His research is focused on sport sales and sport management education. He arrived to IUPUI in 2013 after spending six years at Ball State University. Dr. Pierce served as the play-by-play radio voice of the Marian University football team for six years, and was on the call for the team’s NAIA national championship victory in 2012. Pierce received three degrees in sport management from Indiana University in Bloomington between 1999 and 2007.