Trump Signs Nil Overhaul Order To Curb Big Money Influence In College Sports

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump connected Thursday signed an executive bid prohibiting “third party, pay-for-play” payments to assemblage athletes, a move nan White House is taking to curb “bidding wars” that person roiled assemblage sports successful caller years.

The order, a fact expanse that was shared successful beforehand pinch NBC News by a White House official, notes that caller tribunal rulings person dismantled nan NCAA’s transportation and recruiting rules and “created a chaotic situation that threatens nan financial and structural viability of assemblage athletics.”

The bid could nonstop shockwaves done assemblage shot and men’s basketball, wherever subordinate recruitment successful nan alleged transportation portal has go a multimillion-dollar marketplace successful caller years, pinch apical teams spending tens of millions to capable retired rosters.

The bid would not use to fair-market compensation for athletes who make marque endorsements, according to nan White House.

The bid besides looks to protect women’s and nonrevenue sports by mandating that gross sharing betwixt universities and assemblage athletes beryllium implemented successful a mode that protects those programs.

The president’s bid besides notes that a patchwork of laws successful 30 states person contributed to competitory imbalances successful sports.

It was not instantly clear really nan projected bid would beryllium enforced, aliases what mechanisms were successful spot to guarantee gross is shared much equitably betwixt men’s and women’s and nonrevenue-generating sports.