Trump warns college sports are in 'BIG trouble' in cryptic post

President Donald Trump sent a cryptic connection connected Truth Social Saturday, expressing interest for the aboriginal of assemblage sports. 

"College Sports is successful $BIG trouble, conscionable similar I said it would be. A judge, with nary cognition oregon experience, ruled and, alternatively than fighting, the sports reps FOLDED. Can’t bash that," Trump wrote. 

Trump did not place the justice oregon the concern helium was referring to. 

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The station comes precisely six months aft Judge Claudia Wilken approved a colony betwixt the NCAA, its astir almighty conferences and lawyers representing each Division I athletes. The woody means the NCAA volition wage adjacent to $2.8 cardinal successful backmost damages implicit the adjacent 10 years to assemblage athletes who vie from 2016 to 2025. The colony besides allows for assemblage programs to wage athletes nonstop gross shares.

Wilken was appointed by erstwhile President Bill Clinton successful 1993. 

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Former President Donald J. Trump, near congratulates Princeton wrestler Pat Glory, right, aft Glory won the NCAA Wrestling Championship astatine the 125 lb class, Saturday, March 18, 2023, successful Tulsa, Okla.  (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

During a November interrogation connected "The Pat McAfee Show," Trump argued that assemblage programs would soon necessitate immense "NFL-type payrolls" to vie and warned that "bad things are going to hap unless they fig this out."

In July, Trump signed an enforcement bid to acceptable caller restrictions connected payments to assemblage athletes. The "Saving College Sports" enforcement bid prohibits athletes from receiving pay-to-play payments from third-party sources. 

However, the bid does not enforce immoderate restrictions connected NIL payments to assemblage athletes by third-party sources.

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President Donald Trump holds a talented squad autographed hoops astatine a ceremonial honoring the 2019 womenÕs NCAA hoops champion Baylor Lady Bears successful the Oval Office astatine the White House.  (Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports)

It besides demands that schools relationship for preserving resources for the non-revenue sports. 

"The Order provides that immoderate revenue-sharing permitted betwixt universities and collegiate athletes should beryllium implemented successful a mode that protects women’s and non-revenue sports," the bid states. "The Order requires the preservation and, wherever possible, enlargement of opportunities for scholarships and collegiate diversion contention successful women’s and non-revenue sports." 

Earlier this week, a House ballot connected the SCORE Act (Student Compensation and Opportunity done Rights and Endorsements), which would modulate name, image, and likeness deals, was canceled soon earlier it was acceptable to beryllium brought to the floor.

The White House endorsed the enactment connected Tuesday, but 3 Republicans, Byron Donalds (Fla.), Scott Perry (Pa.), and Chip Roy (Texas) voted with Democrats not to bring the enactment to the floor. Democrats person mostly opposed the bill, urging members of the House to ballot "no."

The White House added that the enactment "is a important measurement toward enacting authorities that volition sphere and fortify this instauration that is cardinal to American civilization and success." It did not respond to a petition for remark regarding Wednesday's cancellation.

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