{"id":45255,"date":"2025-07-25T00:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45255"},"modified":"2025-07-25T00:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:05:21","slug":"trump-signs-nil-overhaul-order-to-curb-big-money-influence-in-college-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45255","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs NIL overhaul order to curb big money influence in college sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order prohibiting \u201cthird party, pay-for-play\u201d payments to college athletes, a move the White House is taking to curb \u201cbidding wars\u201d that have roiled college sports in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The order, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/07\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-saves-college-sports\/\">fact sheet that<\/a>&nbsp;was shared in advance with NBC News by a White House official, notes that recent court rulings have dismantled the NCAA\u2019s transfer and recruiting rules and \u201ccreated a chaotic environment that threatens the financial and structural viability of college athletics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The order could send shockwaves through college football and men\u2019s basketball, where player recruitment in the so-called transfer portal has become a multimillion-dollar market in recent years, with top teams spending tens of millions to fill out rosters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The order would not apply to fair-market compensation for athletes who make brand endorsements, according to the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The order also looks to protect women\u2019s and nonrevenue sports by mandating that revenue sharing between universities and college athletes be implemented in a manner that protects those programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The president\u2019s order also notes that a patchwork of laws in 30 states have contributed to competitive imbalances in sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It was not immediately clear how the proposed order would be enforced, or what mechanisms were in place to ensure revenue is shared more equitably between men\u2019s and women\u2019s and nonrevenue-generating sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-signs-nil-overhaul-college-sports-pay-to-play-rcna220933\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order prohibiting \u201cthird party, pay-for-play\u201d payments to college athletes, a move the White House is taking to curb \u201cbidding wars\u201d that have roiled college sports in recent years. The order, a&nbsp;fact sheet that&nbsp;was shared in advance with NBC News by a White House official, notes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":45256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2381,34118,2310,2849,1230],"class_list":["post-45255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ban","tag-college-sports","tag-cost","tag-executive-order","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45257,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45255\/revisions\/45257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}