The issue of compensation for college athletes is a mine that President Trump has decided to walk directly.
In recent years, university games have already passed through major changes from the world of litigation and name, image and equality (NIL) deals, but the President has indicated that he wants to re -shape the delicate system already.
His most recent action on this subject was one executive Order However, it is very low legal force, can carry forward interaction. In the order, which boldly declares that “saves college game,” Trump calls with third party to ban “pay-for-play” deals as well as to dedicate scholarships and funds to schools to schools.
Trump also wants Labor Secretary and National Labor Relations Board to clarify the employment status of athletes and Attorney General and Federal Trade Commission to investigate the relevant mistakes laws.
Mark Conrad, director of sports business concentration and Professor of Law and Ethics in Gaballi School of Business, Fordham University, said, “It is very clear that President Trump is very interested in sports issues, and it is very clear that he has put himself in this debate, and it is actually the background of that working order,” Sports Business Concentration and Ford Business of Ford Business and Ford Business in the University Professor Mark Conrad, Professor of Ethics said.
Currently, students athletes have won several winning for revenue currents, especially through endorsement and pay-play to attend a specific school.
In his order, Trump targeted the third-party pay-for-play, when an external unit tries to pay an athlete for its sports participation, sometimes disguised as a support.
Quarterback Arc Maning has the highest current NIL assessment of any college athlete for Texas Longhorn’s, which is in $ 6.5 million, earning money from partnership with companies as Uber and Red Bull.
The students witnessed a major victory in June after the ruling anti -landmark trust, known as House Settlement, stated that universities would be allowed to pay their athletes directly to pay their athletes, with an annual cap of $ 20 million per school.
But all these wins have been controversial, unhappy about Conrad notes, pay-to-plays with critics and new rules that allow players to move between colleges without penalty at the time of playing.
Dissatisfaction has given rise to new cases against the disposal of the House.
“Originally, to cover this whole thing, it is that we are still in the period of uncertainty, and we will probably live in a period of some uncertainty, until the national law is not, sports conferences association their own rules or players, Conrad said.
Advocates have started afraid Small number of well -compiled studentsOther sports can be endangered.
Trump’s executive order reads, “Recently litigation waves against collection athletics governing rules have ended athlete compensation, due to pay-for-play recruitment, and transfer between universities, which endanger the viability of the college.”
He said, “Changes are made in providing some increased benefits and flexibility to students-athletes and it should be maintained, inability to maintain appropriate rules and railings is a mortal threat to most college games.”
Many sports that feed in the Olympics, such as swimming, track and gymnastics, NCAA do not generate almost revenue brought by football or basketball.
“It is a matter of concern that it is complicated by the fact that we do not really know how the title IX is being interpreted regarding the payment permitted under the House Basti. Therefore, now, it is now concerned that the schools are going to start to cut the programs to meet their budget shortage,” a lawyer, who advises a lawyer, who advises higher education customers in the field of college athletics.
While the executive order does not have the support of the law, Trump threatened the loss of federal funding on the issue. And this will not be the first time they have withdrawn federal funds from universities for sports-related issues First Hitting Institutions On transgender athletes in women’s game.
But with Trump’s support, the law may have more impact.
“President Trump’s leadership in the party, the entire Republican Party, which is still a majority in the Congress, is unlikely that any law or bill will progress either through the chamber, in fact, if it was not in line with the policy, the policies stated in this executive order.”
The issue is currently the law score act working in its own way through the Congress, which has many characteristics similar to the executive order of Trump.
The Score Act, among other things, will give some confidence protection to the NCAA, but is unpopular among the Democrats, as the college athletes will not be given proper compensation, which means it will be difficult to cross the Senate Philibuster to pass it.
Conrad said, “If the score becomes law, it will be practical implications. It will not return to the era of pre -2000, but it will certainly go back. You are not going to see this movement to behave as employees as employees,” with CONRAD, with creating stability for schools, said.
“This will definitely help NCAA. It will help, of course, will stabilize the system, but not necessarily in the best interest of many students,” he said.
And even colleges may feel rich and powerful that they no longer need to be a part of NCAA or to see it for its rules.
“We are just talking about the law that belongs to NCAA, remember, NCAA is just an outfit. Schools should not be part of NCAA. Long -term concerns are worried that schools with big money do not require NCAA, and simply can create their own unit and at a certain point, if you want to stop it, and if you stop it, you want to stop it, and if you want to stop it, you want to stop it, Are, and if you don’t return it, say, “By, by, NCAA,” Michael Lowe said, a lawyer in higher education and Neel Space for Troutman Paper Locke.
