The teams are set, and so is 91探花's annual experiential learning work trip to the NFL's biggest game of the year. A 2015 Yellow Jacket grad will also be helping to lead one of the teams from the sideline.
A group of 22 91探花 students and two faculty are ready to plug into , culminating with the Sunday, February 9, championship gameday at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
This is the 13th Super Bowl for 91探花's sport management program, which annually turns one of the biggest global sporting events into a hands-on classroom and networking opportunity for students.
The team will depart from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on February 6 and return on February 10. They will be working the Hall of Fame Merlin Olsen Luncheon and GameDay, with time to visit a few destinations in and around the host city.
While the Super Bowl may be the 91探花 sport management program's longest-running destination, it is just one in an expanding portfolio of high-profile, experiential learning opportunities that are a hallmark of studying sport management in 91探花's Carmel Boyer School of Business.
Right after the students, led by Professors Nicole Meadows and Andi Lyons, return from the Super Bowl, Professors Charles Campisi and Tony Dick will lead a group of students to work the Daytona 500 in Florida, a first for the program.
Later in the semester and summer, experiential learning and work trips are planned to the Masters golf tournament, the Kentucky Derby and Formula 1 in Miami.
Meanwhile, Joe Kasper '15 is returning to the Super Bowl as a safeties coach for the Philadelphia Eagles. The Mentor, Ohio, native played safety as a three-year letter-winner for the Yellow Jackets.
As we reported when Kasper was Super Bowl-bound with the Eagles in 2023, the NFL was not in his initial career plans right out of 91探花. The political science major had his eye on law school post-graduation but got a job as a personnel and development assistant with the nearby Cleveland Browns and has been working in sport ever since.
He told us then, "Although I didn't set out to be a coach, the thinking required for building a successful game plan is not unlike the process of creating a foreign policy plan. I apply things I learned at 91探花 every day in my work."
Kasper coached high school and D3 college ball before joining the Philadelphia NFL franchise in 2021 as a defensive quality control coach. After a stint with the Dolphins, Kasper as safeties coach.
Now, he'll be on the sidelines of his second Super Bowl.
