January 2012 Issue
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In December, CoSIDA was in attendance/participated in the following events:
• Dec. 6: National Football Foundation Gala, New York (
Executive Director John Humenik)
• Dec. 8: ESPN College Football Awards Show, Orlando (
John Humenik)
• Dec. 15: President Tom DiCamillo and
Director of Internal Operations Will Roleson participated on a conference call conducted by the Rural Community College Alliance. Call included CoSIDA, AD’s, coaches and other athletics department reps from two-year institutions.
• Dec. 15: CoSIDA/North American Society for Sports Management (NASSM) meeting, Hartford, Conn. (
John Humenik and
3rd VP Eric McDowell [Union-N.Y.])
For January, CoSIDA is scheduled to be represented at the following events/meetings:
• January 5-9: BCS National Championship Game meetings/events (
John Humenik,
Charles Bloom [SEC], Chair of University Division Management Advisory Committee,
John Paquette [Big East Conference], CoSIDA Board)
• Jan 6-7: FCS Summit, Frisco, Texas (
Scottie Rodgers [Ivy League], Chair of CoSIDA’s FCS Management Advisory Committee)
• Jan 8: American Football Coaches Convention, San Antonio (
Director of External Affairs Barb Kowal)
• Jan 10-13: NCAA Convention, Indianapolis (
Tom DiCamillo,
2nd VP Joe Hornstein [UCF],
Eric McDowell,
John Humenik,
Barb Kowal,
Will Roleson)
• Jan. 28-30: NACDA Mid-Year Affiliates Meeting, Marco Island, FL (
John Humenik)
NACDA
• A “transition team” is being put into place by CoSIDA’s leadership to start to deal with various management and organizational matters associated with the joint June 2013 CoSIDA/NACDA convention in Orlando. At this time our organizational team includes
Joe Hornstein (Central Florida- CoSIDA 1st VP),
Shelley Poe (Ohio State- CoSIDA 2nd VP),
Eric McDowell (Union College- N.Y., CoSIDA 3rd VP),
Nick Joos (Baylor- CoSIDA Past President),
Julie Work (NACDA Associate Director),
Kevin Keys (Liberty), and CoSIDA staff members
Barb Kowal, Will Roleson and John Humenik.
NCAA
• In a December 13th conference call with the Presidents/Chairs of CoSIDA’s divisional leadership groups,
Mark Bedics of NCAA Championships/Alliances discussed a plan to put together an advisory group, similar to what already exists with CoSIDA reps and the NCAA Statistics department, so that NCAA Championships/Alliances can use it to discuss appropriate matters and concerns in a timely and productive manner. Participating on that call from CoSIDA were
Blake Timm (Chair of the College Division Management Advisory Committee),
Charles Bloom (Chair of the University Division Management Advisory Committee),
Greg Goings (President of DII-SIDA),
Larry Happel (President of DIII-SIDA),
Tom Eiser (Chair of DI AAA MAC),
Scottie Rodgers (Chair of FCS MAC),
Justin Doherty (Chair of FBS MAC),
John Humenik,
Barb Kowal and
Will Roleson.
The group discussed this concept and each divisional leadership President/Chair is selecting a divisional representatives to serve on this advisory board. Humenik, Kowal and Roleson, along with other CoSIDA reps, will meet with Bedics,
NCAA Interim Executive Vice President of Championships and Alliances Greg Shaheen and other NCAA staff for meetings in Indianapolis during the January NCAA Convention regarding this concept.
• Executive Director John Humenik has worked with
NCAA Director of Media and Public Relations Erik Christianson to finalize details for CoSIDA’s leadership group visit to the NCAA Convention in Indianapolis in mid-January.
President Tom Di Camillo (PacWest Conference), 1st VP Joe Hornstein (UCF), 3rd VP Eric McDowell (Union-N.Y.), Barb Kowal, Will Roleson and Humenik will compose the CoSIDA leadership contingent. They will be meeting with various divisional leadership groups from the NCAA, AD and commissioners groups, NCAA Championships/Alliances and NCAA Communications.
