I just got off the phone with Liston, it was a brief call to initiate a discussion about my goals for the future. The exercise is intended to be face-to-face but with me being in Iowa and him in Florida combined with the fact we are still in a pandemic, that is obviously unfeasible. I did send my thoughts over to him by e-mail for him to review and he asked for time to respond to what I put down. I can certainly appreciate that, it took me some time to envision my career in five to ten years so I want to afford him the same opportunity to put some thought into what he wants to say. Liston expects to be finished here in the next couple of days.
The pandemic is very heavy on my mind in these final days of MBA studies. It is altering playing schedules significantly: the Ravens-Steelers game that was to be played Thanksgiving night and then tomorrow afternoon has been moved once more to Tuesday night, for instance (Hensley, 2020). Then there is a recently-published Washington Post article that suggests that even before COVID-19, sports leagues faced a challenge attracting people younger than twenty-five who are more apt to be connected to smartphones than they are the television (Maese, 2020). So the dynamics are changing and we do not know exactly how everything is going to play out. In the short term, however, the focus has to be on recovery from the pandemic and while those in power hopefully work on a solution, my goal is to get my own affairs in order as far as my skills as a communications professional are concerned.
References
Hensley, J. (2020, November 27). Baltimore Ravens-Pittsburgh Steelers game moved to Tuesday; Ravens-Dallas Cowboys game moved to Dec. 7. Retrieved from https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30401833/sources-baltimore-ravens-pittsburgh-steelers-game-moved-tuesday-due-coronavirus
Maese, R. (2020, November 24). Sports has a Gen Z problem. The pandemic may accelerate it. Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/11/24/gen-z-sports-fans/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2DaQyr3Tpy9krAFVbb82Q8kWWfqbqOz82censzAbspwBN9YuQvLh5hqlA