The Price of Transferring: Ole Miss Lawsuits Test Whether Schools Can Make Athletes Pay to Leave

By Robert J. Romano, JD, LLM, St. John’s University, Senior Writer In this rapidly changing world of college athletics, we as industry professionals and fans are bearing witness to something new: contested litigation between universities and student-athletes over contracts involving name, image, and likeness (“NIL”). Case in point, the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), true to its rebel spirit, filed lawsuits against two of its former players, defensive end Princewill Umanmielen and of