Power 4 college sports conferences react to Trump's latest executive order

The leaders of assemblage sports’ astir almighty conferences rapidly aligned down President Donald Trump’s latest enforcement order.

Commissioners from the Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big 12 each released statements connected societal media Friday evening unanimously thanking Trump for his enforcement action. 

Trump's EO directs national agencies to perchance restrict backing for schools violating new, tighter rules connected subordinate transfers (limited to one) and eligibility (maximum 5 years), portion curbing pay-for-play booster collectives and protecting women's and Olympic sports funding.

The conferences struck a accordant code of appreciation for national involvement, coupled with a renewed telephone for Congress to found nationalist standards governing assemblage athletics, peculiarly with respect to jock compensation, employment presumption and name, representation and likeness (NIL) rules.

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Big 10 Commissioner Tony Petitti wrote, "The Big Ten Conference would similar to convey President Trump for his enactment and continuing efforts to support assemblage athletics and joins him successful urging Congress to rapidly walk authorities addressing the captious issues undermining its semipermanent stability.

"Consistent with President Trump’s enforcement order, the bipartisan SCORE Act thoughtfully addresses name, image, and likeness for student-athletes, protecting world and diversion opportunities provided done women’s and Olympic sports programs, and expands resources to enactment student-athletes connected and disconnected the field.

"We volition proceed to enactment with a wide conjugation of assemblage sports stakeholders and members of Congress to enact this legislation."

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey wrote, "The constitution and enforcement of accordant nationalist standards for assemblage athletics remains a apical priority, and President Trump’s enforcement bid provides important clarity to assistance guarantee each programs run nether comparable policies.

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"We are grateful for the President’s enactment and the continued, bipartisan engagement of members of the House and Senate connected these cardinal issues.

"We enactment House of Representatives support of the SCORE Act and meaningful Senate information of akin authorities to sphere world accidental for student-athletes and the semipermanent aboriginal of assemblage sports."

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark wrote, "Federal enactment is indispensable to support the aboriginal of assemblage athletics, and connected behalf of the Big 12, we admit President Trump’s committedness to advancing a solution. To physique connected this momentum and supply semipermanent clarity and stability, Congress indispensable present act.

"The bipartisan SCORE Act offers a broad model for galore of the issues facing our industry, and I look guardant to proceed moving with President Trump and Congress to enact meaningful reforms."

ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips wrote, "We profoundly convey President Trump and his administration’s ongoing committedness to protecting assemblage athletics by issuing today’s enforcement order. Following the White House’s assemblage sports roundtable, determination continues to beryllium important momentum to sphere the diversion and world opportunities for the adjacent procreation of student-athletes, and we admit the efforts.

"We stay optimistic that the SCORE Act, which would supply stableness to assemblage sports, volition walk the House of Representatives successful the adjacent future."

The enforcement bid "directs Federal agencies to bolster the effectiveness of cardinal assemblage sports rules connected transferring, eligibility, and pay-for-play by evaluating whether violations of specified rules render a assemblage unfit for Federal grants and contracts."

It besides says that a "five-year information window" volition beryllium enforced, on with "structured transportation rules" and a "banning (of) improper fiscal arrangements including pay-for-play agreements facilitated by collectives and akin entities."

Trump's enforcement bid comes astir a period aft helium hosted a roundtable addressing respective hot-button issues with notable sports figures and officials.

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The SCORE Act was astatine the forefront of the roundtable. It was scheduled to beryllium voted connected successful December, but the ballot was canceled soon earlier it was to instrumentality place.

The White House endorsed the act, but 3 Republicans — Byron Donalds of Florida, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Chip Roy of Texas — voted with Democrats not to bring the enactment to the floor. Democrats person mostly opposed the bill, urging members of the House to ballot against it.

The enactment would springiness the NCAA a constricted antitrust exemption successful hopes of protecting the NCAA from imaginable lawsuits implicit eligibility rules and would prohibit athletes from becoming employees of their schools. It prohibits schools from utilizing pupil fees to money NIL payments.

The president's bid from July prohibits athletes from receiving pay-to-play payments from third-party sources. However, the bid did not enforce immoderate restrictions connected NIL payments to assemblage athletes by third-party sources. It besides demands that schools relationship for preserving resources for the non-revenue sports.

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President Donald Trump signs an enforcement bid during the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy presumption with the Navy Midshipmen shot squad successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, D.C., March 20, 2026. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

A period earlier Trump's order, a justice approved a colony betwixt the NCAA, its astir almighty conferences and lawyers representing each Division I athletes. The woody means the NCAA volition wage adjacent to $2.8 cardinal successful backmost damages implicit the adjacent 10 years to assemblage athletes who competed from 2016 to 2025. The colony besides allows assemblage programs to wage athletes directly.

Fox News Digital's Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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