Nothing is certain except for death and taxes... and paying student-athletes

“Nothing is certain except for death and taxes... and paying student-athletes," J.R. Carroll Monday, December 1, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) In 2011, J.R. Carroll became a Certified Contract Advisor with the National Football League Players Association. He is one of two agents in Arkansas currently representing players in the NFL. Carroll is also an adjunct professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville where he teaches in the field of sports law. He will discuss “the inevitable march of universities to provide compensation outside the scope of a traditional scholarship to student-athletes.”