Class - Dec. 5, 2012

I did my presentation on buzhub.

Justin did a presentation on his business idea and website.
Coaches Connect
Its a social site where coaches and players can meetup online. They get coaching via videos and messaging.

Class - Monday Dec. 3, 2012

Joe - Animation and Martial Arts

• 24 frames per second in animation
• 120 movements in a punch 
• When a punch is thrown the body is twisting and moving.
• Each movie has its owns physics programmed into it.

Class - Nov. 19, 2012

*Next week we will present our projects we just turned in. 

• This will be MWF all class.
• We will each have 10 to 15 min to present.
• It will be helpful to have a powerpoint to help explain your idea.

In class we watched a movie by 60 minutes. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57551554-10391709/behind-the-scenes-with-michigan-football/

Discussion topics in class from the video:

• Corporate relationships and fandom
• Funding of college sports 
• Psychological effect on individuals
• Relationship of academics
• Branding through athletics (donations)
• Fairness, special treatment and compensation
• Recruitment
• Boosters
• TV, media, social media
• What is the role of sports?

Class - Monday 11/05/12

DUE WEDNESDAY - OUTLINE

Outline:

• Introduction
• Thesis
• Explain how it relates to the 2 disciplines
• Discipline 1
• Theory
• Application
• Discipline 2
• Theory
• Application
• Apply 2 Disciplines to Topic
• Interdisciplinary
• Conclusion
• This needs to be how you proved or demonstrated your thesis, be thinking about your reader. Sum up it all up for them. What did they learn?

Outline details:

• Has to have your sources.
• Do your work for D1, D2, INTS, then write your thesis.
• The thesis is like a movie trailer. Its made after the movie is made.
• Have a PRINTED copy of the outline to turn in Wednesday.
• Martha will be going over them with us and directing us to the next step.

Mallory
Comm and pop management
Business perspective on high school sports.

Lexi
Scouting saber metrics how they are implemting in recruiting. Psy

Jackson

Matt

Garret
How and why baseball has become a past time. Bus and comm

Wes

Emma

Nick
Business plan on a golf camp in st George.

Jerico
Persuasion and recruiting.

Chris
bus comm performance enhancing drugs and pro baseball.

Justin
Web comm Psy.
Going to show this on his sites.

Joe
Animation and martial arts techniques art vt

Dre

Class - Wednesday 10/17/2012

Matt and Jackson Presented today

Matt talked about the economics of sports players.
Jackson talked about Jose Conseco and his steroid abuse.
He applied the different aspects of PSY

• behavior
• cognitive
• personality

He then went through the different aspects and applied Consecos steroid use to them.

Class - Monday 10/15/2012

What is the goal of this class;

• Show competence in discipline 1
• Show competence in discipline 2
• Show the ability to integrate.

We need to complete an outline to set up a platform to work from.

• 
  

• State
• counties
• 
  
• 
  
• cities
• 
  
• 
  
• towns
• 
  
• 
  
• neighborhoods

You use a hierarchy.

Class - 9/28/2012

Joe and Nick had a presentation on Martial arts.
Joe talked about kinematics
Nick covered Biomechanics

Class - Wednesday 09/26/2012

We had a class presentation today.
The group presented Golf.

Steve - Player Attributes

Wesley - Equipment

Matt - Swing


The rest of the group will be going Friday, and also the next group.

My group which is Football helmets presents Monday.

Class - Friday 09/21/2012

Plagiarism: using the words or thoughts of someone else without giving credit.

"Do your own freaking work." Martha

Just lie two people can work together and create something like Google, your two disciplines can work together and help you develop your ideas.



Jericho was assigned the task in class to decide what topics we would choose for our assignments.

• Basketball
• Football
• Golf 
• Baseball

We were grouped into groups of 3 and one group of 4.
My group is Football.

Monday will be a lab day, our group will present the following Monday.

Class - Wednesday 09/19/2012

Today we had our final group presenting.
Sports and Physics

Mallory - Basketball
Mallory went over the different statistics and how they are improved through analysis. We talked about free throws in the NBA and how in 1960 they were 68% and in 1965 it was 69%.  They wanted to know from that point why it has not gone up.
A mechanical engineer developed what he said was the perfect free throw.

• Aim at the backboard
• back spin 3 revolutions
• 52 degree angle
• This is for a 6'6'' player
• Players can increase accuracy by 20%

Nick - Golf
Nick went through newtons laws and how they apply to the golf swing. The golf swing can be broken down and analyzed. They take pictures during a swing and then can see how accuartely you match the perfect swing.



