For years, the NCAA's prohibition on student-athletes betting on college sports, particularly wagering on games involving their own team, was viewed as one of the clearest and most firmly enforced rules in college athletics. A recent court ruling involving Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby, however, may signal that even those...
By Daniel Ain and Ariana Zhao The House v. NCAA settlement, reached in 2025, permitted universities and colleges, for the first time, to directly compensate Division I athletes. As we discussed at the time of the House settlement last year,[1] depending on how name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) licensing agreements...
RPJ’s Daniel Ain was recently quoted in the Associated Press in an article examining the high-profile transfers of brothers Nico and Madden Iamaleava and the broader implications for Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) buyouts in college football. Contracts between student-athletes and collectives – booster groups that support a specific university’s...