Matt Baker, who is now with the Athletic, reports the following:
"Athletes who are being recruited by NCAA schools will now have the ability to negotiate name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation under the terms of a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit brought by the states of Tennessee and Virginia against the NCAA in 2024.
"If approved by a judge, the NCAA will stop enforcing rules prohibiting NIL from being used as a recruiting inducement. The NCAA also will not adopt any new rules banning NIL in recruiting.
"The changes come after a federal lawsuit was filed in January 2024 by the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia after an NCAA inquiry into potential recruiting/NIL violations surrounding Volunteers quarterback Nico Iamaleava. He was a five-star recruit whose multi-million-dollar recruiting process drew national attention. Florida, New York and the District of Columbia eventually joined in the suit against the NCAA.
"In February 2024, a federal judge sided with the states, granting a preliminary injunction that kept the NCAA from enforcing its rules. The state and association announced in January that they were settling the case before filing the proposed terms Monday."
Athletic Article
Let's go back a year or so, after the courts forced NIL upon collegiate athletics.
After being defeated and forced to comply with NIL, the NCAA could only offer NIL "guidelines" to member institutions: 1. No pay for play and 2. And don't use NIL as a recruiting inducement.
Immediately, my lawyer buddies - including @AllNoles -- predicted those "guidelines" would be contested in court and now that they have been, the NCAA has to back off enforcement.
Our legal buddies were right from a legal perspective. Absolutely.
What the NCAA tried to do with its voluntary group of members was to issue "guidelines" to follow... a last-ditch appeal to college coaches to follow higher angels. The NCAA had to know those guidelines would be ignored by the coaches competing for recruits to save their jobs. And once the NCAA tried to "enforce those guidelines" they were legally doomed.
I think this leads collegiate athletics deeper into the wild west AND closer to either making them employees so the schools can collective bargain compensation, or to a legislative solution, a carve out or an anti-trust exemption for colleges.
What do you think?
"Athletes who are being recruited by NCAA schools will now have the ability to negotiate name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation under the terms of a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit brought by the states of Tennessee and Virginia against the NCAA in 2024.
"If approved by a judge, the NCAA will stop enforcing rules prohibiting NIL from being used as a recruiting inducement. The NCAA also will not adopt any new rules banning NIL in recruiting.
"The changes come after a federal lawsuit was filed in January 2024 by the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia after an NCAA inquiry into potential recruiting/NIL violations surrounding Volunteers quarterback Nico Iamaleava. He was a five-star recruit whose multi-million-dollar recruiting process drew national attention. Florida, New York and the District of Columbia eventually joined in the suit against the NCAA.
"In February 2024, a federal judge sided with the states, granting a preliminary injunction that kept the NCAA from enforcing its rules. The state and association announced in January that they were settling the case before filing the proposed terms Monday."
Athletic Article
Let's go back a year or so, after the courts forced NIL upon collegiate athletics.
After being defeated and forced to comply with NIL, the NCAA could only offer NIL "guidelines" to member institutions: 1. No pay for play and 2. And don't use NIL as a recruiting inducement.
Immediately, my lawyer buddies - including @AllNoles -- predicted those "guidelines" would be contested in court and now that they have been, the NCAA has to back off enforcement.
Our legal buddies were right from a legal perspective. Absolutely.
What the NCAA tried to do with its voluntary group of members was to issue "guidelines" to follow... a last-ditch appeal to college coaches to follow higher angels. The NCAA had to know those guidelines would be ignored by the coaches competing for recruits to save their jobs. And once the NCAA tried to "enforce those guidelines" they were legally doomed.
I think this leads collegiate athletics deeper into the wild west AND closer to either making them employees so the schools can collective bargain compensation, or to a legislative solution, a carve out or an anti-trust exemption for colleges.
What do you think?
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