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Legal Analysis


Jeremy Pruitt's Attorney Makes Rookie Mistake in Threatening Letter to Tennessee
October 29th is fast approaching. While this date should be meaningless, the attorney for Jeremy Pruitt, the former Nick Saban assistant...

Grant Williamson
Oct 22, 20213 min read


Conference Realignment Landscape: C-USA & AAC
When the news came in that Texas and Oklahoma were leaving the Big 12 for the SEC, we knew a major trickle-down effect was on the horizon...

Brendan Bell
Oct 18, 20213 min read
“Whoa, Tellie!”: Analyzing College Football’s Big 2021 TV Ratings
In 1984, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided its seminal case dealing with college athletics, National Collegiate Athletic Association v....
John Rigby
Oct 15, 20213 min read
Gonzaga HQ: Too Weak a Punishment for a Few Too Many?
On September 6th Gonzaga Men’s Basketball Coach, Mark Few was given a DUI citation while coming home from his vacation in Idaho....
Chris D'Avanzo
Oct 11, 20214 min read
Is a Patchwork of State NIL Laws Unconstitutional?
BY: MICHAEL FASCIALE Can the NCAA successfully argue that the fractured state-by-state approach to name, image, and likeness (NIL)...
condetrimental
Oct 5, 20214 min read
NIL Deal Structure for Student-Athletes, Businesses, and Institutions
BY: RJ CURINGTON Student-athletes across all collegiate sports have signed name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) agreements with businesses....
condetrimental
Oct 4, 20214 min read


Bringing Down the House: The NCAA and the Power 5 Conferences Response in NIL Litigation
On Wednesday, September 22, 2021, the NCAA and each of the Power 5 Conferences filed an answer in In Re College Athlete NIL Litigation...
John Sigety
Oct 1, 20214 min read
NIL – New Intraconference Lucrativeness
BY: MICHAEL MILLSTEIN While many of us anticipated that 2020 had cemented its legacy as the craziest year of the current decade, those in...
condetrimental
Sep 30, 20214 min read
NLRB General Counsel: College Athletes ARE Employees
Amidst several ongoing lawsuits where college athletes are asserting that they are employees of the universities they play at under the...

Grant Williamson
Sep 29, 20214 min read
“College Athletes are Employees”, says NLRB, Potentially Clearing the Path for Unionization
In yet another win for college athletes, National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has issued a memo that...
John Nucci
Sep 29, 20213 min read
Alcohol & The NCAA: Opening Up Pandora’s Beer Case
The classic sit-com Cheers went off the air in May of 1993, but a reboot might be in the works in South Florida. Instead of “Hey, Norm!”...
Conlan Farrell
Sep 28, 20213 min read
In NIL, College Coaches Might Only Be As Good As Their Local Businesses
When NIL came into effect, many people predicted there would be a plethora of “unintended consequences'' in the college athletics...

Brendan Bell
Sep 28, 20213 min read
Note to Business Student-Athletes: Don’t Forget Taxes
BY: RJ CURINGTON The National Collegiate Athletic Associations and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics new name, image,...
condetrimental
Sep 24, 20214 min read
The NIL Era Does Not Actually Disadvantage Small Sport Student-Athletes
A major argument against allowing student-athletes to profit off their name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) that was made pre-Alston and is...

Grant Williamson
Sep 23, 20214 min read
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