A judge on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order allowing Indiana safety Louis Moore to practice with the Hoosiers for the next 14 days, a significant win for the 24-year-old challenging the NCAA’s five-year eligibility rule.

Moore, who started games at both Ole Miss and Indiana, recently filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in district court in Dallas County, Texas, arguing his three years at Navarro Junior College in Texas should not count against his eligibility. Moore also cited potential losses in earnings of around $400,000 from NIL deals.

Moore, who is currently enrolled at IU, graduated from Poteet High School in Mesquite, Texas, and attended Navarro from 2019 to 2022. He played football there, redshirted and was injured, and went to IU, where he played in 2022 and 2023. After his second year at IU, he transferred to Ole Miss for his third season of NCAA football (2024). He stated in his lawsuit that he entered the transfer portal on Dec. 27, 2024, because multiple schools advised him the recent court ruling for Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia would also allow Moore another season of eligibility.

Wednesday’s ruling was a major step closer to that. An injunction hearing on Aug. 27 will determine if Moore is eligible to play this season.

“They’re like a broken record,” Brian P. Lauten, one of Moore’s attorneys, told ESPN. “They keep making the same argument but expecting a different outcome. The NCAA is on the wrong side of this issue. … It violates the Sherman Antitrust Act and they keep making the same argument expecting a different result when what they should be doing is saying, ‘All right, now that some people are getting to play because our legal arguments don’t hold water, we need to have a uniform rule that makes it fair to everyone.'”

Tennessee won’t have to wait until next summer to reap the reward of switching from Nike to Adidas as its apparel provider. In announcing the 10-year deal with the three stripes that will be effective July 1, 2026, Tennessee also revealed that Adidas will immediately become involved in Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) deals with its student-athletes for the 2025-26 academic and athletic year. It expands the partnership between the two entities beyond just uniforms and apparel and better suits the current landscape of college athletics where athlete compensation is paramount to competing for championships in the most prominent sports.

The House settlement earlier this summer ushered in the revenue-sharing era of college sports, and Tennessee and other schools now can distribute up to $20.5 million (and more in the future) to its teams however it sees fit. But the NIL game introduced to college sports in 2021 isn’t going anywhere. The richest and most competitive schools – Tennessee, with its revenue this year nearing $280 million, considers itself in that echelon – undoubtedly will use it on top of the revenue-sharing checks to attract and keep top talent.

That aspect of the Adidas deal surely had to be appealing for Tennessee and athletic director Danny White, who earlier this year vowed that the Vols and Lady Vols were “as competitive as anyone” in college sports.

According to Tennessee’s release, Adidas “will offer unprecedented NIL opportunities for student-athletes across all 20 of the University’s varsity program” and already “is working to land NIL deals with Tennessee student-athletes during the 2025-2026 school year.”

“The role of a college athletics sideline partner has changed dramatically in the 11 years since we last partnered with Tennessee Athletics,” said Chris McGuire, adidas Vice President of Sports Marketing, North America. “adidas is establishing a new standard for investment in NIL with this partnership that will sustain UT’s powerful athletics program as the university continues competing for championships for years to come.”

Once the partnership officially begins next summer, Tennessee athletes will be eligible to participate in the Adidas NIL Ambassador Network, “which gives all student-athletes at adidas-partnered Division I schools the chance to benefit from their Name, Image and Likeness.”

Tennessee’s past partnership with Adidas (1995-2014) included the 1998 football national championship and back-to-back women’s basketball national titles (2007-08). The athletic department is currently in perhaps its best-ever stretch of collective success with Directors Cup finishes of No. 6, No. 3 and No. 6 in the past three years. The run has included two top-10 finishes in football, two Elite Eight appearances in men’s basketball, the 2024 national championship in baseball, two Women’s College World series appearances in the past three years in softball and the resurgence of the Lady Vols basketball program last season.

“From my days rocking the orange and white to now leading on and off the court, adidas has always had my back with the best gear and support,” said Lady Vol basketball legend Candace Parker, the President of Women’s Basketball for Adidas. “Seeing adidas link back up with Tennessee feels like coming full circle. I know this partnership is going to open a ton of doors for the next generation of Vols — and I couldn’t be more hype about it.”

Tennessee athletics is officially making the switch back to Adidas as its apparel and equipment partner, the school announced on Wednesday. In addition to the traditional apparel partnership, Adidas will be providing Tennessee athletes with NIL opportunities throughout the deal.

The Volunteers were originally partnered with Adidas from 1995-2014, at which point they made the jump to Nike. Just over a decade later, Tennessee and Adidas are reuniting on a 10-year deal, which will take effect in July 2026.

During its original run with Nike, Tennessee was no stranger to success on the national stage, including championships in football and basketball. While those memories are nice to have, one of the biggest factors in this deal for the Vols was Adidas’ support in the NIL landscape.

“This partnership provides us with a significant advantage in the ever-evolving landscape of college sports,” Tennessee athletic director Danny White said in a statement. “We take pride in our fan base and the competitive edge they offer us. We refuse to partner with someone who does not feel the same way.”

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In its announcement, Tennessee said that Adidas would provide “unprecedented” NIL opportunities for athletes across all 20 of the school’s varsity sports. In fact, Adidas will immediately start working toward securing NIL deals with Tennessee athletes during the 2025-26 athletic season.

When the deal officially kicks in, the Volunteers will have access to the Adidas NIL Ambassador Network, which is available to all of the apparel company’s partners. That should be key for Tennessee as it looks for legal ways to help athletes boost the NIL earnings outside of the new revenue sharing cap.

The newly-formed College Sports Commission (CSC) has expressed strong opposition to pay-for-play NIL deals. In a recent guidance, the CSC stated that NIL deals must “have a valid business purpose related to offering goods or services to the general public for profit and fall within the range of fair market value compensation.”

If Tennessee’s new partnership with Adidas can help athletes find NIL opportunities that meet those criteria, then it should boost the Volunteers’ efforts in the financial arms race that is college athletics.

When it comes to crafting on-field and on-court looks, Tennessee will still have control as the “primary driver of uniform design.” Back in 2013, Tennessee and Adidas unveiled the “Smokey Grey” alternates, and Nike did their own version of them after taking over. The question will be whether Adidas does its own version of the “Dark Mode” uniforms, which have become popular with Vol fans in recent years.