Legal Showdown: NCAA Sued Over Tennessee Football Investigation Fallout

Legal Showdown: NCAA Sued Over Tennessee Football Investigation Fallout

The NCAA is being sued by the attorneys general of Virginia and Tennessee.

The UT chancellor had chastised the NCAA the day before it launched an inquiry into potential recruitment infractions of NIL regulations in football and other sports programs. The NCAA is accused in the lawsuit of “enforcing rules that unfairly restrict how athletes can commercially use their name, image, and likeness at a critical juncture in the recruiting calendar.”

The suit was filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee. Tennessee further stated: “These anti-competitive restrictions violate the Sherman Act, harm the States, and the welfare of their athletes, and should be declared unlawful and enjoined.”

Following the announcement the previous day that the NCAA was looking into the Tennessee football program, other athletic programs, and a non-profit organization (NIL) that receives funding from boosters and works with athletes, Tennessee officials responded with a strongly worded letter to NCAA chief Charlie Baker.

Plowman stated that while leaders in college football and other sports have a duty to act in the best interests of their students and their families, the NCAA has not provided a clear set of guidelines for how to do so, and that their “vague and contradictory… memos, emails, and ‘guidance'” have “created extraordinary chaos.”

Plowman succinctly stated, “The NCAA is failing.”

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