Trump EO on College Sports

A lot to unpack with this.

  1. You have enough on your plate, sit this one out.
  2. If all Power Conference Commissioners are on board, then it probably leans heavily against the student athlete.
  3. The 5 year eligibility and 1 transfer is entirely too simple of a formula for a very complicated matter.
  4. If there was any attempt to enforce it all it takes is one student athlete to challenge it and it is held up for years.
  5. It basically mirrors what Tommy Tubberville was pushing for and he is as biased toward the old system as they come.

And the big reason, from the link;

““I’d like to just go exactly back to what we had and ram it through a court if we have to,” Trump said March 6.”
The old way was fucked.
The new way is currently the Wild West and needs to be reformed, but Trump, Congress, and sure as shit the NCAA have zero business being the ones to reform it.

College sports is not much in my wheelhouse and enormously complicated, but what authority does he even have to do anything on it? Not that he cares about pesky things like the constitution and all.

I did do my first bracket this year, with gf’s family. Was in the lead until UConn upset Duke. Which may be just as well, maybe best not to win my first year in the group. And GF went to UConn, so might have been better not to have voted against them.

None, he is pandering.

Yeah, weird thing to pander about. Not my best area of knowledge, but I doubt people are clamoring to go back to the old system, even if they are frustrated with parts of the new.

And, IDK, but I’d rather politicians pander in rambling incoherent monologues we can ignore, rather than in EOs which are supposed to have some legal weight.

Given how he basically eliminated the Department of Education, the federal government shouldn’t play a role.

None that I know. He went to Fordham and Penn, neither real big in college sports. Maybe his bracket didn’t work out. He should have picked Michigan.

So should I. At least, we have that in common.