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Work for Duke basketball and get paid nothing.

Wake has equivalent positions, as do most athletic departments. Working a year in a job like this is almost a prerequisite to breaking in to college sports, unless you did a lot of interning (also probably for no pay) when you were a student. These jobs get tons of applicants--getting a job in sports is tough.

It really is ridiculous when you step back and think about it. Shouldn't be that hard to come up with $23k to pay a couple interns in an industry that is paying mid-seven figure salaries to coaches.
 
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The players don't get paid either.
 
Work experience can be a big deal. Of course I'm assuming working under k also gets you a regular shoe in the nuts. So there is that. Sad.
 
Aren't these positions generally filled by students pursuing post-graduate degrees at the University, as well?
 
WFUWaldo said:
Aren't these positions generally filled by students pursuing post-graduate degrees at the University, as well?
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No. At least not at Wake. We don't have sports management or other similar grad programs. And these are literally full-time, often seven days a week jobs. No time for classes.
 
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This position also gets saddled with the losses if Coach K decides, I mean has to, take a leave from coaching during the season.
 
My brother has worked unpaid internships as a S&C Coach at two separate college football programs. One very successful one and a much smaller one with more responsibility. After that he went to get his Master's in Health and Human Performance.

He is also currently working for an NCAA men's tennis program in an unpaid capacity.

This is extremely common.
 
Yeah, but it shouldn't be. If these jobs are such a great opportunity, they should be open to people who can't afford to take a full-time job for no pay.
 
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Yeah, but it shouldn't be. If these jobs are such a great opportunity, they should be open to people who can't afford to take a full-time job for no pay.
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Why? The employer isn't interested in the employee's opportunity, it is interested in getting the work done at the cheapest cost. Its best case scenario is finding someone who is willing to work for free forever, not someone who they pay and who then leaves. They know the person is leaving anyway at the first opportunity, so why pay them in the meantime if you don't have to? If Duke happens to find a rockstar who they don't want to leave, then they can start bidding to keep him when the other offers start coming in. But given their pipeline, that probably won't be necessary or happen, and they know it.
 
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The employer isn't interested in the employee's opportunity, it is interested in getting the work done at the cheapest cost. Its best case scenario is finding someone who is willing to work for free forever, not someone who they pay and who then leaves.
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#bringbackslavery
 
DeaconCav06 said:
My brother has worked unpaid internships as a S&C Coach at two separate college football programs. One very successful one and a much smaller one with more responsibility. After that he went to get his Master's in Health and Human Performance.

He is also currently working for an NCAA men's tennis program in an unpaid capacity.

This is extremely common.
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So he still mooches off your parents?
 
The first ones were straight out of college and my parents treated it similar to grad school. Now he also works as a Personal Trainer at 3 different gyms.
 
TheReff said:
Everybody in most every industry has these kind of positions. They are called internships and have been used for years to gain valuable work experience in an industry.
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Internships pay money
 
Not the unpaid internships.
 
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Why? The employer isn't interested in the employee's opportunity, it is interested in getting the work done at the cheapest cost. Its best case scenario is finding someone who is willing to work for free forever, not someone who they pay and who then leaves. They know the person is leaving anyway at the first opportunity, so why pay them in the meantime if you don't have to? If Duke happens to find a rockstar who they don't want to leave, then they can start bidding to keep him when the other offers start coming in. But given their pipeline, that probably won't be necessary or happen, and they know it.
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There's a reason we have minimum wage laws....
 
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