Trump EO would do a lot for college sports, but for how long? | Goodbread

As fall camps crank up all over college football this August, NCAA attorneys will be doing the same. Just as pads start popping and anticipation begins building for opening matchups like Clemson-LSU and Notre Dame-Wisconsin, the matchup that will matter more will come between President Donald Trump's recent executive order regulating college sports and the lawsuits that will challenge it. The EO takes effect on Aug.

1, and calls for the NCAA to revamp its rulebook in accordance by then. That gives the NCAA a little less than four months to convene the necessary committees, craft new legislation, and cross its fingers for a favorable judge when the tsunami of injunction requests follows. GOODBREAD: Alabama football running game improving by inches, for now SPRING LINEUP: Predicting Alabama football depth chart after second spring scrimmage The most impactful change of all would bring back the old NCAA rule mandating a one-year sit-out for transfers, with an exception for an athlete's first transfer, which would come with immediate eligibility.

It also regulates NIL compensation, the participation window (five years), and protects scholarships in Olympic and women's sports. All that reform has merit. All of it makes sense.

Until Aug. 1, however, the transfer-whenever freedom athletes have enjoyed in recent years will remain in place. NCAA President Charlie Baker, of course, went to the Final Four in Indianapolis on Friday and used the platform to say a lot of gobbledygook in support of it.