Robert (Robin) E. Ammon Jr, graduated with an EdD in Sport Administration from the University of Northern Colorado. His areas of research include: crowd management, legal liabilities in sport, risk management in sport and athletics, and premises liability. Currently he is an associate professor and Chair of the Kinesiology and Sport Management Division at the University of South Dakota. Dr. Ammon has written extensively with over 25 articles in refereed journals, 17 chapters in sport management books, and five textbooks. He has presented over 85 times at local, regional, national and international conferences on a variety of topics including facility, legal, crowd management and security issues. For the past 12 years Dr. Ammon has served as an expert witness in numerous court cases regarding several of these issues. Before entering the academic arena, he was involved in intercollegiate athletics for 10 years as a coach and administrator. In addition, he has been associated with special events as a practitioner since 1976. This experience has included various Super Bowls, the 2011 Winter Classic, professional and collegiate athletic events, and hundreds of concerts all across North America.
Dr. Richard M. Southall is a Professor in the Department of Sport and Entertainment Management at University of South Carolina. He is also director of the College Sport Research Institute (CSRI) at the University of South Carolina. CSRI sponsors the annual CSRI Conference on College Sport and the Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics.
At the University of South Carolina, Dr. Southall teaches courses in college sport, sport business ethics, event management, and management theory. In addition, as a Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) course director, Southall teaches scuba diving courses from open water to instructor levels, and offers marketing and operations consultancy in the scuba diving industry.
He has disseminated his research, which examines the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) Collegiate Model of Athletics, in more than 100 commentaries, book chapters, and journal articles in such publications as TheChronicle of Higher Education, College Athletics Clips,Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Sports Law Journal, Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, Journal of the Legal Aspects of Sport, Journal of Sport Management, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Sociology of Sport Journal, and Sport Marketing Quarterly. Dr. Southall has given more than 150 national and international presentations. He is co-author of Introduction to Sport Management: Theory and Practice (2nd ed.), and Sport Facility Management: Organizing Events and Mitigating Risks (3rd ed.).
A recognized expert on NCAA “big-time” college-sport, he has been quoted in such news outlets as TheChronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, TheNew York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, ESPN Outside the Lines, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and CNN.
Dr. Southall was a consultant for the plaintiffs in the 2009-2016 O’Bannon v. NCAA litigation. In July 2014 he was invited to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation during a hearing on the safety and well being of college athletes.
Mark S. Nagel, EdD, is a professor in the Department of Sport and Entertainment Management at the University of South Carolina. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain, the University of San Francisco, and St. Mary’s College of California. Nagel is the associate director of the College Sport Research Institute and has previously served as the treasurer of the North American Society for Sport Management and the Sport and Recreation Law Association. In addition to publishing numerous journal articles and book chapters, Nagel has co-authored six textbooks, including two published by FiT Publishing: Developing Successful Sport Sponsorship Plans, 5th edition, and multiple editions of Sport Facility Management: Organizing Events and Mitigating Risks.
Prior to working at South Carolina, Nagel served as a sport management professor at Georgia State University, the University of West Georgia, and San Jose State University. Before pursuing a career in academe, Nagel was a practitioner in athletic coaching and administration, as well as campus recreation. During his years as an assistant coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of San Francisco, he helped lead the team to three NCAA Tournament appearances, including the Sweet 16 in 1996.
