https://www.ohiouniversityjobs.com/postings/38427

I didn't know they still use "salary commensurate . . ." .

I jut took a Continuing Education class on hiring after the pandemic.

One of the things we were told was that any "ad" should have some type of salary range.

That eliminates wasting the applicant's and employer's time.

As he said, if you don't provide some indication of salary, its going to
be the first question an applicant asks anyway.

It has a job classification in the ad that you then look up. It’s a slotted administrative position.

Ah thanks, didn't scroll down enough.

I’ll also add that it’ll be $44k. Those ranges mean nothing. They’ll get you at the lowest 10 times out of 10.

**I’ll also add if I see the word “content” be referenced one more time after hearing it non stop for over a year and no one really understanding what that means there… I may lose my mind.***

110%. The sad thing is someone fresh out of college or this being their first full time stop won’t know this/everything they’ll deal with. It’ll slippery slope from day one. When I left athletics video full time I was kind of looking around and most most most people are done with what I was doing by 30 because they want time with family, to have fun, kids, etc… If they’re not out by 30, they definitely are by 40.

“OHIO Athletics is a dynamic team of student-athletes, coaches and administrators with a vision to demonstrate unprecedented excellence in athletics, academics and student-athlete development. Our championship culture provides a foundation for our students to grow as a person, student and athlete. “

(Clasps hands together)

“Synergy.”

Glad we are looking to hire this position well into football and be lucky if they are on-board and on-boarded before the end of the year.

To answer OhioAlum's response, I think you're correct unless they find someone local. If the position is open for applications until mid-October, you find someone, give them a few weeks to get in to town, and then start you're probably looking at least at December if I had to guess... Late November maybe. The tricky thing is though... You're counting on someone coming in that already knows what they're doing. If they aren't great at shooting or editing, you can't even get something that looks as basic as things did on those old lower boards. Not great at motion graphics? That's a curve that if you're throwing a million shooting and editing projects at this person to that they won't get to sit down and learn (the girl that was doing it when I was there, other than the board operation that was her entire thing.. No shooting, no editing (except board specific things) for 99% of the year). Those boards have a bit of a learning curve to them (amplified a bit when you have to make videos for two different dimensions of boards if not more now with the IMG boards). I messed with them a SMIDGE for the HS bball tourney and when M/WBB needed stuff up occasionally and it still confused me (I never understood Peden's at all). It'll be interesting to see how this goes, AND this is all under the premise that they get someone in after the initial posting and don't have to relist it a few times.

As for OUCats, you'd honestly be surprised... A LOT of us get out of the business in general. Myself, my wife got into vet school which forced a move, and I took a position in live events at the university we're at. More normal schedule, better work environment, and a nice pay bump. A lot of the really really talented people in the industry are moving to agencies and are working directly with athletes. Honest to God, the people working in pro sports aren't much older than us who were in college athletics, and the turnover there is still high in places. I think as the creatives get older, the values change. Is the "grind" worth not seeing family and friends (in my almost 4 years at Ohio the only time I saw a childhood friend was at my wedding for 2 days and my coworkers were NOT my friends... My family I saw for a handful of days one summer, and they saw me in Frisco as it was only a few hours from Arkansas... No holidays or birthdays since the grind dictated I was back on it the next day or the same day like when we spent Thanksgiving at UB for FB. Is the coolness of working in sports worth not making a living? I'll be honest with you, bigger place doesn't always mean more money. Where I am now, the position I'd have had here doing the same thing at Ohio only pays about $3,000 more (still sub $40k). They bank on you wanting to work in sports means you'll take less pay because who doesn't want to work in sports. Working in sports is cool when you're single with no kids, cool with living in the bottom of the barrel places where you live, and not needing free time because you don't have friends somewhere and don't want to get out and do stuff. Criminally overworked and underpaid, and at times your work isn't even appreciated (talking to you guys on here that didn't like when the Russ recaps went away after games and I started making highlights instead haha).

