AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — NCAA president Charlie Baker stated Monday he was “up for something” when requested a few President Trump-proposed fee on collegiate athletics.
Studies surfaced final week that President Trump was going to create the fee.
Whereas his conversations at ACC conferences with league soccer coaches, males’s and ladies’s basketball coaches, athletic administrators and different faculty officers targeted on governance and the pending Home settlement, Baker was requested throughout a casual press availability for his ideas on the presidential fee.
“I believe the truth that there’s an curiosity on the chief aspect on this, I believe it speaks to the truth that all people is paying quite a lot of consideration proper now to what is going on on in faculty sports activities,” Baker stated.
“I am up for something that may assist us get someplace.”
Baker famous the NCAA has already hung out in Washington asking for Congressional assist, targeted on three massive points. Among the many largest: A patchwork of state legal guidelines that relate to how collegiate athletics work in particular person states; and whether or not student-athletes must be thought of staff.
“I believe they can assist us. I actually do,” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips stated throughout an interview with ACC Community. “We now have been very daring within the need for a nationwide customary with regards to title, picture and likeness. We have to ensure that we’ve got one thing that comes out of Washington that connects all 50 of the states as a result of we have had a piecemeal mission and it is actually undermined faculty sports activities. It has been a race to the underside. In order that’s one. Two is we want some authorized safety. We can’t maintain one authorized case after one other authorized case after one other authorized case. A reaffirmation that these are student-athletes. These three issues to me can be crucial to see if that may come out of the fee.”
Baker stated, “Folks in our workplace have talked to of us who’re engaged on this, however I do not suppose they’ve determined the framework round who they need to placed on.”
When requested whether or not he felt the creation of a fee would improve the NCAA’s possibilities at legislative reduction, Baker stated, “I haven’t got a crystal ball on that one. I do not know. I do suppose, although, that it is fairly clear at this level that there are lots of people concerned with faculty sports activities, and we do want some assist sooner or later to create some readability round a few of these points in Washington. Creating readability one lawsuit at a time is only a actually unhealthy technique to attempt to transfer ahead.”