Visioning is a fundamental competency for great leadership. In these times, our ability as leaders to hold to a vision and its underlying values is being tested. There's no simple answer — given the complexities of funding streams, politics, demographic shifts, and more — for how to stand your ground. Trust your underlying values and principles will be a guide to standing that ground; your vision will help those values and principles manifest and attract energy and resources.
Case name: Letter re: San Diego State University, No. 09232380 (OCR 05/30/25).
Over the past few years, the NCAA's transfer portal has become both a significant and often critiqued aspect of college sport. The portal, initially designed to streamline how student-athletes could transfer from one institution to another, has sparked controversy over issues surrounding student-athletes’ commitment to their school (especially in this name, image, and likeness era), team culture, an organization's recruitment practices, and the overall state of amateur athletics. To help address the concerns held by critics of the transfer portal, the NCAA Division I Council voted in favor of reducing the options available for student-athletes by eliminating the spring transfer window.
Case name: Oldham v. The Pennsylvania State University, et al., No. 22-2056 (3d Cir. 05/29/25).
The recent emergence of student-athletes’ right to profit off their name, image, and likeness has created a new avenue for players to potentially earn previously unimagined levels of compensation. Although hard-fought litigation paved the way for these changes, once NIL rights were established, they were quickly embraced and implemented throughout the country. Various websites and news reports regularly track the millions of dollars fueling this new system of compensation for student-athletes. Given the development of NIL rights and the related economic incentives and rewards that it generated, it wasn’t entirely surprising when high-profile former student-athletes from many years ago began looking for similar opportunities. These student-athletes specifically wanted to capitalize on the videos and photos of their past athletic heroics and achievements that their alma maters and other entities like the NCAA continued to display and share long after their collegiate playing days had ended.
Case name: Powell, et al. v. Seton Hall University, et al., No. 21-cv-13709 (D. N.J. 07/28/25).
As two-time Olympic gold medalist Natasha Hastings (2008 and 2016 Olympics, 4 × 400 relay) saw her track career winding down, she contemplated what the next chapter of her life would be. Although she found psychotherapy of tremendous benefit both athletically and personally, she was often frustrated by the dearth of Black female therapists.
A volunteer baseball coach at Northwestern University was limited to 30 hours per week until the head coach steadily expanded his hours. Within a few months, his workload increased to up to 100 hours per week. The volunteer coach also took on new responsibilities when key members of the staff left. Despite this expanded role, he wasn’t formally compensated beyond two $5,000 payments, which he alleged were attempts to avoid paying a full-time salary and evade NCAA rules.
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