North America Society of Sports Management (NASSM)
• Eric McDowell (Union, N.Y.), CoSIDA's 3rd VP, and CoSIDA Executive Director John Humenik held a December 15th meeting with Dr. Janet Fink, President of the North America Society for Sports Management (NASSM) in Hartford, Conn., with the meeting focusing on developing a partnership between CoSIDA and NASSM. There are 327 sport management programs in the United States and Canada. They discussed each of their respective organizations, their memberships and conventions and strategic objectives to try and determine ways that to assist each other.
CoSIDA emphasized a desire to help with class and program presentations that are appropriate for athletics communications today and perhaps extend to SIDs opportunities to serve as teachers/guest lecturers/presenters at events. It was emphasized that CoSIDA’s leadership and campus sports communications directors want to ensure that deans and professors at these schools are aware and knowledgeable of all that is taking place in collegiate sports communications so that they are in fact preparing students for “today’s collegiate athletics world.”
Humenik and McDowell also talked about CoSIDA coming to the NASSM convention for presentations/meetings and for NASSM reps doing the same for our convention. Dr. Fink indicated that she will push to have a representative from CoSIDA become a permanent member on NASSM’s “Sports Industry Committee.” Humenik and McDowell agreed to try and set up another face-to-face meeting in Indianapolis at the January NCAA Convention with Dr. Fink and other NASSM reps.
Two-Year Institutions
• On Dec. 15 CoSIDA President Tom DiCamillo and Director of Internal Operations Will Roleson represented CoSIDA on a conference call, conducted by the Rural Community College Alliance, that dealt with athletics at that level. The conference call included ADs and coaches and provided DiCamillo an opportunity to discuss what is taking place within CoSIDA, how it could be helpful to the communications efforts of two-year institutions and the recent expansion of the CoSIDA Academic All-America program.
Division III
• Larry Happel (Central College), President of DIII-SIDA, conducted a DIII-SIDA Board of Directors conference call on Dec. 15. The group heard a report from 3rd VP Eric McDowell (Union, N.Y.) on DIII specific meetings that set up during the January NCAA Convention in Indianapolis, on a grant-based program to assist Division SIDs with gaining graduate assistant help and the exposure DIII is gaining through the expanded DIII Capital One Academic All-America® program. Happel and the Board also discussed the recent decision to develop a CoSIDA/NCAA Championships/Alliances Advisory Board and the role that the DIII SIDA Board should plan in that regard. The Board appointed Mark Adkins (Norwich), Kennan Timm (Wisconsin- Oshkosh) and Ann King (Sage Colleges) to be DIII’s appointees to this new NCAA Advisory Committee.
The group also discussed conducting a new/updated survey specifically for DIII SID operations. This was last done by Blake Timm (Pacific- Ore.) in 2005. Happel and Ira Thor (New Jersey City University) agreed to coordinate the survey process and hope to complete it prior to the start of the spring sports season. Finally, the group discussed the need to produce a “best practices” document for DIII that could be provided to the membership, DIII ADs and perhaps presented as part of a panel at the CoSIDA Convention in St. Louis.
Division II
• Executive Director John Humenik and CoSIDA President Tom DiCamillo will make a presentation on Jan. 13, 2012 at the annual NCAA Convention in Indianapolis to the NCAA DII membership in attendance. The presentation will be on CoSIDA’s/DII-SIDA’s growing visibility and resource role within the intercollegiate community. The NCAA DII Management Council specifically requested that CoSIDA/DII-SIDA do a presentation on the positive and pro-active strategic transformation taking place within CoSIDA and the key resource role that DII-SIDA has played with the NCAA on various DII projects during the past 2-3 years, specifically regarding its assistance with the DII branding campaign and the DII Model Strategic Communications document.
Division I
• Scottie Rodgers (Ivy League), Chair of CoSIDA’s Football Championship Subdivision Management Advisory Committee, will represent that leadership group at the FCS Summit held in Frisco, Texas on January 6-7 around the FCS Football Championship Game.
• John Humenik, Charles Bloom (SEC) - Chair of the University Division Management Advisory Committee - and CoSIDA Board member John Paquette (Big East Conference) will represent CoSIDA’s Division I leadership at meetings held in conjunction with the BCS National Championship Game in New Orleans.
• On December 20, John Humenik and Director of External Affairs Barb Kowal provided the December version of “Communications Watch for Today’s AD” to Dutch Baughman, Executive Director of D1A AD Association. This monthly newsletter goes to all members of the D1A Athletics Directors Association directly from Baughman.
