re: President Donald Trump to sign executive order establishing national NIL standards

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IMO the competitiveness of a popular sport is literally a pimple on the arse of the problems facing this country and the world. But I understand such things are the subject at hand on this board.

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This is obvious, but its something people care very much about so politicians will devote resources to it

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The current bloat of the university system is only possible because of federally-backed student loans. NIL bloat will only add to college expenses because it diverts donor funds from the institutions to individuals.

The value of the programs, and therefore the value of the players with only a handful of exceptions, comes from being tied to the federally funded university system.

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I mean, college football being a big deal kind of predated the expansion of federal student loans into the bloated nightmare that it is today. Sure it increased enrollment and funneled a lot of cash in, but to say it’s why CFB is big business is a bit of a stretch.

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Do you think the feds should have no regulatory oversight over a system they effectively created?

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I feel like this argument kind of eats itself. You’re saying that the federal government made a disaster of the student loan program, which made a disaster of the university system, then they stood by while CFB just went Wild West lawless a couple years ago, and only now do they want to provide guardrails…in the form of an EO from the White House?

If that’s their idea of “regulatory oversight”, then no. No man. Hell no man.

Trump's Totem Pole has quite a few very important things up top....

Tackling the stupid, who cares mess of College sports is digging under the Pole to ignore the actual Pole staring the Nation in the face.

Executive orders aren't law. They merely tell the executive branch how to carry out a law(s).

For example, Trump's "banning" of transgenders individuals from competing in women's sports doesn't ban them at all. It uses Title IX to deny federal funding to educational institutions that allow it. That's not a ban.

An executive order isn't going to regulate NIL with any real teeth.

If only we didn’t have the most incompetent and/or lazy Congress of all time, we’d be able to actually pass laws that had the force of law behind them.

Instead we get fancy signatures and a press conference with the president standing between nick saban, and the Texas tech billionaire footing the bill.

there's probably very little legal weight any executive order can do to help the NIL situation. Hopefully it motivates the stakeholders to actually make meaningful changes.

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I miss the days when conservatives truly believed that more government involvement was generally a bad idea.

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Trump isn't a conservative, and what if I told you they always were for more government, just government they believed in?

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Are you under the impression that the president/government can only focus on one thing at a time?

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I'm under the impression that they can do lots of things at the same time but can't seem to focus on anything for long enough to actually fix things

I may be a cynic in these things, and I generally don't think government fixes end up being a good thing most times.

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Didn’t know you had full access to the daily goings on at the WH lol

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right back at you

I mean. I didn’t really make any claims. You said you think they can’t focus on anything long enough to do anything. So you must have some inside info.