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#80 October 20: Contact lookup – 1 hour 45 minutes

I am trying to compose myself after last night, which I apologize for. A lot of people are having similar experiences with everything going on in general, I sympathize with them and firmly believe that we will get through it all one way or another. With that out of the way, I have finished finding contact information on the various national governing bodies for the U.S. Olympic team. Those organizations make it very simple by having e-mail addresses readily available for anyone who wishes to reach out to them. Some just publish a general mailbox like info@briansiguenza.com (that is an example, not a real e-mail address, if you try to send a message there it will come back as undeliverable). However, most will have the address for each staff person, all the way up to the executive director.

The same cannot be said for the major collegiate conferences, which I have moved on to. Information for staff at your Power Five institutions is by and large restricted. I have a pretty good idea of why that is: sports fans are known to be a very vocal bunch, especially when they do not like how things are being run. Case in point, Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren drew the ire of fans when initially announcing that this football season would be placed on hold due to the pandemic (Higgins & Bachman, 2020). The decision has since been rescinded, and Big Ten teams will take the field this coming weekend. It would be extremely difficult for commissioners to communicate with who they need to if their mailbox is flooded with angry messages, so it makes sense that the conference would not make that information public.

Reference

Higgins, L., & Bachman, R. (2020, September 17). The Big Ten is tough. Just ask Kevin Warren. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-ten-footballs-new-leader-rides-out-firestorm-11600344000