Following a decision by a federal judge in Tennessee that granted a preliminary injunction against the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s enforcement of its rules prohibiting name, image, and likeness compensation for recruits, the organization’s president released a statement Friday saying decisions should be made in meeting rooms, rather than courtrooms.
The changing landscape of student-athlete compensation, or name, image and likeness (NIL) deals, has continued to evolve with the latest development coming from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. There, a federal court granted a preliminary injunction Feb. 23 to the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia, who initiated as parens patriae on behalf of their student-athletes, seeking to enjoin enforcement of the NCAA’s “NIL-recruiting ban.”
