Faculty
Charles Grantham is the Director of the Center for Sports Management and is deeply involved in professional
sports, in both an academic and professional capacity. He has served as a Stillman
School adjunct professor and a visiting clinical assistant professor in New York University’s
School of Professional Studies.
As a union executive with the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) from 1976 to 1995, he transformed the NBPA to a multifaceted organization designed to enhance the League’s image and to protect its players. As a principal negotiator, he helped to establish the League’s four historic Collective Bargaining Agreements and was an architect of the industry’s first revenue-sharing/salary cap business model – a multi-billion-dollar labor contract.
He has been a keynote speaker for numerous organizations and universities, has served as an expert analyst for several media outlets and authored articles featured in The New York Times, SportsBusiness Journal and SI.com.
Grantham has an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and has
completed doctoral course work at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Education.
Len DeLuca teaches in the Stillman School’s Sport Management Program and serves as Associate
Director of the Seton Hall Sports Poll. He also teaches at NYU’s Stern School of Business.
DeLuca teaches Sports Law, Sports Business Analytics and Legal Foundations, and advises
the Sports Management and Analytics Club. DeLuca was honored as the 2023 University-wide
and Stillman School Adjunct Teacher of the Year.
DeLuca comes to Seton Hall after 35 years as a senior programming executive at ESPN, CBS Sports and IMG. During his career, he oversaw programming and media rights for major properties including NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments, MLB, NBA and Grand Slam tennis. He also serves as a consultant and legal expert witness on sports media rights cases and content acquisitions including in re NFL Sunday Ticket.
DeLuca earned his B.A. magna cum laude in political science and economics from Boston
College, and his J.D. from Boston College Law School.
Larry McCarthy, Ph.D., teaches in the Stillman School’s Sport Management Program. His research focuses
on sport marketing and has appeared in the Journal of Sport Management, Sport Marketing Quarterly and the European Journal of Sport Management. He co-authored with colleagues William Sutton and Richard Irwin the text Sport Promotion and Sales Management.
McCarthy has wide-ranging international sport business experience having served as President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). He became the 40th President of the GAA in 2021 and was the first person, in the 136 year history of the GAA, to be elected to this prestigious position from outside of Ireland. He has extensive Olympic Games Organizing Committee experience, having worked as an Olympic Envoy with The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG). He is a founding member of the Sport Marketing Association.
He received a B.Ed. from the University of Limerick, an M.A. from New York University and a Ph.D. in sport management from The Ohio State University. He was inducted into the University of Limerick Sport Hall of Fame in 2024. He is Chairman of the Seton Hall University Athletic Council and is a former director of the Institute of International Business in the Stillman School.
Mike Smith, Ed.D., Adjunct Professor of Sport Management
Mike Smith is an executive coach, board director and former senior executive with more than 25 years of experience in the sports and entertainment industry. He teaches sports economics and finance in the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University, bringing industry experience in strategy, finance, talent and organizational leadership into the classroom.
Smith spent 16 seasons at the National Football League, including as Chief Human
Resources Officer, working closely with the Commissioner, club owners and senior
executives. He previously held senior financial and operating roles at NBC and Deloitte.
Smith currently serves on the board of IMG Academy and is the founder of Huddle Advisory,
where he coaches and advises CEOs and other senior executives. He is also cohost of
the sports business podcast Out of Our League.
Smith's professional and academic interests include sports economics and finance,
leadership, organizational effectiveness, talent strategy and the evolving business
models of professional and collegiate sports. He earned a doctorate in leadership
and learning from Vanderbilt University, an MBA from Villanova University and a bachelor's
degree in business administration from La Salle University. His doctoral research
focused on culturally relevant leadership in African American behavioral healthcare.
Associate Professor & Methodologist SHSP, Dan Ladik Ph.D.
Professor Dan Ladik (known as Dr. Dan-o to his students), is the Methodologist for the Seton Hall Sports Poll and an Associate Professor of Marketing in the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University. His main teaching and research interests include marketing strategy, personal selling and sales management, servant leadership and web 2.0/social media.
Sports are a passion for Dr. Dan-o and he served on the Social Media Advisory Board for the 2014 NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee. Prior to Seton Hall University, Professor Ladik taught for seven years in the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University in Boston.
Professor Ladik earned his Ph.D. in marketing at the University of South Florida in Tampa and holds BS (economics), MA (international marketing) and MBA degrees from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.