A Tennessee federal judge recently suspended an NCAA rule that barred third-party marketing deals for recruiting student athletes, marking a significant legal victory for Tennessee and Virginia, who had sued over the rule in January, arguing that an antitrust lawsuit challenging the rule is likely to succeed. This decision, which is seen as a major setback for the NCAA, allows collectives to openly negotiate with high school recruits and transfer portal athletes, making specific NIL offers. The ruling is part of a broader movement towards recognizing college athletes as employees, a development that many see as inevitable, potentially eligible for unionization, amid challenges such as the shrinking college-age population in the U.S. from 2025 to 2037, posing budgetary concerns for colleges. NCAA President Charlie Baker announced plans to convene the DI Board of Directors and Governors to discuss next steps, indicating a shift in NCAA policies and bylaws in Division I. This development follows a decision by the NLRB categorizing Dartmouth basketball players as employees, highlighting the complexities of international student athletes' visa conditions under this new categorization.
ICYMI: Charlie Baker sent a letter to NCAA membership on Monday following Friday’s preliminary injunction in Tennessee. "The ruling affects several NCAA bylaws and policies in Division I, and the NCAA is quickly developing guidance on which rules are enjoined by the court… https://t.co/ZGlop3yvPV
From the memo obtained by @On3sports: "The ruling affects several NCAA bylaws and policies in Division I, and the NCAA is quickly developing guidance on which rules are enjoined by the court order." https://t.co/3IB3D9Q5Qw
NCAA president Charlie Baker has informed membership he plans to convene the DI Board of Directors and Governors to discuss "next steps" following Friday's preliminary injunction in Tennessee, per a letter obtained by @On3sports. More via @PeteNakos_: https://t.co/6ZPH4JMye8 https://t.co/Z7teRvUdRU
This is a really excellent explainer on how the NLRB cases will play out and shape college sport. https://t.co/FxYwpOxQg6
College Athletes as employees? Some say it's inevitable, @McCannSportsLaw explores where the question stands today after another huge ruling against the NCAA this weekend. https://t.co/ODJ9scbgcA
Biden and his union-friendly bureaucrats want to make college athletes eligible for unionization as another giveaway to Big Labor, but doing so could put NCAA student-athletes from other countries at risk of losing their legal status in the United States. https://t.co/DupHhqOha2
What's next (if anything) for the NCAA after Tennessee's injunction was granted late last Friday? We'll look at that fallout plus the departure of one of Kirby Smart's key recruiters, see you at 3 ET 3:00et @McCannSportsLaw 4:00et @adamgorney 5:30et @ByBerkowitz https://t.co/1tge5uhZiE
.@AdamSparks is here with the latest on Tennessee’s legal victory over the NCAA and what it means for its investigation into the Vols https://t.co/YfnU6RCdRc
A Tennessee federal judge agreed to suspend an NCAA rule barring third-party marketing deals to recruit student athletes, finding that an antitrust lawsuit challenging the rule is likely to succeed. Tennessee and Virginia had sued over the rule in January https://t.co/iZV8t0dKWS https://t.co/Fi8HgwO2Ld
.@NLRB made a decision categorizing Dartmouth basketball players as employees. This is problematic because international student athletes violate the terms and conditions of their visas if they’re considered employees. https://t.co/m1mbgmdKsF
On3's NIL Timeline has been updated with Friday's decision granting the Tennessee and Virginia AGs their preliminary injunction against the NCAA. Collectives can now openly negotiate with high school recruits and transfer portal athletes. Full timeline: https://t.co/CpQi130pyf https://t.co/O65ob6i76X
A federal judge agreed to suspend an NCAA rule barring third-party marketing deals to recruit student-athletes. More top news in The Daily Docket: https://t.co/x8O7gsYLuY Subscribe: https://t.co/FAIyjGX96P https://t.co/NmY80r7f3T
ICYMI: On Friday, a judge in Tennessee struck down (at least temporarily) a major NCAA recruiting rule, allowing collectives to make specific NIL offers to recruits. It is a gut punch for the NCAA. It's not a knockout punch. Short thread... https://t.co/PB3O6QhAzh
Interesting look at how the increasing likelihood of college athletes being ruled as employees (and some unionizing) is coming at a challenging demographic moment where the college-age population will shrink dramatically (2025-37), reducing budgets: https://t.co/DBPtNAbdtX
College athletes will become employees and some will unionize. Colleges will face three choices: embrace, resist or cut. They'll do so as the U.S. college-age population shrinks dramatically, causing major budget challenges. I try to make sense of it all: https://t.co/jWMbH2ccGS.
All these issues can easily be solved by acknowledging that certain college athletes are employees and negotiate accordingly, but NCAA “old hats” want their cake and eat it too. So they whine and fight the inevitable 🤦♂️ https://t.co/cCrsXJi2VZ
The chaos of the transfer portal is a function of the fact that universities will do anything not to acknowledge campus athletic workers as employees. There is no reason why players couldn’t have collectively-bargained contracts with set terms. https://t.co/ZUXex4Vzdd https://t.co/NveXU48Bk0
For more than a century, it was a bedrock principle of college athletics: You can’t give recruits $$$. It took barely three weeks for Tennessee and two Attorney Generals to overturn it. The NCAA as we’ve known it is down to its last days. https://t.co/XCv9KiAbcD