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Dan Murphy
President Donald Trump has directed his cabinet members to develop a plan in the next 30 days with the aim of preserving college sports opportunities and preventing college athletes from becoming professionals. He signed an executive order on Thursday,
Trump’s order determines specific guidelines for conservation of athletic scholarship based on the annual revenue of an athletic department. It also announces that schools should not allow athletes to accept “third-party, pay-play pay”. The order stated that Education Secretary Linda McMahon should use future federal funding decisions among other equipment to force schools to follow the policy of administration.
The NCAA has always banned pay-for-play payment from third parties. Over the years, college sports leaders have struggled to find ways to prevent athletes from paying through contracts in the most rich schools in the industry that are support deals on paper, but actually actually act.
Trump said, “There is an urgent need of a national solution to prevent this situation from deteriorating beyond repair and protecting non-revenue games including many women’s games, including the backbone of intercollegeate athletics,” Trump said in order.
The executive order states that the support deals from the third parties should be allowed as long as they reflect the “proper market price”.
Power 4 conferences launched a new enforcement agency this month-College Sports Commission-In an attempt to vet the athletes of the third-party deals, to ensure that they are proper payments for endorsement rather than a brave pay-play arrangement. It is not yet clear whether the new policy of administration can help strengthen those efforts.
The long -held prohibition of NCAA on paying athletes has fallen under pressure from legal challenges and a litni of state laws in the last decade. The association and its power conference formally agreed to an antitrust settlement in June, which would allow schools to pay their athletes directly up to $ 20.5 million in the coming academic year. Those payments have also been designated as an endorsement contract on paper, but will possibly serve as a real salary.
Steve Burman, one of the co-Lead Wadi Vaili in the Antitrest Basti, criticized Trump for trying to intervene.
Burman said last week, “Plain and simple, college athletes do not need Trump’s help, and they should not support NCAA at the expense of athletes.” “… As a result of our case, college athletes are now free to do their deal. Trump wants to set his foot on the abilities to make deals, he is unfair and the art of the deal ‘provokes his own philosophy on the art of the deal.”
NCAA President Charlie Baker said that the association would still need help from federal MPs to create competitive balance in college sports. In particular, Baker and other college sports leaders have asked the Congress to provide them an antitrust exemption so that they can implement the rules, many of which will limit the athlete power.
In a statement about Trump’s Executive Order, “Baker focuses on the opportunities for the life-changing opportunities of the Trump administration,” the association provides college games to millions of youth and we are ready to work with a bilateral alliance and Trump administration in students, Congress, Congress. ,
A presidential executive order cannot provide antitrust security for NCAA. However, a bill that NCAA will give to Broad Antitst Leve was approved by two separate house committees this week. It may soon be called for full vote in the House of Representatives as September. The bill, which has received very little support from the Democrat, will still need to pass through the Senate.
Thursday’s executive order stated that athletic departments that bring more than $ 125 million during the previous academic year should increase the number of scholarships providing athletes in non-revenue games. The athletic departments that brought in at least $ 50 million cannot reduce the number of scholarships provided by them in sports.
The overwhelming majority of schools in four power conferences reach a limit of $ 50 million, while about 30 to 40 schools have topped the $ 125 million mark in recent years. Many of those highest -acquired schools have already announced a plan to publicly increase their scholarship yoga.
The order calls the Labor Secretary and the National Labor Relations Board a way to clarify the employment status of college athletes that will “maximize educational benefits and opportunities” for all athletes. This does not provide any specific timelines for those agencies to function.
As the schools start paying their athletes, the leaders of the college play against them to behave as employees. Those leaders say that many schools cannot take the same number of teams in the field if all athletes are declared employees. They also say that most college athletes do not want to become employees.
Two separate groups of athletes have asked NLRB to identify them as employees in the last two years. Both cases were released soon after Trump was elected. If the NLRB said that the college is not athlete employees, the future athletes will not be able to do a union and bargaining for more money or better work.
Many football coaches have recently stated that they believe that it would be more understandable – more stability – if their players were considered employees and were able to collectively bargain.
Louisville coach Jeff Brohum told ESPN earlier this month, “The best way to do this is that players are employees and you have a salary cap.” “If the players are being paid, why don’t we do it properly? Attracting is not anymore. Let’s not pretend that it is.”
There is an ongoing federal case (Johnson vs. NCAA) argues that athletes should be considered an employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In that case, the plaintiff’s lawyer, Paul McDonald’s, has earlier argued that any action preventing the college athletes from having employees will be unconstitutional as it will treat the athletes of the work that is different from the work of other students who conduct campus jobs.
