New Executive Order on College Sports

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Not sure which thread this goes on, but I'll post it here. The White House has released a 74-page Executive Order focused putting some boundaries around all the NIL and transfers happening in sports. Here's the info posted on the White House website.

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Takes Urgent National Action to Save College Sports​

PROTECTING THE FUTURE OF COLLEGE SPORTS BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to preserve the unique American institution of college athletics by restoring order, fairness, and stability.
  • The Order directs Federal agencies to bolster the effectiveness of key college-sports rules on transferring, eligibility, and pay-for-play by evaluating whether violations of such rules render a university unfit for Federal grants and contracts.
  • Simultaneously, the Order calls on the appropriate governing body to update these rules to restore financial stability and protect the future of all college sports, including women’s and Olympic sports by:
    • establishing clear, consistent, and fair eligibility limits, including a five-year participation window;
    • setting structured transfer rules for academic and athletic continuity;
    • ensuring medical care for student-athletes;
    • implementing revenue-sharing in a manner that protects and expands opportunities in women’s and Olympic sports;
    • banning improper financial arrangements including pay-for-play agreements facilitated by collectives and similar entities; and
    • establishing protections against unscrupulous agent conduct.
  • The Order directs the Administrator of General Services and the Department of Education to increase data collection across college athletics to ensure compliance.
  • The Order directs the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and the Attorney General to take appropriate enforcement actions.
  • The Order also calls on Congress to quickly pass legislation to address these critical issues.
RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF COLLEGE SPORTS AND NEED FOR ACTION AND STABILITY: President Trump recognizes the critical role of American college sports in fostering leadership, education, and community pride, and that decisive action is needed to address urgent threats to its future.
  • College sports is a uniquely American institution that produces great athletes and leaders, fuels our Olympic dominance, and forms an indelible part of American culture and communities.
    • College athletics support over 500,000 student-athletes with nearly $4 billion in scholarships annually, helping forge America’s future leaders, driving local economies, and shaping national culture.
    • The collegiate athletic system produced 75 percent of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team and has yielded countless business and civic leaders.
  • But the future of college sports—and especially women’s and Olympic sports—is under serious threat, as lawsuits have weakened the rules and created a financial arms race that threatens to put many university athletic programs out of business.
  • College sports cannot function without clear, agreed-upon rules concerning pay-for-play and player eligibility that can’t be endlessly challenged in court, as is the case now.
  • The resulting chaos is creating financial pressures that threaten to drain resources from all sports except football and basketball, and from many universities altogether.
  • While Congress is strongly encouraged to expeditiously pass legislation, further delay is not an option given what is at stake and the turmoil and instability currently facing universities across the nation.
PROMOTING A LEGACY OF ATHLETIC EXCELLENCE: This Executive Order builds on President Trump’s longstanding commitment to showcasing American greatness through sports and recognition of its value in forging American leaders and culture.
  • President Trump previously signed an Executive Order providing a clear vision for protecting student-athletes and collegiate athletic scholarships and opportunities, including in Olympic and non-revenue programs, and the unique American institution of college sports.
  • President Trump recently held a roundtable at the White House to address the future of college sports, where he pledged to sign today’s Executive Order.
  • President Trump signed an Executive Order to keep men out of women’s sports, ensuring equal opportunities for women in sports.
  • President Trump played a pivotal role in securing the United States’ bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the United States’ bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
  • President Trump has attended countless sporting events and hosted numerous teams at the White House.
 




















HitMeAgainIAmStillMoving said:
I only disagree about the "quickly" part.
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Almost everyone in the portal will be blocked to transfer.

Someone or someones will sue to overturn it and also ask for a temporary injunction. They will claim that the order is illegal citing statutes and recent SCOTUS decisions. They will say the order needs to be set aside before a trial on the merits can be had because of the immediate, irreparable harm it will cause to the people suing and the likeliness that those suing will win.

The judge will almost certainly agree that they will be irreparably harmed and that they will almost surely win. The judge will then grant the injunction. There's no doubt about it.
 

How does "setting structured transfer rules for academic and athletic continuity" possibly translate into "almost everyone in the portal will be blocked to transfer"?
 

The President of the United States does not have the authority to order federal agencies -- you know, the Executive Branch -- on how to execute enforcement and regulation per existing law?

That's some serious derangement.
 

