A federal district court in Tennessee recently issued a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the NCAA’s NIL-recruiting ban with respect to student-athletes.
The court found that the ban limited student-athletes’ negotiation leverage and prevented them from understanding “their true NIL value.”
The court held that the recruiting ban likely violated federal antitrust law and that irreparable harm would be done to the states’ student-athletes if the ban were permitted to remain in place.