Explore the historic legal settlement, emerging revenue-sharing models, and new financial realities ending the era of NCAA amateurism and revolutionizing the business of college sports.
The approval of the House v. NCAA settlement did not tweak the NIL system. It dismantled the NCAA's century-old compensation model and replaced it with something closer to a salary cap — bolted onto an enforcement regime nobody has tested, built on a "fair market value" standard nobody can define.
For the first time, Division I schools can directly share revenue with athletes at scale. Scholarship caps are gone. Roster limits are in. Collectives are under new scrutiny. Every deal above $600 runs through the NIL Go clearinghouse for a compensation-range review, and anything that does not survive that review goes to arbitration with no meaningful appellate path. Meanwhile, the Title IX, FLSA, and antitrust exposure the court did not resolve is already lining up as the next decade of litigation.
This is not a headline-level overview. This program dissects the legal architecture of the new system the way a practitioner has to read it — where the rules are clear, where they are ambiguous by design, and where the next fight is going to come from. It pulls from real matters the presenter has handled (anonymized to protect client confidences), including a rev-share dispute with a Power Four program, a collective deal that failed clearinghouse review, and the moment a head coach's general manager pressured a high school recruit to sign before the system went live.
Whether you represent institutions, athletes, collectives, sponsors, agencies, or business managers, this CLE delivers the legal reasoning, drafting discipline, and strategic judgment you need to operate in a system where "amateurism" is no longer a defense — and compensation is the new compliance battlefield.
Award-Winning Lawyer @ Leopoldus Law, APC
Brandon's sports and entertainment practice represents professional athletes, college athletes, coaches, agents, business managers, and youth sports organizations across the country. He came to law through an unconventional path that included five years as a professional minor league umpire — time spent inside the business of sports that still shapes how he reads deals, rule changes, and the people on both sides of them. He has negotiated NIL agreements with Power Four football and basketball programs, advised agents and business managers on Uniform Athlete Agent Act compliance, and counseled collectives and sponsors navigating the post-House enforcement regime.
