I mean you gotta hand it to him, the kitchen sink doesn't even begin to describe the amount of sh!t he's flinging against the wall to divert everyone's attention from the Epstelephant in the room Lotta hoops to jump through to make this stick, likely impossible given all the legal hurdles that had to be cleared to approve NIL in the first place
Sounds like it does not ban true NIL contracts. Just those that are clearly not tied to the value of an athlete's name, image, and likeness. It also prohibits classification of athletes as employees
Honestly I hate the NIL and how it’s manipulated, so go Trump in this case? I doubt much will come of it but at least it’s something. Now, about those Epstein files.
Normally I am firmly against bringing football to the politics board, however in this case it make sense. Just very interested to hear from our friends on the Left here, if it was not Trump signing this EO, would you really be against this EO seeing what college football has become since NIL Collectives stood up?
This is the way NIL should have been regulated from the start (not employees, only from NIL *not* pay to play). Unfortunately i doubt this exective order on its own means anything. Not a lawyer but judges kept smacking down the NCAA regulations on this as “illegal restraints on trade”, so to uphold an executive order (as opposed to an act of Congress) would likely require some legal hypocrisy from those very same judges.
Didn't say I was for or against it, particularly given that I don't think this will amount to anything (amazing that the first president to launch a meme coin has his panties in a wad over how and why student athletes get paid for the physical gifts). NIL needs regulation for sure. But I don't think this is the place that regulation is going to originate from
I would absolutely agree with you that Congress needs to eventually take action on this issue. Would you have had an issue with it if Biden had done the same thing saying it was a stop gap measure until could Congress to pass a law to deal with it?
If he did it three days after his failed debate performance and in a week where he also had his cabinet announce that they were releasing classified files on Nixon a day after arguing the Raiders should move back to Oakland and the Dodgers should move back to Brooklyn (for no damn reason) and tweeted an AI doctored video of Trump picking up children from a middle school on a jet ski and being seized by the FBI… if he announced he had a plan to save college football from third party pay to play in a week where he did all that in the wake of his own personal media hell week… yes, I would call Biden out on that
Trump is just trying to bring the U.S. back to the '90's. Well, the 1890's, his favorite decade in American history. And there were no minority athletes making hundreds of thousands of dollars playing college sports in the 1890's, so there will not be any under Trump's watch.
The government acting in its governmental capacity can’t be in violation of antitrust laws (and private actors petitioning the government to take anticompetitive action or impose anticompetitive regulations are generally immune from liability under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine), so the government’s biggest issue in trying to impose these limits won’t be antitrust laws, it will be the question of what statute or constitutional provision grants them the power to do it in the first place. Here’s the order itself for anyone curious: Saving College Sports Looks like it’s trying to pull a bunch of different levers to get there - the Secretary of Education’s Title IX enforcement authority, the FTC and DOJ’s role in antitrust enforcement, and the suggestion that DOJ take the position that state NIL laws are regulating interstate commerce in a way that conflicts with federal policy.
The NIL files were on his desk for four years before NIL started (7/21). Oh well, insurrections and such. Priorities!
The only people that should be worried about the Epstein files are establishment Democrats. Trump told Bondi to release all the files on everyone that went to that rape Island. And the Dems are the ones behind the scenes telling Trump NOT to release that damning list of island visitors. And most of these rich (Dems) people were visitors to the island after Epstein's pedophile case in 2008. The list in being shown on Newsmax/Fox News.
An executive order is merely a "suggestion" unless there is actual legislation with teeth behind it. As long as compliance is essentially voluntary, perhaps the incentive for schools to collude to control costs will outweigh the incentive for some schools to not do so to gain an edge. Collusion is much easier in the NFL with a small number of owners and a salary cap.
Call me this time next year. $10 says nothing changes (or it actually gets worse). Again, we all know what this is about. . .
The stories that they tell themselves to make sense of the world are incredible. Trump has now been recast from the guy saying that the files were written by Obama and refusing to release them back into the guy who wants to release the files but can't because those dastardly Democrats are telling him not to do so and he is powerless to overcome such opposition from the party that literally holds no branches of government. And all of it based on the need to shift reality to avoid certain feelings.
