Relfection

Since the counter arguement and perspective essay I don't really think much has changed.  I think once I did the counter arguement I was ready to change my question all together then I was kind of talked off the ledge by my teacher.  It was really hard for me to take another perspective on my topic and not adopt that view.  I am a passionate guy so by taking the time to write about something it makes me fully engulfed in that view.  It really helped me to see a different view but just assured me of my topic and the question I wanted to research. 

The article I got from the Journal of Sort Management written by Semoon, Chang, and Shelia Canode talked about the economic impact major college football has on the program.  If a smaller school like Alabama State goes to play the powerhouse Alabama they have the potential to make $450,000 just for showing up.  They don't even have to win the game.  The kind of money that college football brings to a school has such a huge impact on all of the other sports as well.  The football program itself can support some of the other less popular sports.  That in itself is a ton of pressure for a school to win.  I used this in my essay to explain why winner is important not just to the football program.  All of that pressure falls on the coaching staff and the athletic department.  The major key term I got from this was economic presssure.

I will be writing about a freewrite we did in class on 01.09.13 which also happens to be my birthday.  In this write I finally locked down the question that I was going ot work off of for my final paper.  My question is How the stress of coaching affects the spouse of the coach.  I also wrote about what perspective I would write from.  Would I write from the coaches perspective, the spouse, or kids.  I started off by saying that coaches need to find a work-life balance from the rigorous world of coaching and still maintaining a family.  I talked about how I am going to interview spouses that I know from my network of coaches that I know.  Some key terms that I came up with were:  Commitment, family, balance, pressure, maintaining, and stress. 

The next freewrite I will be talking about is the one on 01.11.13 called "binary things in my life".  Something going on in my life right now is that I am attending Bellevue College.  One thing that I get a lot of is homework.  Should I do homework during the day with my time in between classes or should I take that time to rest and do the work at home?  I think in the end the right decision was to take advantage of my time in between classes and get all the homework done that I can.  That is my normal Monday through Friday.

The last freewrite I am going to talk about was done on 01.16.13.  This was right after we turned in our first stasis theory.  I talked about how repetitive it seemed and vague.  I said the questions seemed short and very general.  The one interesting thing that came from all of it is thinking about all of the different parties involved.  When you think about coaching you don't really think about all of the families involed.  The family that is ignored the most is the coaches family.