President Trump signs order to change NCAA eligibility, transfer rules
Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 3, set to alter rules on transferring and eligibility for college athletes.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that is intended to keep college athletes from playing college sports for "more than a five-year period" on Friday, April 3. The order is also intended to prevent college athletes from being able to transfer schools more than once before graduation without having to sit out a season of competition. Starting Aug.
1, these changes will be implemented. And starting Aug. 1, if any school plays an athlete who is not following these new guidelines, the school is at risk of losing its federal funding.
Therefore, the punishments for breaking these rules would vary from school to school because not every school receives the same amount of federal funding. This executive order also said that the NCAA should amend its rules to implement a national registry for the agents of athletes. It also states that the NCAA should build policies that stop universities "from cutting scholarships or other opportunities for women's and Olympic sports in order to pay their athletes," per Dan Murphy of ESPN.
ESPN also reported that there are lawyers who work with colleges and athletes from those colleges who told ESPN that the judges would see Trump's order as "unconstitutional and unenforceable if challenged in court. " Trump has already expressed that a lawsuit would be made against his administration during a roundtable in March with leaders in college sports, when he first mentioned his intent to issue an executive order. This roundtable took place at the White House .