Category: May-June 2022

By Michael A. Ross, MS According to a recent decision released by the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) Division I Committee on Infractions panel, several violations between 2015 and 2019 were found to have occurred within Ohio State’s fencing, women’s golf, and women’s basketball programs. Based on the scope and scale of the aforementioned multiple…
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When Ike Ukaegbu entered the athletic department offices at Washington State University for the first time on June 13 it represented his exit from a fast-rising compliance career to one of athletic department leadership Ukaegbu spent the past seven years as the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Compliance at Texas Christian University (TCU). While there,…
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By Max Botwinick, GWU Law, Prospective J.D. Candidate 2024 When Louisiana State University Offensive Line Coach James Cregg was fired last year because he visited a potential recruit, Tristan Leigh, during the Coronavirus dead period established by the NCAA during the pandemic, he knew what he did was wrong. In fact, on March 13, 2020,…
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The Division I and Division I Committees on Infraction both played a role in a recent decision by the NCAA involving the University of Alaska Fairbanks. First, Alaska Fairbanks improperly certified 42 student-athletes in nine Division II sport programs, violating amateurism and academic certification rules from the 2017-18 through 2020-21 academic years, according to a…
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By Paul V. Kelly & Katherine B. Brezinski, of Jackson Lewis For the first time since the NCAA issued its Interim Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) Policy on July 1, 2021, the NCAA Board of Directors issued new guidance in an attempt to place some limits on the involvement of boosters in the rapidly growing…
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The Nebraska football program violated NCAA rules for countable coaches and the football head coach violated head coach responsibility rules, according to an agreement released by the Division I Committee on Infractions. The university, Football Head Coach Scott Frost and NCAA enforcement staff agreed that a former football special teams analyst provided technical or tactical…
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Jackson Lewis Names Paul Kelly as Chair of Sports Law Practice Group Jackson Lewis has named Paul Kelly as Chair of its Sports Law Practice Group. Kelly was previously co-chair of the sports law practice group. Kelly has deep experience advising colleges and universities facing allegations of NCAA bylaw violations by athletic coaches, staff and…
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By Lyle Adams, CEO of Spry Last spring, the NCAA issued updated guidance regarding NIL activities. The announcement did not introduce new NIL legislation but rather was a clarification of the loose set of guidelines that were set forth in the NCAA’s interim policy last June.   Hopefully, these minor adjustments foreshadow that more robust NIL…
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