Trick My Ride

I'm using a new resource in my Strategic Marketing class: Bloomberg.  Today I showed a video about the super wealthy being able to add a $50K electronics package to their luxury cars.

Many of my kids tell me they want to drive Bugattis and Ferraris--I wonder if they know what it takes to be able to afford those cars...scratch that.  I know they don't know.

Current Events for Strategic Marketing

From: cmgdigital.com

One of the results of switching schools this year is that I get to teach new classes, like Multimedia and Web Page Design.  I'm also teaching Strategic Marketing, which I've taught before...but that was a long time and one curriculum re-write ago.

I have really enjoyed talking about current events in my sports marketing classes, and I would like to continue doing that in Strategic Marketing.  It's easy to find stuff for SEM I: just watch ESPN, CNBC or E!.  For Strategic Marketing, I have to do slightly more digging.

For my first current event in class, we're going to be talking about the tobacco packaging that has been struck down by a federal court here.  I'm sure we can have a good discussion on that!

Here...we...go

From: wildsoundmovies.com

I had planned on blogging about Lance Armstrong, or Neil Armstrong...but, school's about to start!

This is the least prepared I've felt for the start of school year since my first year.  What's wrong with me?  This is my seventh year doing this!  Even my daughter's not nervous about starting the year.

Why do I not feel prepared?  Let me count the ways:

1. I have three preps for the first time ever, and every class is new.
2. I'm at a new school.
3. I'm not teaching in a computer lab for two of my classes.
4. I'm in charge of the biggest DECA chapter in my county, and I've never been good at leading that club.

It's time to pray I can make.  I know I've got the first day's activities down--now it's trying to figure out what to do with the other 89 days this semester!

The Carolina Way?

From: blogs.nd.edu

It's been a stressful two years for UNC athletics, and it doesn't look like things are going to get better anytime soon.  Two years after Marvin Austin's tweets sent the 2010 and 2011 football seasons in disarray, more bad news has come out: the Julius Peppers transcript.

Carolina has already had its hand slapped by the NCAA once, but that was for transgressions that occurred after 2007.  Now it seems that the academic fraud goes back to at least 2001.  Things are so bad even a former governor has been put on the case to investigate the full extent of this mess.

I'm not shocked that athletes pursue easy majors and take easy classes--they have insanely busy schedules in college, and I'm sure many are there for the primary purpose of playing ball.  What boggles my mind is the low GPAs required to play.  I thought only high schools were slack about eligibility standards, but when a school with the academic reputation of UNC allows athletes to play for years with a sub-2.0 GPA, it makes me scratch my head.

The Carolina Way, indeed...

Pay the Man, Shirley

Dear NFL,

You make over $7B a year.  Your refs aren't great, but the replacements are even worse.  Pull the change out of the couch and pay these guys.

Thanks!
A decreasingly interested NFL fan