Overview
- White alleges unnamed programs are promising money they won’t pay and keeping NIL agreements off the books rather than submitting them to the clearinghouse.
- He says Tennessee will not break rules and notes the school’s NIL operations are led by compliance director JB Bowling to guard against violations.
- White calls for penalties if schools bypass the system and says Tennessee could outspend rivals if rule-breaking goes unchecked.
- The new model permits up to $20.5 million in direct school-to-athlete revenue sharing and requires third-party NIL deals of at least $600 to be cleared.
- Opinion coverage questioned White’s moral authority by citing Tennessee’s past infractions, while no new investigations were announced and no schools were named.