Vols football fan hangs huge UT flag at courthouse of NCAA hearing

Inside the courthouse, as Tennessee prepares to make its case against the NCAA. Outside, an enterprising Volunteers fan was making a case of their own.

As the program heads to court in its suit revolving around NIL rules, it appears somebody got hold of a giant UT flag, rented a crane, and parked them both across the street to make a statement of support outside.

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The attorneys general of both Tennessee and Virginia filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, one day after the UT chancellor criticized the body amid its investigation into possible recruiting violations related to NIL rules in football and other sports programs.

The suit, filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee, claims that the NCAA is "enforcing rules that unfairly restrict how athletes can commercially use their name, image, and likeness at a critical juncture in the recruiting calendar."

The lawsuit comes after it was revealed that the NCAA was investigating the Tennessee football program and other athletic programs and an NIL collective funded by boosters that works with athletes.

And while Tennessee's lawyers argue the case inside the courtroom, there's at least one notable protest on the outside.

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