Prosecutors in both Tennessee and Virginia filed suit against the NCAA a day after UT’s chancellor criticized the body during its investigation into potential recruiting violations of NIL rules by football and other athletic programs. The lawsuit, filed in East Tennessee, alleges that the NCAA enforces rules that unfairly limit how athletes can commercially use their name, image and likeness during a critical time in the recruiting calendar.andquot; Tennessee added:
andquot;These anticompetitive restrictions violate the Sherman Act, harm states and the welfare of their athletes, and should be declared illegal and prohibited. A day earlier, it was revealed that the NCAA is investigating Tennessee’s football program and other sports programs,
as well as the NIL collective, which is funded by boosters and works with athletes. Tennessee responded when Chancellor Donde Plowman wrote a highly critical letter to NCAA director Charlie Baker after school officials met with NCAA representatives to discuss the allegations against the school.
Plowman said administrators in college football and other sports have a duty to students and their families to act in their best interests, but the NCAA has not provided clear rules on how to do that. He criticized the NCAA and the vague and controversial … notes, emails and and;instruction;andquot; it andquot;caused extraordinary chaos.andquot; andquot;In short andquot; Plowman said, andquot;The NCAA is failing.andquot;.
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