Working: Week 2 Blog 1

Today I had my mid-term presentation which I felt went pretty well. I was very pleased that my classmates were attentive and seemed genuinely interested in my project. This week is the first real week of working. So far this week I have written four articles about different recruiting classes for my top twenty-five list. The articles are fairly short, but they provide a brief introduction and then a look at each of the recruits. I think the articles are a nice length because they are long enough to have substance and value, but not long to the point where people become very board. They are quick reads that provide readers with the necessary information. Along with the articles I have also prepared questions that I will ask a college coach that we interview. So far we are looking at interviewing the Chattanooga assistant coach, Farleigh Dickinson head coach, Coach Johnson, and at least one athlete. The questions that I have designed are more towards a college coach because I ask about campus visits, signings and things like that. Ben is designing questions to ask Coach Johnson. I am hoping to conduct an interview within the next week and write an article about it as soon as possible. By next week the website should be going very strong. Just in case you want to check out the website and read a little here is the link to the site.

http://collegehoopsrecruiting.weebly.com/

Working on presentation and starting project: Week 1 Blog 3

This week I started up on the basics of my project. I used a calendar to plan out how I would use my class time and homework time for the rest of the term. With the amount of writing, videos, readings and interviews my term is going to be busy. So far I have designed a basic website for the project. The site will begin to fill up as more and more articles and videos are posted. The website contains pages for the different programs, the recruiting process, players and videos. The home page will feature our most recent work and have links attached to them. As of now we are still trying to figure out our interview subjects. Once we have them we can star creating questions and  carrying out the interviews. After we have the interviews we can write more articles about the recruiting process. I have posted one article so far and it was about the Villanova Wildcats who are 25th on the top 25 recruiting class list. I hope to get more of these articles done this upcoming week. This weekend I have been working on my midterm presentation. I am doing it in the form of a power point with visual aid and a video. I hope that I can clearly present what my project is about and what I hope to get out of it. This is shaping up to be a fun final project.      

Beginning the Project : Week 1 Blog 2

Today in class we began the project. Although our project are still waiting to be approved I started to plan out my work for the week. I spent my class time trying to design and create an effective website. I am using Weebly which is a website creating site, but I am pretty unfamiliar with it and still earning how to use it. The website is going to be the final product of our work so it is essential that I take necessary time to design it. Some things that I put on the calendar to get done this week include finish designing the website, set up interviews and maybe post an article or two. As we begin writing we will figure out what the manageable amount of articles/videos per week would be. We hope to start interviewing coaches and athletes as soon as possible. I think that this project will keep us very busy for the remainder of the term. If we try to accomplish everything we want to it will take a lot of time, but it will be worth it in the end.    

Introduction: Week 1 Blog 1

For my senior project I hope to explore the process of recruiting college basketball players. Basketball has been a big part of my life since a young age whether it be playing or watching. I have discovered that I want to become a sports broadcaster and ideally focus on basketball at the college or professional level. I think this project could be very beneficial to me because it would give me an understanding of what the recruiting process is like and I would enjoy my time doing it. This is an area of college basketball that I am not very familiar with so this project will be a great learning experience. To achieve my goal of being a sports broadcaster I have to be an expert on basketball and pretty much know every little thing. I hope to partner up with my friend Ben Gainsboro who is an even more passionate fan of the sport than me. Ben aspires to become a sports journalist focusing on basketball so this project could be very useful for him as well. I know that we will work well together because we are good friends and we actually wrote together for a blog in the past. I hope that this project will be approved because I am really looking forward to diving into this project and making the most out of this term.