thanks mate. Whats up with the timetable in the summer of second year??

Would you say it will be difficult to get work when you finish?

MrKingsley

its wen you have to do your work experience. its an absolute load of crap.

with regards future prospects im not sure how ill fare. This year they are bringing in a Sports Management masters program which could drag it out another year. I dont think ill be doin it because ill already have been in the place 5 years.

Im planning on getting into soccer coaching in the long run but ill probably be working in the more business side of things when i finish id say.

As i said in the previous post the course is extremely broad so you have experience in a lot of areas which can only be a good thing if jobs are still short then

DB10

thanks for the info. Best of luck..

MrKingsley

No bother.

Hope it was on some help. good luck

DB10

Bump. Can anyone advise me about this...

special consideration may be given to elite athletes and coaches wishing to pursue a career in sports management

Do many elithe athlethes/coaches do this course? I am nothing of the sort and just really like sports, I dont want to be out of place...will I be?

MrKingsley

No you wont be out of place at all. Most of the people in my class play a sport at a decent enough level but theres quite a few with just a general interest in sport.

The elite level athletes that theyre talking about would most likely be doing the diploma course.

DB10

Thanks again, and if you don't mind me asking what do you think of the college itself? I didn't manage to make it to the open day so didn't see the place.

I hear there is over 20,000 people in the college, that sounds daunting tbh. Ive heard stories that courses like arts can be very hard to make friends, is this course easier to get to know people with the smaller numbers?? Don't think any of my mates are going to ucd bar maybe 1, and I don't know anyone already there. If I get the points I hope it goes okay..:pac:

MrKingsley

It can be daunting enough yeah. But theres usually only 40/50 people in the Sports Management class. You can get to no people quickly enough. Id also assume that everyone would have an interest in sport so thats a good point to start an get to know people from.

I dont really like the college in general but ive been here 5 years now. If you decide to go to UCD id advise that you get straight into the socialising aspect. Cos the college certainly doesnt care for you if you dont!

damselnat

MrKingsley, you say you've been here 5 years and doing the sports mgt course, did you complete another course and then do it or switch from another course? Just wondering because I'm in the middle of another course atm which for various reasons I hate, and have finally finally realised I'm totally kidding myself and should have done something like the sports mgt, so I'm in two minds about whether to finish out the course I'm doing atm or to drop it and change, ideally I'd like to change but I don't know what the story is, whether it's worth changing now/whether I'd be daft not to change now and how you go about it. Obviously I'm going to head into campus and talk to student advisor or whoever I need to about it, but I was just curious to know what your experience was?!:o

MrKingsley

No bother Damselnat.

I came into ucd in 2005 to do arts. By Christmas i new i wouldnt be finishing the degree but everyone i spoke to told me to just sit the exams anyway even if i knew id fail them. So i did and failed 11/12. I did an internal transfer to get into the sports mgmt diploma which went on for 2 years and by getting the grades i got into 2nd year of the degree as a result.

One thing i would say about changing course is to do your exams anyway. The purpose of this, so i was told, was to not cut all ties with the place by just walking out and reapplying. you never no what admin staff your going to run into again if you do reapply.

Hope thats of use to you

damselnat

Thanks Kingsley, yeah I'm actually in the middle of second year of an economics degree, which sounds great, and is probably the reason I did it (that and parental pressure), but while I'm not failing I'm doing fantastically and I'm pretty miserable in the course and just want to get out, sports mgt much more my thing. How does the whole internal transfer thing work? It's just the pressure is on now as the CAO deadline is this Friday I think and my head's just in a total spin and I really don't know what to do! (and bricking it about fees as well, argh, not going to be a happy week with my parents:(:()

MrKingsley

I did the transfer through the admin building and the centre for sports studies. I didnt have to do anything with the cao cos i was already in ucd. That was for the diploma though. Id assume its similar for the degree.

Ill pm you the email of course coordinator. She be able to let you no about it in more detail im sure.

damselnat

Yeah, great, cheers for that!:)

DB10

Any of you guys care to estimate the points for the course this coming year?

09 - 380
08 - 380
07 - 395

Hopefully it wont go over 410....:(

kingkongking

hei everyone!

i got into this masters degree at ucd and i dont know much about it. is anyone in this course at present or graduated it or know someone who graduated etc? i would really like to find out a bit more before i decide...

- how are the job prospects? do graduates get good payd jobs and do they have to look for a long time?

- how is the course itself? i know it is organised in block weeks, but is it very demanding? how is the academic standard? what is the reputation on this degree in ireland?

if anyone could give me some feedback i would be really glad!!!

thank you!
marc