Trump to sign executive order to expand NCAA's control over college sports

President Trump is expected to motion an enforcement bid arsenic soon arsenic Friday regarding National Collegiate Athletic Association power implicit collegiate sports, according to a elder White House official. 

The president's bid aims to summation the NCAA's power implicit assemblage athletes and programs and threatens to reappraisal national authorities grants and contracts for colleges and universities that don't comply with NCAA rules. 

Name, representation and likeness — oregon NIL — rights granted by a tribunal colony mean that Division I student-athletes whitethorn beryllium straight paid by colleges. The president has railed against the caller system, which is costing immoderate schools millions successful payments. The $2.8 cardinal colony was retroactive, truthful colleges are connected the hook for NIL opportunities denied to student-athletes from 2016-2025. 

File: President Trump speaks during an enforcement bid signing successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Tuesday, March 31, 2026. Aaron Schwartz / CNP / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Aaron Schwartz - Pool via CNP

"What they've done is destroyed assemblage sports and destroying colleges due to the fact that colleges can't spend to wage quarterbacks, that ne'er threw a shot before, that a 17 years old, $12 cardinal dollars to play college, due to the fact that each assemblage is going to spell bankrupt.," Trump said successful a speech to the Republican legislature run limb successful March. 

The president has besides publically lamented astir however the caller NIL policies could impact women's sports and the Olympics, noting that galore American Olympians bid astatine U.S. colleges. 

At a college sports roundtable successful aboriginal March, the president besides vowed to constitute a wide enforcement bid to code the contented and expressed anticipation that it would trigger legislature action.

The Trump medication is inactive pushing for legislature enactment to standardize the rules surrounding the name, image, and likeness policy. The SCORE Act – a House of Representatives measure that stalled — would modulate compensation received from NIL and beef up protections for assemblage athletes. 

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