Ope3 said:
His track record with Professional Football is amazingly poor. Bankrupted an entire league.
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That league was never going to make it just like the current spring football league. IMO, the UFL should be signing 18-22 year old players developing them for the NFL and avoid playing in college all together but that ship's sailed.
 

GopherGrit said:
The President of the United States does not have the authority to order federal agencies -- you know, the Executive Branch -- on how to execute enforcement and regulation per existing law?

That's some serious derangement.
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He can to a degree as long as his order isn't, you know, contradictory to the law, which this clearly is.
 

It's amazing what that guy can do, all at the same time: bomb Iran, ignore the Constitution, use the DOJ to go after his enemies, cut health care, straighten out college athletics, and play golf. He's an inspiration to us all!
 


GopherGrit said:
The President of the United States does not have the authority to order federal agencies -- you know, the Executive Branch -- on how to execute enforcement and regulation per existing law?

That's some serious derangement.
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So what part of the executive branch is the NCAA? Because otherwise this literally means nothing

Also, wtf is this

to restore financial stability and protect the future of all college sports, including women’s and Olympic sports
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What part of "all college sports" wouldn't have included women's and Olympic sports? Everything about this is so fucking stupid.
 

BBJones said:
It's amazing what that guy can do, all at the same time: bomb Iran, ignore the Constitution, use the DOJ to go after his enemies, cut health care, straighten out college athletics, and play golf. He's an inspiration to us all!
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We have an Off-Topic board for the TDS crowd. Take it there Douchey
 

again, the schools and NCAA have made this problem entirely of their own accord. the money is far too large now and throwing around multimillion dollar deals to players you're going to end up with problems until you can find a meaningful way to get both sides to the table to negotiate.

Everything they've proposed so far from the House as well as this EO has all been restrictive on athletes and beneficial to Universities. Nothing like this is going to hold up in court unless it's also the penalty to another student to make them sit out of doing something if they switched schools more than once or to implement a random 5-year clock.

they made their own mess and continue to just escalate the payments. No one is making you pay Darian Mensah (supposedly) $10 million to use his likeness (lol) at Miami or 4mil/year at Duke. But that being said, the ACC decided they don't revenue share for the CFP so Miami made $32million in bonuses last year so they I'm sure are finding ways to make the money work.

It's comical for anyone to think you could just throw in an EO and say no you can't transfer anymore. Only way is to make them employees with contracts that are bound, buyouts, etc. Pretty clear a guy like Mensah could say he's being forced to give up $6mil/year and that's an irreparable harm to him.

The schools/conferences can choose to make terms to things. Trying to make one-sided moves from executive orders is never going to work out or hold up and the only ones making money there are going to be the lawyers who get to go make an layup case in court as to why its unconstitutional now that the cat is out of the bag in calling this amateur sports
 

IMO, the current state of college sports is not sustainable. It used to be that non-helmet schools had a chance to compete by recruiting "diamonds in the rough" and, through coaching and development programs, those 'cruits would become contributors to a successful team. Now that's gone. Every year is wide open for transfers to whoever pays the most. The result is that the rich schools get richer, and competition for conference and national championships becomes narrowed to a very small set of schools. With that, fans of the 90% of teams that don't have a chance to win a title start losing interest - the huge TV contracts start shrinking, the budgets are cut, and it all implodes. Adding some structure back to the system is needed.
 

Full Speed Ahead said:
IMO, the current state of college sports is not sustainable. It used to be that non-helmet schools had a chance to compete by recruiting "diamonds in the rough" and, through coaching and development programs, those 'cruits would become contributors to a successful team. Now that's gone. Every year is wide open for transfers to whoever pays the most. The result is that the rich schools get richer, and competition for conference and national championships becomes narrowed to a very small set of schools. With that, fans of the 90% of teams that don't have a chance to win a title start losing interest - the huge TV contracts start shrinking, the budgets are cut, and it all implodes. Adding some structure back to the system is needed.
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Indiana and Texas Tech come to mind
 

TruthSeeker said:
Illegal. It will get overturned quickly. Waste of time.
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What part of it do you feel is illegal? Note that the EO doesn't prevent schools or players from doing anything; it just states that if they choose not to follow the guidelines, then there's a chance they won't get federal grants. Schools and players can make their own choice. Sure, this will be challenged in court, but to me it's not clear as to the outcome of those challenges. Again, per the EO, no school is being forced by federal statute or court order to adopt or enforce the stated rules. They have a choice and it's completely fine from a legal sense if they choose to ignore them. So again, which part is illegal?
 



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