GC&SU sports mean more to Muller

There isn’t much Brad Muller doesn’t know about Georgia College & State University athletic programs. Go ahead and try to stomp him.

Brad Muller is originally from Stanford, Conn., and he received his degree in broadcast journalism from the University of South Carolina.

He came to Milledgeville 10 years ago to pursue a career in radio broadcasting as the sports announcer for WKZR, where he became the sports director there for a period of three years. Muller eventually decided that he wanted to pursue a career doing something else, so he left his job for another career opportunity in North Carolina; unfortunately the radio station he was going to work for got bought out at the same time, and it closed his opportunity of being a sports announcer there.

Fortunately enough, a position opened up at GC&SU, Muller applied for it.

“I’ve fallen in love with it and am now entering into my seventh year here at GC&SU as the sports information director.” Muller is the director of sports marketing and information, but basically that entails everything from the production of media guides, web site maintenance, keeping up with statistics, writing press releases, creating promotions, to being in charge of the marketing and sales for the GC&SU athletic program.

Muller’s job consists of diverse tasks throughout the year. In the fall semester he handles cross country, golf and tennis. During the fall semester, he also works on media guides for the up coming sports such as basketball, softball and baseball as well as getting the athletic Web site updated for the coming year.

“Once basketball season starts in November then it starts getting busy because I’ll come in early in the mornings to put together press notes and make copies of statistics and game programs,” Muller said. “I travel with the teams so a lot of the time it means leaving in the afternoon and coming back late at night and that usually happens several times a week, especially on the weekends.”

Muller experiences his busiest time of the year in the Spring.

“When the spring semester gets going you would probably have to drink a lot of coffee to keep up with me, because I get here at eight in the morning and have men’s and women’s basketball games, baseball, softball and tennis. I usually will be doing anything between writing press notes and putting press packets together for three different sports in the morning, while putting together game programs for whatever sports are playing that day. Then I hop on a bus to go travel with one of the teams that might have a game that day. Then I come back at maybe two in the morning and update all that information so that it can be put on the web or included in a press release the next day.”

Although Muller leads a busy life, he likes his job because it is unpredictable.

Muller said the thing he likes most about his job is that, “my job never gets boring because one day I’m at a baseball game the next day I’m at a basketball game and there’s never the same results.”

Muller considers the biggest benefit of his job to be working with the people such as the coaches and athletes

“I’ve probably liked 99.9 percent of them because the daily interaction that I have with them keeps me from feeling like an old man,” Muller said. “In the spring it gets really busy, almost turning into a seven day a week job and so I’m usually having to spend a lot of time on the road so by the end of spring semester I’m tired of coming home at three in morning.”

Muller has a passion for sports which he describes as necessary for this career.

“You obviously have to have a love for sports, but more importantly than that, if you’re going to work in sports and get to the level that you want to be you have to be, willing to make sacrifices,” Muller said. “In order to work in a sports related field you might have to do things like working on New Year’s day or some big holiday tournament so it’s important to know that you’re going to be traveling a lot and might have to miss a lot of the family type things. You also need to be willing to work long hours with weekends included and not expect on getting rich any time soon.”

One of the reasons, GC&SU has gained students is because of its athletic program.

“The biggest benefit of an athletic program is the amount of free publicity it brings to a university,” Muller said.

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