Anna - NFL
Anna talked about the NFL and applied Newtons laws to it. She took the pythagorean theorem and applied it to a sideline run  and how the defense needs to calculate the C^2  to make sure they are where they need to be. Then also talked about what mass is needed to stop the force. She also talked about the football and how cars resemble the same shape.

Chris - Soccer
Chris showed a video on the soccer goalie. The time the goalie has to react is such very tiny window.

Lexie - Baseball
Lexie talked about the different pitches and why they occur. She talked about how the air resistance and the stitching on the ball create these effects.



For Next class bring a scholarly article.

Class - Monday 09/17/2012

We talked about our Group Presentations and how they could be improved.

• We need to be very clear on what discipline we are using.
• For our personal presentations we need to be very clear
• Need to know the theories and theorists of your discipline
• Approach your senior project with clearly defined theories in business and IT.

Research Methods that each discipline uses. Approach questions using this.

Business

• Case Study
• Qualitative and Quantitative

IT

• Scientific method; Hypothesis, testing...
• Theories of computing

VT

• Polls and groups to test certain visual elements.

Friday we need to have a topic. This topic will be reseached as a group.

Class - Friday 09/14/12

Friday Presentation
Fandom

Steve Sinclair
Vesectomys go up during March Madness, people plan on sitting around.
Steve talked about how March Madness is very consuming. He talked about the pros and cons of it. The con was that workers are going to be much less productive during this time. They are more focused on the sports and less on their jobs. The pros were that it actually gave the workers something to bond over. People need to feel connected and to be a part of something. Sports are a way for people to actually bond and feel a sense of connection.

Justin
Social Identity Theory, sports actually play a huge part in who you are. For males it is very important for them to be popular and socially accepted. Women also but now as much. The teams you choose and follow usually have something in common. Geographic location, TV channels available, local radio, and others in the community will usually help define who you follow.

Jackson
Sports and religion
A true fan has sports revolving around every aspect in his life. People actually get the same feeling from a sporting event as they would from a religious ceremony. They use a lot of the same words, sacrifice, prayer, etc.

Derek

The business of baseball
types of fans

1. temporary
2. local
3. fanatic
4. disfunctional

Class - Wednesday 09/12/12

Presentation Day - Youth

Name Type of Article Topic
Dre Scholarly Business, NCAA, Camps, AAU
Wes Contemporary Psychology
Joe Scholarly Psychology, Expectancy Theory
Jerico Scholarly, Contempory Biology
Robert Other Psychology Steroids, burnout

Dre - 
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_44/b4201113294148.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/story/2012-07-20/ncaa-investigating-more-aau-teams/56370470/1

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1253430-college-athletic-recruiting-how-young-is-too-young

Wes -  
http://www.familyresource.com/parenting/sports/problems-in-youth-sports

Joe - 
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=5e0c0e40-212f-4a71-af36-5ad2288ef02c%40sessionmgr113&vid=2&hid=125

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=63d2fefa-31b0-465e-a453-da5d8f2bb372%40sessionmgr114&vid=2&hid=125.

Jericho - 
http://synapse.princeton.edu/~brained/redshirting/Do-physical-maturity-and-birth-date-predict-talent-in-male-youth-ice2.pdf

http://synapse.princeton.edu/~brained/redshirting/Carling_Article_anglais2.pdf

Robert -
Pushing to Hard Too Young http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4556235/ns/health-childrens_health/t/pushing-too-hard-too-young/#.UFCiW1zy-yU

Kids on Steroids Willing to RisK it all for Success
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22984780/ns/health-childrens_health/t/kids-steroids-willing-risk-it-all-success/#.UFCmBVzy-yU

Class - Monday 09/10/12

For Wednesday and Friday Classes

Two groups Youth and Fandom

Wednesday Presentation:
Youth sports and recruiting

2 Scholarly Articles
2 Contempory
2 Other Sources


Friday Presentation:

Fandom

2 Scholarly Articles
2 Contempory
2 Other Sources

I am in Wednesdays group with:
Jericho
Joe
Wes
Dre

Class - Wednesday 09/05/12

Lets just get pizza attitude...

We talked today about the "lets just order pizza" attitude students have. The purpose of college classes should be more than just to get through it. This class specifically is designed  so that we gain competence in both disciplines. Also to show how the two can be integrated.

