The NCAA has resolved the demand with the general prosecutors of Tennessee and Virginia and other states about their rules that prohibit the name, image and compensation of similarity for recruits.
Note that an agreement has been reached in principle with a signed term sheet was presented on Friday before the United States District Court for the East District of Tennessee, in Greeneville. A state report was due on Friday. The agreement will be ended together with a request for a permanent court order before March 17, according to the presentation.
“The NCAA has reached an agreement that solves the problems of Tennessee and the other states involved raised without raising an obstacle to complete the settlements of the house, Carter and Hubbard,” said the NCAA in a statement. “We anticipate that the complete terms will be launched later in spring.”
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said they blocked the “illegal application” of NCAA against Tennessee students and schools.
“Now this agreement in principle establishes the bases for a permanent solution,” Skrmetti said in a statement.
This resolves the antitrust demand presented exactly a year ago by the general prosecutors of Tennessee and Virginia challenging the prohibition of the NCAA on the use of the compensation of name, image and likeness in the recruitment of university athletes. That demand was an answer to the NCAA research on athletics of the University of Tennessee for possible recruitment infractions.
The United States District Judge, Clifton Corker, issued a preliminary judicial order last February that undermined what had been a fundamental principle of the NCAA amateurism model for decades: third parties cannot pay recruits to attend A particular school. The court order of Corker forbade the organization to enforce its rules that prohibit compensation for the name, image and likeness of the recruits granting a preliminary court order required by the states of Tennessee and Virginia.
It was another blow to the NCAA's ability to govern university sports and more than 500,000 athletes.
The NCAA had requested an extension before presenting an answer on January 20 in the demand to which New York, Florida and the Columbia district were also joined. A State Conference had been scheduled for January 23.
The demand argued that the NCAA was “making rules that unfairly restrict how the athletes can commercially use their name, image and likeness at a critical situation in the recruitment calendar” and that “these anti -competitive restrictions violate the Sherman law, damage the states and the well -being.
Skrmetti and Virginia's attorney general, Jason Miyares, a temporary restriction order was denied. But the judge granted the preliminary judicial order that prevented the NCAA from imposing the Nil recruitment rules while the lawsuit was developed.
While the final details are solved, Skrmetti said that the attorney general agreed an agreement that protects the name, image and likeness of athletes while recruiting.
The NCAA will also be forbidden to “revive its prohibition of null recruitment,” Skrmetti said.
The lawsuit was filed a day after the Chancellor of the University of Tennessee torn the NCAA to investigate the school for possible recruitment violations related to null agreements between athletes and an organization financed and financed by the reinforcement it provides to the Volunteer athletes The opportunity to collect your fame in your fame. .
This has been only one of the legal cases facing the NCAA.
Friday was the deadline for objections to the so -called camera settlement for $ 2.8 billion of antimonopoly accusations against the NCAA and the largest conferences of the nation that will be presented. The concerns range from the limits of the list and title IX to what some call an unfair salary limit.
The deadline came on Friday to present objections to the so -called camera settlement, which requires that former athletes receive millions of subsequent payment and also provide schools with the option to distribute up to $ 20.5 million a year in payments to athletes for the Use of your name, image and likeness (null).
