Join Ford Family Director of Athletics John Mack ’00 as he discusses the changing landscape of college sports. This timely conversation will cover topics such as the advent of Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) rights, the realignment of conferences, the mental well-being of student-athletes and Princeton’s education through athletics model. 
 

Speaker

John Mack’s career in college athletics began at his alma mater, where he served as assistant director of intercollegiate programming, responsible for coordinating facility use and competition schedules for all Princeton varsity programs as well as event operations for home contests. In 2004, he moved to the Big Ten Conference, where he served as associate director of championships and was heavily involved in the site selection, budget management and event oversight for the conference’s 23 annual championships. From 2006 to 2011, he worked at Northwestern University, where he was senior associate director of athletics for sales and marketing, overseeing the development and implementation of marketing plans for all 19 varsity programs. After graduating from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law with cum laude honors in 2014, Mack spent years as a practicing attorney in Michigan, with a focus on complex commercial litigation and products liability cases. He returned to Princeton in 2021. 

Moderator 

Craig Robinson ’83 is an American college basketball coach, basketball executive, broadcaster and author. Currently executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, Robinson previously served as the vice president of player development and minor league operations for the NBA’s New York Knicks from 2017-2020. Before joining the Knicks organization, Robinson held a similar position with the Milwaukee Bucks. Prior to his transition into administration, Robinson spent eight years as a Division I college head men’s basketball coach — two seasons at Brown and six at Oregon State. Robinson holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an A.B. from Princeton University, where he was a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year. Robinson is the author of the bestselling book “A Game of Character.”

This event is part of the TigerSide Chats lecture series and is open to the public. Register today!