WHEN
Thursday, September 26, 2024 from 4:00 - 6:00 PM EST
WHERE
Seton Hall University School of Law, One Newark Center (1109 Raymond Blvd.), Newark,
NJ 07102 in the 5th Floor Faculty Library for in-person attendance and on Microsoft
Teams for virtual attendees Registration required.
FOOD
DESCRIPTION
Come join us on Thursday, September 26, 2024 for a “no holds-barred,” conversation and networking opportunity for Seton Hall students and friends, especially those in our Gaming, Hospitality, Entertainment & Sports Law (GHAmES) concentration and Entertainment & Sports Law Society (ESLS) and anybody who is a sports fan and wants to better understand what’s going on in college sports.
On Friday night, September 27, 2024, just down the road from Seton Hall Law School, the University of Washington’s Football Team having journeyed some 2800 miles from Seattle, Washington, to New Jersey, will play the Rutgers University’s Scarlet Knights, in the first in-conference game in collegiate history that has involved cross country travel. Worth noting that 155 years ago, New Jersey hosted the first college football game between Princeton and Rutgers with just 22 miles separating them, and now the first game in this brave new world stretching from Coast to Coast.
This seems the appropriate occasion for Seton Hall University Law School and the Seton Hall University’s Provost’s Academy for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sports to being together a freewheeling panel of the leading experts in collegiate sports law and business to discuss the future and the sustainability of College Sports, now with issues such as: revenue sharing for the athletes; increased attention both in litigation and before administrative agencies; huge realignment of conferences that include two that cover all four domestic time zones; expanded playoffs in the major sports; the possible splintering of the NCAA; and always more money.
WHO IS SPEAKING AND WHY SHOULD I ATTEND
We’ve assembled the best panel of experts anywhere. People with experience as major college athletic directors and coaches, one of the leading lawyers representing both athletic directors and coaches, the general counsel and chief operating officer of the group that advocates for Division I athletic directors- LEAD1, labor leaders, and media insiders.
Craig Esherick, J.D., Professor of Sport Management, George Mason University, Former Head Men’s Basketball Coach Georgetown University.
Charles Grantham, MBA, Director of the Center for Sports Management Seton Hall University, Stillman School of Business, Former Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA).
Bart Lambergman, J.D., Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of LEAD1.
Heather Lyke, J.D., Recent VP & Director of Athletics, University of Pittsburgh, Previously Director of Athletics at Eastern Michigan.
Ralph D. Russo, Associated Press, National College Football Writer.
Bennett Speyer, J.D., Partner and Chair of the Hospitality, Leisure Services and Sports Practice at Shumaker, Loop, & Kendrick, representing leading athletic directors and coaches.
Moderator: Professor Robert Boland, Assistant Professor of Law for Gaming, Hospitality, Entertainment and Sports Law at Seton Hall Law School who also spent from 2017-2022, helping lead the recovery from one of the greatest college athletic scandals in history, as Athletics Integrity Officer at Penn State.
If you have any questions regarding registration, please contact Brett Canaval at 973-642-8382 or [email protected].
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