How Luck and Strategy Shaped My Sports Career!

A sports industry professional reflects on earning an MBA and Master of Sports Administration, then working for three respected agents before realizing deal-making didn't satisfy them as much as watching outcomes unfold. Luck and deliberate strategy shaped their path into sports.
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So for me, it was a little bit of luck and then a little bit of, you know, strategy, let's call it. So when I went to graduate school, I got my MBA and a Master of Sports Administration. And during that process, kind of leading up when I was in college in those years, I got a lot of different internships. So I knew I wanted to work in sports. That was the one thing I knew. At first, I thought I wanted to be an agent. And so I had the pleasure of working with agents. And what's interesting is I'm one of the few people I think that can say in this world that I work for 3 agents, and all 3 were really, really incredible people. They loved their clients, represented them well. They were great people, you know, I would trust them with anything. So I was very fortunate. That's not always the reputation that agents have in sports, and this is across a lot of different sports, big and small. So, but with that experience, even though it was a good one, I didn't particularly kind of— I didn't get as much satisfaction for getting a good deal when you're the layer because it kind of felt like, okay, you're setting up the family, but it didn't get me as excited as what I was seeing happen the other side, which is
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