• Access the Academic All-America master schedule for nomination deadlines/team announcements, the AAA Committee list of chairs, vice-chairs and district representatives and the district nominating/voting maps for all four divisions.
• Check CoSIDA.com for the lists of Academic All-District and Academic All-America® men's/ women's soccer teams, football teams and volleyball teams.
NOTE: Deadlines for nominations and voting and updating First Team Academic All-District honorees' bio information (they advance to the national AAA ballot) will be strictly adhered to. There will be no extensions and no exceptions if the deadlines are missed. Please plan appropriately to make sure your information in place to meet the respective deadlines and that the people at your school who will be nominating student-athletes are paid members of CoSIDA for the 2011-12 year.
If you have questions regarding the nomination criteria for the AAA program, or other questions relating to the awards program, please click HERE and closely review the information page and FAQ document on the CoSIDA website which we believe will address your question.
• The Board and Academic All-America® Committee leadership remind CoSIDA members that CoSIDA's "Academic All-America®"mark is federally registered. As such, CoSIDA members must help the Board and AAA Committee monitor the wrongful use of this registered trademark. If you see any other organizations, including coaching associations, using this registered trademark, immediately contact CoSIDA Executive Director John Humenik (jhumenik@bellsouth.net) or Academic All-America Committee member Dick Lipe (rlipe@bentley.edu). We will have our legal counsel, Collegiate Images, follow up with a letter regarding infringement of our federally registered mark and they will be asked to "cease and desist" from future use of that mark.
Many times during the year we find that our own membership is using "Academic All-America®" in releases that they prepare for student-athletes receiving academic achievement awards from other organizations - when in fact those organizations refer to their awards as "All-Academic," "Scholar-Athlete," "Academic All-Star," etc. We remind CoSIDA members to be cognizant of only using "Academic All-America®" in relation to CoSIDA's Capital One partnership program. There are NO exceptions and you should make sure your administrative staff and coaches understand that they do not have the right to take another award that is being presented for combined academic/athletic excellence by coach’s associations or other organizations and change it to “Academic All-America®” instead of its appropriate title given by that awarding organization.
• On Dec. 8th and 9th, CoSIDA President Tom DiCamillo held conference calls with the 2011-12 CoSIDA Committee chairs. Another call on December 20th included CoSIDA Board representatives who have been appointed as liaisons for the Board with each committee.
• Conference call line available for CoSIDA groups: CoSIDA Board members, divisional leaders and committee chairs are reminded that CoSIDA has a conference call line provided by TRZ/Teamline to assist with your group's calls. To reserve the line, please provide your preferred dates and times to Director of Internal Operations Will Roleson at willroleson@cosida.com.
• Special Awards Chair Tam Flarup (Wisconsin) reminds the membership that nominations for CoSIDA’s Special Awards program are open year-round. Please review the various awards HERE and nominate deserving CoSIDA members, media members and CoSIDA advocates for these distinguished honors: http://cosida.com/awards. The deadline for the 2012 awards, which will be presented at the June St. Louis CoSIDA Convention, is Jan. 31, 2012. Questions can be directed to Flarup at tjf@athletics.wisc.edu.
• The Publications Contest information and upcoming deadlines can be found HERE; deadlines vary throughout the year. Questions can be sent to Publications Chair Chad Grubbs (Hardin-Simmons) at cgrubbs@hsutx.edu.
• Nomination forms and details for the CoSIDA Scholarship & Grant Program are available for CoSIDA scholarship/grants to be awarded for the 2012-13 academic year. Carol Hudson, Jr. (Old Dominion) is Chair of the Scholarship Committee and questions can be directed to him at chudson@odu.edu. CoSIDA members are encouraged to nominate worthy candidates for undergraduate scholarship and post-graduate scholarship monies available via the Fred Nuesch-Dave Wohlhueter Undergraduate Scholarships, Langston Rogers Postgraduate Scholarship and Wylie Smith Postgraduate Scholarship. Additionally, any institution in need of boosting its media relations/sports information office and in search of funding for a graduate internship position also is encouraged to apply for the Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant. There are April/May deadlines for these awards.
