Overview
- Speaking in the Oval Office while honoring the 1980 U.S. men’s hockey team, the president condemned NIL and the transfer landscape as unsustainable.
- He warned that colleges are cutting nonrevenue sports that serve as Olympic training pipelines as more resources flow to football.
- Trump cited escalating payments, referencing multimillion-dollar offers for recruits, and said such spending could wipe out colleges.
- He said he is willing to put the federal government behind a fix and floated a salary-cap-style approach, though no specific policy or new legislation has been announced.
- Context from recent reporting notes the House v. NCAA settlement enabling up to $20.5 million per year in athlete payments and the University of Utah’s new private-equity partnership to bolster athletics revenue.