Trump plans executive order to address college sports issues - ESPN
We don’t know which one will come first, his healthcare plan in two weeks, college sports grand plan in one week, or Ukraine peace plan within 24 hours. He got so many great ideas for the maga cult to cheer him on.
Well,.there was the Iran leadership top 50 issue, where it took 50 seconds to solve 50 problems 😎
Let's not forget "infrastructure week" during his first term, when he took along (I kid you not) a binder compiled during the Obama administration and talked about how he was going to fix all of America's roads and bridges.
Got home, put the binder away, and we never heard from that again.
Before NIL, student-athletes were being paid. It was called an athletic scholarship. Free board, food, travel, healthcare, and most importantly, a free education. Enough of this NIL crap.
A top QB brings a TON of money to a college. Why shouldn't he get paid?
because the government makes that same athletic program spend millions of dollars on sending the women's rowing team all over the country...
it's funny that the same people who preach equity ignore all the athletes except the ones at the very top
Agree with this. The current system is a mess. It is biased against US athletes, is completely opposed to the fundamental educational role of the US collegiate system, it benefits a select few high end athletes but it has ruined a system that worked well for a much broader swath of student athletes.
No, it is biased against international athletes. They are not allowed to "work" under student visas, so their NIL opportunities are limited compared to US athletes.
Toby Fournier flew back to Canada during off season to shoot some photos for her sponsor because she is not allowed to do so in the US. Clara Struck was doing a Turbotax commercial during the March Madness last year. It could have been Fournier instead if she had been allowed to work in the US. Syla Swords is another player who could be highly marketable if she were an American. She has the game, the personality and everything else the sponsors look for.
This is never an issue with football because there are so few international athletes. But there are more than Track &Field / Cross-Country and football in NCAA sports in case you didn't know.
The age limits are biased against US athletes. A 28 yo Kenyan can compete from age 18-28 then sign as a freshman but an American has a one year grace period. After that they cannot compete outside of college or it counts against their elligibility
Follow the money. It's likely a pay-to-play move. Does anyone here really believe Trump has spent even five minutes contemplating the issue? In his entire life. Who benefits the most from a rollback?
But, while he's on sports rampage, why not take the opportunity to ask him to lift the 369 runners limit on the Western States 100 race? Just present it as green-liberal crackdown on American freedom to do business and it's a slam dunk by next week - and EVERYONE can get in already this year! ;-P
We don’t know which one will come first, his healthcare plan in two weeks, college sports grand plan in one week, or Ukraine peace plan within 24 hours. He got so many great ideas for the maga cult to cheer him on.
I’m still waiting on my golden, made in the USA Trump Phone.
This low energy, senile, failed rich kid thinks he can insert himself into every issue. He was pushed into attacking Iran and has destabilized the entire region, innocent people are dying, a country is being destroyed and he has time to pretend he is going to do something about this. Running a country through spectacle. His shield of the americas will make a few headlines but do nothing to curtail the demand in this country and stop the supply of guns that come out of this country to the cartels. And he knows his executive orders are feckless and only more spectacle. Pretend you’re doing something day after day, sowing chaos and confusion just to make a headline and distract.
I can't believe there isn't a lot of talk about this.
yahoo wrote:
He wants to put college sports’ proverbial toothpaste back into its collective tube.
Why can’t the industry “go back to the old system?” Trump asked a room of astonished and stoic faces. “I’d like to go exactly back to what we had and ram it through a court.”
In fact, Trump plans to attempt to do just that, he said during the 100-minute college sports roundtable event that left many in the room a bit mystified and those watching from afar somewhat stunned.
While disregarding and disparaging court decisions that have opened a path for athlete compensation, Trump announced plans to release a second executive order — this one “more comprehensive,” he said — that is intended, it appears, to reimplement unlawful policies of the pre-NIL era.
The executive order will be strong enough in its language that Trump expects it to invoke legal challenges.
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ESPN wrote:
"I will have an executive order within one week, and it will be very all-encompassing," Trump said. "And we're going to put it forward, and we're going to get sued, and we're going to see how it plays, OK, but I'll have an executive order, which will solve every problem in this room, every conceivable problem, within one week, and we'll put it forward. We will get sued. That's the only thing I know for sure."
Before NIL, student-athletes were being paid. It was called an athletic scholarship. Free board, food, travel, healthcare, and most importantly, a free education. Enough of this NIL crap.
Actually, it was called "boosters giving players hundreds of thousands of dollars under the table."
Let’s just start with age limits. 24 is old enough. That accounts for undergrad and grad school. Anyone above 24 needs a waiver under the strictest of guidelines.
Cooper Lutkenhaus has honestly shifted my view on this. If a 16-17 year old can dominate pros and go pro then the NFL, NBA, etc should no longer have age restrictions then I can get behind removing NIL but until then players should get paid for their likeness period.