On Tuesday, September 7th, our class was pleased to welcome the second guest speaker of the year, Mr. Vic M.. He is currently working over at nearby Shorter University as the Senior Associate AD and head women’s basketball coach. First he gave us a little of his background information.
He attended the University of Georgia from where he earned his graduate and undergraduate degrees. After graduating with his initial degree, he decided to become a graduate assistant of the men’s basketball to help pay for schooling. He landed in a great position because at the time two future NBA players were on the roster, one of them including the “Human Highlight” a.k.a. Dominique Wilkins. Upon graduating he landed his first full-time job at Reinhardt University as a head basketball coach. He worked six years before moving on to Shorter in ’90 and hasn’t left since.
He was hired on to be the head women’s basketball and softball coach. From there on, he busted his butt to become the administrator he was striving to be. He soon started the cross-country and golf programs, which still compete today. It was definitely a better situation for him to succeed at Shorter than Reinhardt because of money/scholarship issues.
He stressed that if a person wanted to work for an institution then you have to put your personal opinions aside and abide by the institutions guidelines for success. Also, he pointed out that before taking a job at any position, you should know the most details about it. That was one of the problems he ran into when taking the Reinhardt job, but he made the most of it and made it work regardless. He also mentioned that to be a good administrator you have to be able to do three things: 1) Be a great delegator. 2) Hire "good" people. 3) Trust that who you hire can get the job done without looking over their shoulder constantly.
Vic also gave us plenty of statistics of how Shorter has grown since he has been there and also talked about a lot of different reasons that it has been so successful. The backbone of the “success” was of course money but that is the backbone of any success in terms of organizations making and having to meet budgets. Vic helped me to understand a little bit of what a Sports Administers job are and its definitely doing more than just one thing all of the time. From just listening and talking with him for a short time, I can tell that he is a “good” person…maybe that’s why he is so successful!
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