Title IX: A Bump on the Road to Pay-for-Play

By Barbara Osborne, J.D., Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   It seems that almost every day there is another student-athlete, journalist, or academic scholar lamenting the “abuse” of college athletes who are limited by NCAA rules to “only” tuition, room, board, books and fees in exchange for the opportunity to play college athletics. The solution most often offered currently is to change the NCAA rules to expand the value of a full athletics scholars