DAVID GLENN has been an attorney in North Carolina since 1994. During his legal career, CONTRACT LAW was one of his greatest areas of practice and expertise, and in recent years he’s included SPORTS LAW as part of the classes he’s taught as an adjunct professor in the Communication Department at UNC Wilmington. David also has covered the Atlantic Coast Conference as an award-winning broadcaster and journalist since 1987, and his journalism career has included breaking some of the biggest news in ACC and North Carolina sports history. In fact, on April 22, 2013, our own “DG” was credited by the Associated Press, CBS, ESPN, NBC and dozens of other major media outlets as the first to report the news of the ACC’s original Grant of Rights, which more than a decade later is one of the foundational elements of the ongoing, dueling lawsuits between Florida State University and the ACC.
MIKE WADDELL is an American professional sports executive who is the founder of Brentwood Partners, LLC, a sports consulting firm, where he is the principal, along with managing director Keith Tribble. Waddell began his career in college athletics as a radio and television broadcaster at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1991 to 1994, the University of Virginia from 1994 to 1997, Appalachian State University from 1997 to 2000, and the United States Military Academy at West Point from 2000 to 2001. Waddell moved to the C-Suite in 2001 and has served in executive positions in the athletics departments at the University of Akron from 2001 to 2006, the University of Cincinnati from 2006 to 2010, as the director of athletics at Towson University from 2010 to 2013., as and the chief athletics external officer at the University of Arkansas from 2013 to 2014, and the University of Illinois from 2014 to 2016.
Waddell has also been a team president in the AAF, WTT and ECHL along with two years as a Vice President with International Speedway Corporation, which is now NASCAR.
