Report: NCAA looking into Tennessee athletics
Less than a year after closure in the NCAA case involved former coach Jeremy Pruitt, the college sports governing body has been looking into Tennessee again.
In a story published by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde, the probe centers around NIL and involves multiple sports.
Tennessee officials have no comment at this time, but as the article mentions, the university has not received a notice of allegations. Sources have confirmed that over the past six months, the NCAA has been on campus and has spoken to student-athletes.
The NCAA has been trying to get some kind of handle on NIL since it’s creation two years ago. School administrators have suggested the need for guardrails and parameters, but there hasn’t been any.
The governing body is investigating the University of Florida and recently ruled in a case against Florida State where an assistant coach aided a collective in an NIL deal for a student athlete.
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During that time, Ohio State’s collective promoted their landing of Alabama transfer Caleb Downs as the lack of regulation makes things chaotic to say the least.
“We kind of unregulated everything without thinking about how do you organize it so it’s sustainable and people can plan and understand what it is,” Tennessee Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Danny White said back in November. “I think there is a lot of confusion on behalf of upcoming student athletes, recruits and their families, current student athletes and their families, certainly our donors and those that contribute and support.”
“We have great leadership at Spyre and the Boost-Her Club. I think we are one of the leaders nationally in terms of our NIL efforts and our fanbase being the best the in the country have been phenomenal in supporting it.
We are in a very strong position, but nationally, is it going to stay the same? I don’t expect that. I think there will be a lot more movement to kind of organize things so everyone has a better understanding of what’s going on.”
What that movement looks like is unclear, just as what comes of this inquiry is unclear as well.
