I have reached out to each person on the list of subjects provided to me for a promotional interview. There are four altogether, so it was a quick e-mail to see what availability they had in the next week for a phone conversation about their experience in the Tiffin Sport Management program. With that step out of the way, I could focus on going through e-mail contacts in the five North American major leagues. There are at least thirty teams in each of the so-called “Big Four”–MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL–so that’s 120 contacts right there, then Major League Soccer has twenty-six franchises, with more on the way (Groel, 2019). Now we’re pushing 150 names and that isn’t counting minor leagues or the WNBA or National Women’s Soccer League.
Bottom line is that there are a lot of e-mails I have to review, which means the process is going to take a bit of time. It will also take some investigative work to find a proper e-mail. Some of the team websites have that information readily available, while others presumably do not want some random fan to write them nasty messages about the team’s in-game performance. In those instances, e-mail search services come in quite handy. Now I would be kidding myself if I thought we would be able to have every e-mail address correct using this method, but it is a good starting point for what we want to do. With that, I will be spending time this weekend trying to find elusive sports executive contact information.
Reference
Groel, C. (2019, July 20). Do major North American sports leagues have too many teams? Retrieved from https://medium.com/top-level-sports/do-major-north-american-sports-leagues-have-too-many-teams-3af35ffa11d0