I’ll say this. I’m one of the lucky ones. My mom had the forethought when I was born to start a college fund for me and I was lucky enough to catch a few scholarships as well. I wound up getting out of college unscathed (even though I have a degree in broadcast journalism but wound up hating being on camera). For what I did, in no way was a degree useful. When I was in high school I learned how to shoot and edit. I got to college and learned the live side. So much of what I did in college was just resume building instead of actually learning because I already knew it. I will say that I thought a degree was worth more than what I made at Walmart working Asset Protection though. That was a bit of a rude awakening even though that seems to be a sports exclusive issue.

As far as working in sports I know I made it sound pretty negative, but it had its pros. I loved 99% of the SAs I worked with and getting to interact with them made my day a lot of days, and being able to break the cycle where we weren’t helping them promote themselves… Seeing the joy they got in posting a practice photo (especially the walk ons that didn’t typically get any love) was awesome. My hands down favorite team to work with was MBB. I can’t speak highly enough of that staff at the way they cared for not only their players, but support staff as well. As someone who shot for the SB team that won the MAC tourney a few years back, got all their streams going, etc. I was a little bummed I didn’t even get a T-Shirt as a keep sake. When MBB won this past year, I honestly got a little choked up when they said my name to get one of the championship medals. I had no idea Jeff had put my name down to be recognized as part of the team at it honestly meant a lot as for a really long time I felt more like a resource as opposed to a team member. Never a day went by that I didn’t pass them in the hallway and they say hi and check in on me. I had a bit of a rough time at bubble life in Indy and them checking in on me was very appreciated. In different ways, I could say similar things about the other coaches I worked with. Ali with FH is one of the most hilarious and understanding people I’ve ever met, Aaron with soccer is a great person to sit down and just talk with about anything, when you can figure out when Bob is joking vs being serious he’s a great person, Coach Greenlee is a great person to talk to about the behind the scenes things since he’s been here long enough to see it all, and the list kind of goes on.

If I’d have had the resources and bodies to help every single team and coach the way they should’ve been I would have. The issue is even with this amazing J-School, those students don’t want to shoot and edit the way we need to a lot of times. They want to be on camera and we don’t need that necessarily. It’s also next to impossible to find the students that want to shoot and edit because we don’t have an in with them or the university. When students come to tour, they’re told to go to WOUB/Gridiron/Hardwood.

That lack of people is where the job was just draining. I had cameras. I had computers. I was willing to teach (stayed late a many a night to go over footage with students), but just not having the help to relieve some of that pressure is what burned me out.

They cut out free meals haha. That had to go with budget cuts. If I remember right we were still able to get something in the FB press box (think it ended for everyone else), but those meals were how we “paid” our E3 workers.

A wise man once told me that when you work in sports you don’t want to watch sports. He was very correct. I probably didn’t watch but 1-2 NFL games a year, maybe the NBA finals, and that was it.

I’m able to enjoy them again now.

It was awesome getting to do what I did. Really enjoyed the experience. I know my story isn’t unique to just Ohio, but I have to take a second and really thank the bosses over the US that look out for their staff. I went up to OSU to kind of see how they ran things and just hearing their head guy talk I was amazed that half the stuff he did there was accepted. I took a lot of what he said they did, brought it back to Athens for discussion and was basically laughed at. Some places get it and they keep their staff for many many moons, some places don’t and have to fill the same position over and over every year or two.

It’s probably going to:
-Parking Services (to pay the fines assessed on university owned vehicles such as equipment trucks and the Basketball Arena illegally parked on the Convo Parking Lot);
- To Campus Rec (for use of Pedan, the football offices, the Wren, the soccer/field hockey field, the track, etc);
-And to Res Life, for rental of the cavernous common room in the heart of the Convocation Center dorm

Half joking (but only half)

You'd honestly be surprised how small the athletics budget actually is. We had a meeting pre COVID where they showed other's budgets and OH MY GOD. The discrepancy between the upper half and us was nuts.