Trevor Riggsby
Joe Griffin
English 111
November 13, 2008
Prospectus
Description of Project:
For this next project I will be doing a brochure on Xavier basketball to help aid in drawing recruits to commit to Xavier University. I have been interested in Xavier basketball for as long as I can remember. My dad got his graduate degree at Xavier University and became a huge basketball fan while he was there. Since then he has turned me into a Xavier hoops fan by taking me to games when I was younger. Around ten years ago we started to get ticket packs for half of the games and then a couple years after upgraded to full season tickets. Once this happened I began to pay very close attention to everything related to Xavier. It has become almost an obsession where I hardly ever miss going to a game and watching the away games on T.V. I read up on all the future recruits and commitments and spend too much time reading articles online about the basketball team. I love basketball and think that basketball season is one of the greatest times of the year especially around March. People often make fun of how much I like Xavier because I constantly wear Xavier apparel and always like to talk about it. This is why I think I could make an effective brochure to entice recruits to look further into X by using my knowledge about the program and a little research.

Genre:
As said before this project will take the form of a brochure that highlights much of the information not only involving the basketball program but the school itself. I will talk about the team history and the current team. I will discuss how successful the program has been in the past two decades as a basketball team and moving people to the next level whether that may be playing basketball professionally or getting a solid degree from a great academic institution. I will also list some of the many benefits of going to a school like Xavier and all the great features that it contains like a top notch and relatively new basketball facility.
Intended Audience:
The audience that this brochure is intended for is mainly recruits that are considering attending Xavier University but I’m sure could be read by any fan of the school. The brochure is designed with the intent of helping give recruits a little more knowledge on the school and something to think about.
Purpose:
The purpose of my brochure is to influence recruits to come and play at Xavier where they can make the team better. The brochure will do this by presenting facts and history about Xavier University that makes it seem appealing to the targeted prospects. Recruits are committing earlier and earlier now a days with people committing to schools as early as their junior year and schools need every edge they can get to gain the upper hand on recruits. A brochure isn’t going to be the deciding factor obviously but it might make the recruit notice something small that could potentially push them over the edge into committing. This is why I decided to make this brochure for the Xavier basketball program.