SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua have been scheduled to play golf with President Donald Trump at his course in New Jersey on Sunday as school sports activities leaders proceed to look to the federal authorities for help.
Two folks briefed on the assembly confirmed the president’s plans to The Athletic, talking on situation of anonymity as a result of that they had not been licensed to talk publicly. Yahoo! Sports activities first reported in regards to the golf outing.
Sankey is the longest tenured energy convention commissioner and a longtime coverage shaper on the NCAA and nationwide stage. Bevacqua leads the athletic division of one of the distinguished faculties in school sports activities. The previous tv govt was beforehand the CEO of the PGA of America and has a previous relationship with the president going again to the times earlier than he turned a politician. In 2014, whereas at PGA of America, Bevacqua did a cope with Trump properties to host occasions, together with at Trump Nationwide Golf Membership in Bedminster, N.J.
The assembly comes two days after a federal decide accepted a $2.8 billion antitrust lawsuit settlement that can pave the way in which for faculties and universities to immediately pay their athletes for the primary time. However the guidelines and laws specified by the phrases of the settlement are nonetheless weak to authorized and political assaults.
School sports activities leaders have been lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill for laws to pre-empt myriad state legal guidelines which have created a patchwork of guidelines concerning athlete compensation, deal with athletes’ employment standing and supply some antitrust safety for the NCAA and its conferences.
Now with the settlement of Home v. NCAA in place, lawmakers have a construction to construct upon — if they’ll come to settlement on a invoice.
Trump has indicated he want to assist facilitate a federal resolution for faculty sports activities, probably with an govt order. Plans have been within the works for a presidential fee on school sports activities led by billionaire businessman Cody Campbell, a distinguished Texas Tech booster, and former Alabama coach Nick Saban.
The fee is at present on maintain as lawmakers within the Senate, led by Republican Ted Cruz of Texas and Democrat Cory Booker of New Jersey, work on what they hope will probably be a bipartisan invoice.
One other listening to on school sports activities and the way athletes are compensated for title, picture and likeness is scheduled for later this week within the Home Vitality and Commerce Committee.
(Picture of Pete Bevacqua and Donald Trump in 2014: Mike Stobe / Getty Pictures for PGA of America)
