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Dean Emeritus Roberts Comments on NCAA Case for National Public Radio
03/13/2015
Dean Emeritus Gary Roberts was interviewed for a story that aired on National Public Radio regarding whether the NCAA is violating federal law with its prohibition of compensating student athletes. The story surrounds the lawsuit O’Bannon v. NCAA, and it aired on the program “Morning Edition” on March 13.
The story notes Roberts, a nationally recognized expert in sports law, joined a brief supporting the NCAA’s appeal. In the story, he sums up the college’s argument against paying athletes this way: “We want to produce amateur athletics, not professional athletics. And the only way we can do that is to set restrictions on what colleges can give to their student athletes.”
Roberts is dean emeritus and the Gerald L. Bepko Professor of Law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He also is of counsel at the Indianapolis law firm Bose McKinney & Evans.
