The NCAA has told its enforcement staff to halt investigations into booster-backed collectives or other third parties making NIL deals with Division I athletes.
Tim Legler weighs in on the state of NIL and argues that signing contracts could help improve athlete loyalty and minimize transfer portal uncertainty.
The move comes a week after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia. The antitrust suit challenges NCAA rules against recruiting inducements, saying they inhibit athletes' ability to cash in on their celebrity and fame."There will be no penalty for conduct that occurs consistent with the injunction while the injunction is in place," Baker wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
Even then, a school was at risk of being punished if a collective broke those rules. That's what happened at Tennessee, which drewThe NCAA altered its enforcement agenda a week after Tennessee and Virginia essentially celebrated a victory in their public fight against the sanctioning body. Baker and the NCAA have so far sought unsuccessfully a limited antitrust exemption from Congress to put rules in place that they say will preserve the amateurism model of college athletics. That model isWhile Baker has spent much of his first year on the job leading the NCAA in Washington, meeting with lawmakers, he has stressed to membership that it needs to come up with its own solutions.
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