Old golfer issues executive order for college sports

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Donald Trump officially issued his expected college sports executive order on Thursday.

According to the White House, the executive order “prohibits third-party, pay-for-play payments to collegiate athletes.” However the order “does not apply to legitimate, fair-market-value compensation that a third party provides to an athlete, such as for a brand endorsement.”

Additionally, the order asks the Labor Department and the National Labor Relations Board to “clarify the status of student-athletes in order to preserve non-revenue sports and the irreplaceable educational and developmental opportunities that college sports provide” and tells Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Federal Trade Commission to “take appropriate actions to protect student-athletes’ rights and safeguard the long-term stability of college athletics from endless, debilitating antitrust and other legal challenges.”

The issuance of the executive order was no surprise, and it's unclear what the immediate or long-term impact of it would be on college sports, if there is any. It’s been publicly floated for months.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/college-football/breaking-news/article/president-donald-trump-issues-executive-order-for-college-sports-204418513.html

Slobfather thinks he's king.

[Jilly_in_VA]

1. I don't think he has any jurisdiction there

It's the NCAA's fiefdom, not his. Just like he has nothing to say about the NFL orpro baseball.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

2. He has...

...the threat of withholding federal funding to schools that don't comply.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. What a pissant

Gotta have his finger in ALL the pies!

[SickOfTheOnePct]

3. What NIL was supposed to be v. what NIL has turned into

is pretty stark.

I'm all for student-athletes being able to get endorsement deals.
I'm all for student-athletes getting a cut of what universities make from selling items with the athletes' name, image, likeness.
I'm against boosters and schools putting together huge pay packages to lure student-athletes to specific schools.

Also, IMO, there needs to be a mechanism whereby after a certain level of student-athlete earnings every year, they have to pay the school back the value of the athletic scholarship.