• The annual 2011-12 Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest is now open. Wade Steinlage (William Penn College), CoSIDA Stabley Writing Contest Chair, has announced the submission criteria, categories and entry form information. Deadline for submissions is February 24, 2012. There are new categories this year. Questions can be directed to Steinlage (steinlagew@wmpenn.edu).
• CoSIDA Board representative Joe Browning (UNC-Wilmington) continues to work with John Humenik to refine a proposal for the possible establishment of a “Communications Department of the Year” awards concept that is modeled along the lines of NACDA’s “Athletic Directors of the Year” program. A call on this issue was conducted on December 20. The concept, which was first discussed at the San Francisco convention in 2010 with Browning named the chair, is to have CoSIDA’s divisional leadership groups determine four regional “Communications Department of the Year” awards for each of six specific divisions (Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Championship Subdivision, NCAA Division I AAA, NCAA DII, NCAA DIII, and NAIA).
Each of those six divisional leadership groups would accept one nomination from each respective conference in those divisions, as determined by those respective conference schools. The conference would choose its nominee based on its determination of which school it believes is doing the best comprehensive job of overall excellence. The divisional boards would then choose “Communications Department of the Year” awards for each of the four regions that are established for that respective division. The divisional boards would take those respective conference nominees and then choose “Communications Department of the Year” awards for each of the four regions that are established for that respective division.
• Executive Director John Humenik has finalized a review for the CoSIDA Board of Directors and divisional leadership regarding a three-year update and progress report on various initiatives in the CoSIDA Strategic Master Plan that the Board adopted in June of 2008. Humenik took at look at each of those established initiatives and provided a update on progress with regard to that initiative after three years and focus points for the remaining two years of the plan.
• During the month of December, 20 CoSIDA-based stories appeared on NACDA’s Daily Review email blast. There were 17 Daily Review emails during the month. Through the Daily Review email, thousands of university and athletics administrators are exposed to professional and organizational news. This outreach primarily came about due to CoSIDA’s decision in December 2008 to become an affiliated partner within the NACDA organizational umbrella.
• Also in December, six CoSIDA-based features/stories were circulated a total of 15 times on the NCAA Daily News Direct email blast.
• In December, 34 articles were posted on CoSIDA.com. The CoSIDA Twitter page had 225 tweets/postings, all of them informative nature with breaking news and timely topics for athletic communication professionals.
• CoSIDA 2nd VP Shelley Poe (Ohio State) is coordinating the overall program for the St. Louis Convention. She is in the process of finalizing the first full draft of the potential program for review by members of the Program Committee and reps from the CoSIDA Board. On December 14, Poe coordinated a convention workshop programming call with Convention Program Committee Chair Dennis O’Donnell (University of Rochester) and the committee to discuss programming matters. Contact Poe at poe.45@osu.edu.
• Blake Timm (Pacific- Oregon), chair of the College Division Management Advisory Committee, and Charles Bloom (Southeastern Conference), chair of the University Division Management Advisory Committee, are coordinating specific “college division” programming concepts (joint NCAA DII and DIII and NAIA) and ”university division” (NCAA Division I based) for the St. Louis Convention. If you have specific programming concepts for those sessions please contact them soon at timmbr@pacificu.edu or cbloom@sec.org.
• Details are finalized with the Renaissance Grand Hotel staff in St. Louis regarding luncheons/dinners at the June 2012 convention. The CoSIDA Kickoff Luncheon is set for Sunday, June 24 and the CoSIDA Hall of Fame Luncheon will be held Monday, June 25. The Capital One Special Awards Gala, featuring the Academic All-America Hall of Fame Induction ceremony, will take place on the evening of Monday, June 25.
• Clay Stoldt, Chair of the Sports Management Program at Wichita State and a former SID at that school, has worked with Barb Kowal and John Humenik as it relates to doing a survey/study with our CoSIDA membership on the growing use of social media in college athletics. Stoldt prepared a survey for our membership and that survey has been circulated twice via email and also is available HERE. That survey has a deadline date of January 13. Thanks to the hundreds of CoSIDA members who have participated in the survey; CoSIDA’s leadership encourages you to take part in this valuable survey and research project if you have not yet done so.
• Joe Moore, a former SID at Central Missouri who now teaches in that school’s Department of Communications, recently completed his dissertation on “Influence in the Collegiate Sports PR Community.” CoSIDA’s Board of Directors and its various leadership groups agreed to work with Moore on this project at the 2010 San Francisco Convention.
