President Donald Trump Thursday published a decree entitled “Saving university sports”, A directive aimed at regulating the landscape quickly changing in university sports.
Since 2021, university athletes have been able to take advantage of their name, image and resemblance after a Supreme Court decision on antitrust laws was in favor of athletes. In the years that followed, players have been legally paid by third parties and after a separation The trial was settled in JuneAthletes can now also be paid directly by their schools.
The Nile era, however, has raised a variety of concerns for schools and athletes, with problems ranging from equality in female sports to a potential thrust for collective negotiations between athletes and their respective colleges.
The order of Trump, which is not itself a law, essentially calls for an implementation of policies which are largely considered as the NCAA (as opposed to the athlete).
Here’s what you need to know.
What is Trump’s order to exactly ask for?
Trump’s order said that, following legislation that allows athletes to be compensated and to freely transfer between schools, “the future of university sports is under an unprecedented threat”.
The work continues by saying that recent decisions have sparked “a maritime change that threatens the viability of university sports” and that more railing is necessary to ensure a fairer system.
So what would Trump want to see? The command calls the following:
- Prohibit third parties from engaging in “Pay-For-Play” direct payments to athletes, which order deems inappropriate. Currently, school boosters can sign players to null -million dollars null offers that are largely considered as a bypass solution to pay players directly to attend a certain university. Trump’s order indicates that players should only gain “just market value” for a legitimate service to a third party, such as brand approval. The defenders of athletes say that it would impose a ceiling on their income.
- Protections on scholarships for non -income sports, forcing schools to maintain or increase scholarships for such sports, according to income from their sports departments. It would be a large part to protect Olympic sports and female sports against potential funding for funding, because more money goes to athletes that generate football and basketball.
- A clarification of the National Council of Labor Relations on the employment status of athletes “which will maximize the educational advantages and the opportunities offered by higher education establishments through athletics”. During the Biden administration, the NLRB published a memo indicating that certain collegial athletes should be considered employees. This memo was canceled earlier this yearAnd now Trump is trying to codify athletes as unprime workers, which will almost certainly remove any occasion that they would have to negotiate collectively with schools.
- Protections for the NCAA of prosecution by athletes. NCAA lobby for these protections for many years, because many major changes in university athletics have come following antitrust proceedings. Protections against other judicial cases would allow the NCAA to enforce its rules on questions such as third -party transfers and payments without fear that they will be upset by another court decision.
What does all this mean for the immediate future?
Nothing immediately.
Trump cannot unilaterally impose rules in this scenario. His decree also comes while the Chamber tries to go through the score law, bipartite legislation which is aligned with a large part of the Trump decree. The score law has evolved by the Committee and can be debated on the soil of the House when representatives return from recess in September.
Meanwhile, there was a bipartite thrust to the Senate to present its version of the legislation concerning university athletes, with Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Senator Cory Booker, DN.J., among the people involved.
“The many challenges faced by university sports are important and complex,” said senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., In a statement at NBC News. “The decree recognizes the importance of preserving Olympic sports, female sports and the maintenance of competitiveness for large and small schools. I am disappointed that the president has abandoned his previous plan for a commission to examine all the problems we face with university schools.
