I’m not really sure what to make of this but why in the hell is he worrying about this now? There’s a lot of big sh!t going on now that needs a lot more attention than this.
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."
Trump plans executive order to address college sports issues - ESPN
Wow, usually his time frame is two weeks. And then another two weeks. And another.
Also, sorry for those who like King Donald, he cannot reverse course here.
Congress should pass a couple of very narrow pieces of legislation. One to allow the NCAA to set its own eligibility standards (we can argue about what those should be but let the schools decide and not Congress on the specifics). The second would be to amend the Sports Broadcasting Act to allow all D1 schools to join together to sell the broadcast rights.
The second one would give the NCAA the freedom to do this, but it would not require it. (The Big10 and SEC might not want to be part of a larger group to negotiate tv rights.)
the problem is with the % of athletes entering the transfer portal each year looking for a greener pasture.
I am not against them having the right to transfer:
but with one simple change - the system would work better:
You have to sit out one year after you transfer (the first time).
you don't have to do this more than one time in your college career, but making this happen once will slow down the knee jerk response of deciding to transfer just because it might be better elsewhere. Athlete should transfer if they are not happy where they are, not because someone else is going to pay them a little more. What is happening now is the mid-majors schools develop the talent and the big schools - effectively steal them away.
I’m not really sure what to make of this but why in the hell is he worrying about this now? There’s a lot of big sh!t going on now that needs a lot more attention than this.
Anything to distract from the Epstein files
I chuckled that he held this meeting while we are effectively at war with another country. It shows how unserious of a person Trump is.
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?
Exactly the issue was not that they were not being compensated, it was that the compensation was not reflective of their market value.
They are not really getting a "free" education either. They are giving (in cases) 40+ hours per week. Let's say the grant is worth $70K per year. Working 2000 hours per year makes their salary $35/hr. Yet at some schools they could be responsible for a lot of revenue.
I am less concerned with them getting paid but I would prefer a little more roster stability. The churn at some schools is incredibly high each year (more a result of liberalized transfer rules that I also am sympathetic to).
A top QB brings a TON of money to a college. Why shouldn't he get paid?
Is not that they get paid but it’s how and how much they get paid. The ncaa went from strict regulations to no regulations. It has less regulations than pros. That’s why some pro athletes are going to college for better pay. The system has went Wild. The best college and the one with the boosters that spend the most. That doesn’t even happen in the nfl.
Top college athletes should make more money than just scholarships. But millions and the ability to change teams yearly? It’s just too wild and goes against what college athletics is suppose to be about.
Now grandpa trump isn’t going to get the old system like he wants. However, it does need better regulations to make it reflect concept of STUDENT athletics.
Baseball pretty much has that system. A big difference is that pro athletes are employees of the organization. College athletes are not. So the restrictions on pro athletes that come with employment cannot be applied to college athletes (yet). Colleges have fought the idea of athletes being employees since the 50s (the term "student-athlete" was coined in a fight not to have to pay workman's comp for an injured football player in a lawsuit).
If they are employees then labor law can be more directly applied. Contracts can be enforced easier. Of course there are also downsides to that (working hour restrictions, workman's comp, etc.).
Whatever he says, he'll change his mind 5 times in the next 48 hours, because he doesn't understand how anything works, doesn't CARE how anything works, and can barely stay awake at this point, let alone produce a coherent thought about anything substantive. We have a vegetable-in-chief.
The thing is that the athletes are getting paid by conglomerates that are supposedly not affiliated with the university but clearly coordinate with the coaches. The name, image, and likeness of some random above average offensive lineman isn’t worth much in an actual individual marketplace - no shoe company or fitness brand is going get any return on partnering with them and using their name. But the conglomerates will pay because they know that linemen win football games, not because the name, image and likeness of the linemen is valuable to businesses.
I am supportive of players earning money on their own using their talents, but not in the way that the current system operates. If Fernando Mendoza wants to independently sign an apparel deal with Nike that’s great, but that’s not the same as someone like Mark Cuban cutting him multi-million dollar checks for playing for Indiana and not some other school.
No, they are not. The House settlement eliminated the NIL collectives.
The athletes are now being paid directly by the schools who have a salary cap of 20.5 million.
Legitimate NIL deals with Nike, Adidas, etc are still allowed.
Collectives are still around. The nature has changed a bit, but they are still involved at some schools. (Some schools have disbanded theirs as well.)
Okay but Transfer portal needs fixing, penalties needed except for the rarest situations like a coach getting fired. Being able to switch teams, especially to a rival, because of "feels" or money is crazy. Woah, Trump is a man of action. The last guy would've been on the beach eating a pudding completely out of it on a Friday.
Why shouldn't a player be able to go to a rival? Coaches do it. Will Muschamp went to Georgia and was the head coach of both Florida and South Carolina. (Each is a rival of UGA in one degree or another.)
People go from working for Wendy's to McDonald's or Xerox to IBM.
Man of action? Maybe at times, but he has NO power or authority here.
Penalties likely would violate anti-trust laws. The latest idea of suspending a coach for signing a transfer outside of the portal is the latest stupid rule to come down the pike that will not last in court (it seems like a clear restraint of trade by imposing draconian penalties for the action involved).
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.
Screw the waivers. 24 seems reasonable. If you turn 24 during a season, you get to complete that season. But I think it would take legislation to allow it to happen. The age thing seems like a blatant age discrimination situation. (To have an age restriction you need a pretty good justification for it as with commercial pilots.)
I think that the NBA rules should go back to the Lebron/Kobe days. There is no reason to go to college for a year or play overseas for a year if you can make the NBA.
NFL is a very different story. The NFL set that rule (3 years out of HS) for its own protection (and the players also voted for it as they wanted to protect their jobs from cheaper labor). The physical maturity of a guy who just graduated from HS is rarely, very rarely there to make it in the NFL. Look at how rookies who went to college struggle their rookie seasons. The NFL instead uses a free farm system. They are pretty smart in that regard.
