A federal judge in Tennessee granted a preliminary injunction on Friday afternoon that prohibits the NCAA from punishing any athletes or boosters for negotiating name, image and likeness deals during their recruiting process or while they are in the transfer portal.
Blows the doors off NIL inducements.
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Just remember, NIL isn't going to be pay-to-play.
If anyone was dumb enough to believe that one ...
College Sports are officially now a Pay for Play Free for All.
This is going to keep anyone but the richest programs from competing in Football and going to destroy mid-majors in March Madness.
Can't beat em? Then just blatantly tamper with and buy the other teams players.
It's worth noting, this only applies to the schools in Tennessee and Virginia right now.
Could be a massive, albeit temporary, advantage for VT
I don't see how... VT isn't a big spender and now the big spenders can use NIL to lure away the VA talent with big NIL dollars.
It says any 3rd party entity.
I had no idea the NCAA was even trying to restrict that anyway.
From the perspective of someone who doesn't care that much about any of this stuff, I honestly didn't realized we were still working under the assumption that there were any rules.
Well, it hasn't been for the $EC and a few other blue bloods for some time now. Up until NIL, the rules only applied to everyone else.
I think the NCAA finally went after collectives knowing the court system would strike it down so they could go to Congress and be like we had a system, never tried to adapt, it's now illegal and your problem.
NIL has been pay for play from the jump so not sure this changes much until they get official employee status.
Hopefully this expedites NIL coming in house. If they are officially going to get paid for play, would rather the athletic department be doling it out than third parties controlling the purse strings.
A semi related thing I'm interested to see is when certain athletic departments and are deemed for profit.
The P2/P5 schools are clearly for profit.