No one is worried about football or baseball; it is the lesser programs that need protection. Notice the quotes in the title of the article below.
From Politico:
Trump signs executive order to ‘protect’ college sportsPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to prop up college athletics by limiting programs’ ability to steer money toward sports like football and basketball at the expense of others.The order, which comes amid lawmakers’ heightened interest in having Washington play a role in regulating student-athletes, cast the current state of college sports in apocalyptic terms.It claims that recent litigation has cumulatively chipped away at the NCAA’s ability to police athletes, and has threatened the viability of women’s sports and so-called Olympic sports like gymnastics as more money flows to athletes in revenue-generating programs and schools attempt to lure highly prized recruits from high schools or other colleges.“Absent guardrails to stop the madness and ensure a reasonable, balanced use of resources across collegiate athletic programs that preserves their educational and developmental benefits, many college sports will soon cease to exist,” Trump’s executive order states.To that end, the order requires athletic departments with more than $125 million in revenue during the 2024-2025 season to offer more scholarships in “non-revenue sports” than they did the prior year. Programs with less revenue are instructed to maintain or avoid disproportionately reducing such scholarships, or eliminate roster spots.Separately, Trump’s order seeks to shield college athletics from further litigation and instructs the Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board with “clarifying” the employment status of collegiate athletes.Universities have fiercely resisted attempts to classify college athletes as employees, a designation that gained momentum during the Biden administration and would grant them a host of labor protections. A deluge of legal challenges by current and former athletes, as well as state attorneys general, have succeeded in allowing players to be compensated for their name, image and likeness — resulting in six- and seven-figure payouts for some stars — and undercutting restrictions on athletes’ ability to transfer between schools.
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