Protecting the House

From Inside Higher Ed: The National Collegiate Athletic Association and four states plus the District of Columbia have settled a lawsuit over the association’s rule prohibiting the use of name, image and likeness compensation in the recruitment of athletes, Sportico, ESPN and others have reported.

Attorneys general in Tennessee and Virginia filed the suit last February after the NCAA threatened to penalize the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for alleged rules violation. The lawsuit, which also included Florida and New York, argued that the NCAA’s NIL recruiting ban violated antitrust law by restricting the ability of athletes to benefit commercially from NIL deals...

The outcome represents a blow to the NCAA’s authority over college athletics and could pave the way for a judge to approve the settlement in House v. NCAA antitrust litigation. If passed, the settlement would require the NCAA to pay $2.8 billion in back pay for the use of athletes’ NIL since 2016, as well as create a revenue-sharing model in which participating colleges would distribute a fifth of their annual revenue to their players...

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/04/ncaa-tennessee-settle-case-against-nil-recruitment-ban.