We then talked about what makes up a discipline.

• subject
• perspective
• research methodology
• theories

We then briefly talked about Jackie Robinson and his involvement with MLB.

No Class Friday, go to the new building dedication if you want.

Get caught up on all the readings for monday.

Class - Friday 08/31/12

Muhammad Ali Then and Now

Today's class we reviewed the readings for Boxing
My group was assigned: Muhammad Ali Then and NowWe got in a group and discussed three topics and how they related to the article.

• Religion
• Race
• Psychology

Religion

There were several instances that brought up Ali's religion. Two of them needed to be noted. The first was his name change. Ali's influence and belief in the Muslim religion sparked this change of name. The second was when Ali refused to be drafted. He believed so much in his cause that he allowed his title to be stripped from him.

Race
Ali grew up in a time and area that was still racially sensitive. His comedy and joking reflect his view on society. His overall jokingness allows us to peer into a deeper side of his views on race.

Psychology
Ali's had the mentality of a champion. This was not something learned. From a very early age Ali was not doubting of his abilities and what he was going to achieve. He was said to quote have " control over emotion, great vitality, showmanship, charm."

Boxing

Shadow Boxing III

Read the full article posted by ESPN:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=091216/jimmyrobinson

Disciplines and some Questions:

• Psychology: Why is it that Sweet Jimmy constantly referred to the past?
• Neurology: What is the brain damage of a boxer compared to a person in the NFL
• Communication: How are legacy's created? What keeps them alive?

Thoughts:

This is a very interesting article. It really makes you reflect on your own life and why you exist or even matter. Who are the people that are going to remember you? Why are they going to remember you? what are you going to be for doing in your life? 

What was the author getting out of this search? What was it that drove him so hard looking for this person? What about this story was so compelling for him?

Sport for Art's Sake II 

Class - Wed 8/29

Todays class was a review/discussion on the the articles related to brain injury.

It was mainly focused in this direction but the main focus turned into information integration.

When we are learning new information or concepts we need to be taking something we already know and applying to the new material. By doing this your brain understands the new material and retains it better.

Side-note:
read the material through all the way. Then reread this time taking notes. It's hard to analyze something until you have looked at it as a whole.

Football & CTE - Readings/Video Analysis

Readings:

1. This is your brain on football
2. This is Ted Johnson's brain
3. Does football have a future
4. The woman who would save football
5. This is you brain on football (video)

Academic disciplines in these readings:

1. Biology
2. Chemistry
3. Mass communication
4. Criminal Justice
5. Business
6. English
7. Psychology
8. Ethics

Overall Analysis:

There is a real problem that has been uncovered. I think it is similar to tobacco use. People are hesitant to except the truth even though the evidence is right in front of them. The NFL has grown into a multi billion dollar industry. There is a lot of money involved with the NFL and these studies will significantly change the game. It would make sense that the NFL is reluctant to embrace these new findings. Without the full support of the NFL it is going to be hard for the fans and general public to give there support either. Time will go on and the accumulation of evidence will be hard for them to ignore.

Which makes me think about the question in class, "will you let your kids play football?" My answer is no, if the game remains the same. However I have not had kids yet. If I did have a son right now it would be any where from 8 to 15 years before he would be playing. During that time I believe that the game will have significantly changed. We still don't know how much will change and how fast it will occur. It is really a question to be answered as this new research is fused into the game.

This is Your Brain on Football

At least 5 academic disciplines from this story:

Biology
Chemistry
Mass communication
Criminal Justice
Business
English

Class - Friday 08/24/2012

Today we analyzed Lance Armstrong and doping. By analyzing this topic in our group discussion it was clear that it takes many disciplines to really understand this.

Real life situations need more than narrow mindedness to fully address projects and problems.

It was a very eye opening to take a subject like doping in sports and see how the dynamics of the conversation applied to so many other topics. Everything we face really does need to be approached from a interdisciplinary perspective.

First Blog Post

Sports definition as defined by the class:

A competitive competition where there is a winner/loser and the winner is based on objective measure by human achievement.



Reading that popped out to me:

1. The Power and the Gory. ( page 574). Halberstam.
2. Muhammed Ali Then and Now. ( page 702). Halberstam.
3. Ego. ( page 713). Halberstam.
4. Weird Site for a Fight. ( page 738). Halberstam.