The NCAA has lost the authority to enforce any rules on name, image and likeness compensation for student-athletes, for now and potentially for good.
Federal judge Clifton Corker granted a preliminary injunction suspending the NCAA's NIL rules as part of the lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia against the organization, according to Adam Sparks of the Knoxville News Sentinel. The decision will apply nationwide.
Corker found that the current NIL rules caused irreparable damages to student-athletes and the NCAA's ban on using NIL money as recruiting inducements "likely violates federal antitrust law.