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While President Donald Trump carries out one of the most focused on the sport of history, his recent executive order of “Saving College Sports” has caused a strong response from the veteran sports agent Leigh Steinberg.
“They were responding to a need that the recruitment and transfer portal had gone out of control,” Steinberg told Fox Digital.
The NCAA logo is shown in the center of a Basektball court. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, Archive)
The Executive Order, which aims to regulate the university sports business by putting restrictions on which parties can pay university athletes and demand the preservation of resources for women’s sports, arrived at a time when more money is put on than ever to university athletes.
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The recent agreement of the Supreme Court of House vs. NCAA legalized, for the first time, universities to pay university athletes directly through income exchange. Previously, university athletes were only allowed to earn money through NIL. But Trump’s mandate prevents athletes from legally accepting the money of any third -party source to play for a certain school.
“He had some positive elements because he is trying to regulate a field that has not been regulated,” said Steinberg.
Steinberg believes that restricting the “groups”, which means that third parties that paid athletes to pay for certain universities, was essential to maintain the right recruitment.
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“While [schools] You can still bring a player, you will have to adjust the value of the fair market, “said Steinberg.” It should cool the volatile recruitment market for money. ”
Steinberg also praised the intention of the Executive Order to protect and preserve resources for university sports that are not male football and basketball, especially women’s sports that do not generate so many income.
“It has a series of standards based on the size of the income of the Athletics Department that requires not to reduce scholarships for players in those sports, so it is a protection device,” Steinberg said.
“If part of the objective is to provide the most educational opportunities for most students, and we believe that playing sports is one of those, then it cannot simply be university football, basketball and female basketball; it must be a broader burden on protecting those sports.”
The executive order only presents general objectives and gives the Trump administration 30 days to design a framework before implementing it.
President Donald Trump stops an executive order after signing it during an interior opening parade on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC (Anna MoneyMaker/Getty images)
Steinberg believes that the defined language of the order must specifically determine which third parties can contribute to recruitment to prevent a payment for third -party game from occurring effectively, without other resources occurring to the university sports programs of the reinforcements and does not hinder the NIL market.
“It has to have guidelines in terms of what external groups or organisms can or cannot do in terms of contributing money to that recruitment process, and then you have to install certain metrics and criteria on which acceptable agreement is based on the brand and marketing of the players,” Steinberg said.
Steinberg also requested the implementation of a salary limit in university football and male basketball.
