President Trump is considering investigating an executive order to investigate payments to university athletes and whether they have created an unfair system, according to two people who informed about this.
Mr. Trump’s focus on the issue – which he talked about in the past was one of the people who were aware of the noted after he had spoken Nick SabanThe famous former football coach of the University of Alabama, backstage at an event Thursday evening in Tuscaloosa, where Mr. Trump delivered an address to graduates.
The Wall Street Journal Reported for the first time about Mr Trump’s consideration. The two people who were informed in it were not authorized to speak publicly.
The executive order would tackle new extensive options for student athletes to make money with their athletic career. Last year, the NCAA, the organization that controls many of the university sports, agreed to arrange a Class-Action Antitrust-Rechtszaak That had accused the members of the members of exploiting student athletes while hampering the profit of the lucrative university sport industry.
The settlement of $ 2.8 billion, That approval is approachingCreated a plan for sharing income for university athletics in which schools would immediately start paying their athletes, a great stir in the sports landscape of the college. The NCAA has already removed limitations for athletes who make money with their athletic career through approval and sponsorship – known as “Name, image and parable” payments.
The changes started a weapon race in the university athletics, because rich teams offered ever larger compensation packages to lure top talent in their programs. Star players have since then Signed deals with a value of millions of dollars.
Saban, while coaching the Alabama Crimson Tide football team, criticized the payments and said that the system preferred rich sports programs for universities who could afford to offer the best players a better compensation. He argued that the system Was not ‘sustainable’.
Saban could not be reached immediately for comment. Other critics have said that the payments of university sports, beyond football, deform the competitiveness. This year National basketball tournament for men, loved by fans because of the unpredictability, the least disruptions In recent memory.
Mr. Trump, who owned a team in the short duration in the 1980s According to football competition of the United StatesHas many allies under Famous athletes and rich Team owners. He quickly weigh on sporting issues as a candidate and as president.
Mr. Trump is particularly vocal about cultural sports. In 2017, He urged NFL owners to dismiss players who was not in front of the national anthem as a way to protest against racial injustice and police violence. He has defended the names of sports teams With Indian names and imagesCriticize the ultimately successful movement to change them as political correctness.
The president continued to fix on that specific issue. As recently as last week, Mr. Trump once again criticized the name changes for those teams and announced his opposition against changing a Sports mascot of a public high school in Long Island.
“I think the Indian population is a large part of this country,” Mr. Trump said and added, “I think it is humiliating for the Indian population.”
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