The completed project, which included interviews with CoSIDA’s Board, divisional leadership groups and participation by nearly 300 CoSIDA members, was provided by John Humenik to the CoSIDA Board of Directors and the various divisional leadership presidents/chairs on Dec. 14. A review and discussion of the document will be held by the Board at a future time and an executive summary of the report will be produced by Moore/Humenik and provided to the CoSIDA membership in the future. Moore is now planning to survey Directors of Athletics relative to this topic.
• On Dec. 12,
Director of External Affairs Barb Kowal, 2nd VP Shelly Poe (Ohio State) and 3rd VP Eric McDowell (Union-N.Y.) held a conference call with a steering committee of collegiate web and digital media managers, headed by
Dave Smoller Kansas State Director of Internet Services. The group of digital managers is looking to form their own management association under the NACDA umbrella in the next few years. In the interim, they want to work with CoSIDA on continuing education programming for the spring semester (coordinated by McDowell) and on programming opportunities at the St. Louis Convention (coordinated by Poe).
• CoSIDA’s new Stat Crew task force advisory board held a conference call on Dec. 19 to discuss updates and new information on Stat Crew Next Generation software. A letter written by the task force and CBS Sports Interactive/Stat Crew was sent to the CoSIDA membership on Dec. 21 to update members on Stat Crew software. Please refer to that letter
HERE.
The advisory board includes:
Brent Harris (Wabash),
Brett Crossley (10 Foot Wave),
Brian Lucas (Wisconsin),
Damian Salas (Virginia Tech),
Greg Weitekamp (NCAA),
Jeff Williams (NCAA),
J.D. Hamilton (NCAA),
Jeff Ligney (Great Lakes Conference),
Jeremy Michiaels (NCAA),
Louis Gates (10 Foot Wave),
Monica Pellman (Stat Crew),
Kelby Siler (Stat Crew),
Rob Anderson (Creighton),
Rob Corolla (Big 12 Conference),
Scott Goode (Harding),
Steve Flegel (Whitworth),
Chad Moller (Missouri),
Tom McClellan (East Carolina) and
Steve Shutt (Wake Forest).
• CoSIDA President Tom DiCamillo held a conference call with CoSIDA’s Past Presidents on Dec. 20.
• Director of External Affairs Barb Kowal and
Director of Internal Operations Will Roleson worked with
Membership Services Committee members – chaired by
Blake Timm (Pacific-Ore.) on the CoSIDA.com Online Reference and Resource Library. Timm and Kowal have developed the online structure, with Timm building a landing page, Sub-categories are being finalized and once the links to features, how to’s, videos and PDFs are built, the Library will be tested in January. The launch of the Resource Library is scheduled for March.
• Barb Kowal and
John Humenik will be presenting some specifics about the Online Library strategic/crisis management planning resource information to AD leadership groups at the NCAA Convention in Indianapolis in mid-January to gather their input and feedback relative to their use of this online resource.
• Please review the most up-to-date
CoSIDA’s Membership Master Schedule Calendar of Events and Deadlines, which extends from January 1-March 31. We encourage all membership to review this closely so that you are aware of important dates and deadlines.
• T
he following companies have CoSIDA "official provider" recognition for 2011-12:
Capital One - Entitlement rights holder for CoSIDA's Academic All-America® program
SIDEARM Sports - Official provider of CoSIDA's website (including Academic All-America online nomination and selection system, Career Center, Online Directory, awards and online membership systems)
ASAP Sports - CoSIDA's official instant transcripts provider
Expion - CoSIDA's official social media advisor
NewTek - CoSIDA's official continuing education video archive provider
TRZ Sports/Teamline - CoSIDA's official teleconference call provider
Eclaro Sports - CoSIDA's official career development partner
Sports Systems - CoSIDA's official online convention registration provider
Populous - CoSIDA's official convention registration badge printer and provider
XOS Digital/Collegiate Images - CoSIDA's official legal services provider for the Academic All-America® program
· Sixty (60) organizations/firms have committed to support CoSIDA at some fiscal level for the 2011 convention specifically or for the combined convention and 2011-12 academic year. The 2011 sponsorship directory can be accessed HERE. We ask that you be aware of all of CoSIDA's sponsorship partners.