NCAA president 'up for anything' amid rumors of Trump creating commission on college sports

NCAA President Charlie Baker said Monday helium was "up for anything" erstwhile asked astir reports that President Donald Trump is acceptable to make a committee connected assemblage sports.

The statesmanlike committee would tackle issues the assemblage sports scenery faces with erstwhile Alabama Crimson Tide shot manager Nick Saban and billionaire Cody Campbell starring it, Yahoo Sports reported past week.

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Then-former President Donald Trump prepares to propulsion a shot to the assemblage during a sojourn to the Alpha Gamma Rho, an cultivation fraternity, astatine Iowa State University earlier an NCAA assemblage shot crippled betwixt Iowa State and Iowa connected Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023 successful Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

"I deliberation the information that there's an involvement connected the enforcement broadside connected this, I deliberation it speaks to the information that everybody is paying a batch of attraction close present to what's going connected successful assemblage sports," Baker said, via the Raleigh News & Observer. "There is simply a batch going on, that’s not each bad, and I’m up for thing that helps america get somewhere."

Commissioners of the apical conferences successful the NCAA person already asked Congress to measurement successful to assistance the NCAA modulate name, representation and likeness (NIL) and the transportation portal.

Greg Sankey, Jim Phillips, Tony Petitti and Brett Yormark were connected Capitol Hill past month. Yormark, the Big 12 commissioner, bluntly admitted to Bret Baier connected "Special Report," "We request assistance from Congress."

"From wherever I beryllium today, national preemption, having a standardized level that oversees and governs NIL is critically important," Yormark said. "Today, 34 states spot it precise differently, and it’s comparatively unruly."

NCAA President Charlie Baker speaks during the organization's Division I Business Session astatine their yearly normal connected Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 successful Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/George Walker IV,File)

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"The measurement of laws that are being passed connected a authorities level are making it truly hard for america to modulate and vie nationally," Petitti added. "Every azygous clip idiosyncratic doesn’t similar a ruling, oregon thing comes from the NCAA, we extremity up successful litigation. Those rules past get aggregated, and we’re backmost to the start.

"We’re hopeful that the operation of what we’ve done successful the colony volition springiness america an opportunity, with immoderate assistance from Congress, to truly enactment a strategy successful a spot that has immoderate stability.

"We’ve crossed the span of being consenting to supply gross … but we request to person immoderate structure. We can’t person a strategy that has implicit unregulated movement."

It is unclear erstwhile the committee would beryllium finalized.

President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with legendary Alabama shot manager Nick Saban earlier delivering a peculiar commencement code to University of Alabama graduates astatine Coleman Coliseum. (Gary Cosby Jr.-Tuscaloosa News)

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The NCAA and collegiate athletes person waited for the $2.8 cardinal House colony to beryllium approved. It volition let schools to stock gross with athletes straight for the usage of their NIL.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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