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NCAA President Charlie Baker said Monday he was "up for anything" when asked about reports that President Donald Trump is set to create a commission on college sports.
The presidential commission would tackle issues the college sports landscape faces with former Alabama Crimson Tide football coach Nick Saban and billionaire Cody Campbell leading it, Yahoo Sports reported last week.
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"I think the fact that there's an interest on the executive side on this, I think it speaks to the fact that everybody is paying a lot of attention right now to what's going on in college sports," Baker said, via the Raleigh News & Observer. โThere is a lot going on, thatโs not all bad, and Iโm up for anything that helps us get somewhere.โ
Commissioners of the top conferences in the NCAA have already asked Congress to step in to help the NCAA regulate name, image and likeness (NIL) and the transfer portal.
Greg Sankey, Jim Phillips, Tony Petitti and Brett Yormark were on Capitol Hill last month. Yormark, the Big 12 commissioner, bluntly admitted to Bret Baier on โSpecial Report,โ โWe need help from Congress.โ
"From where I sit today, federal preemption, having a standardized platform that oversees and governs NIL is critically important," Yormark said. โToday, 34 states see it very differently, and itโs relatively unruly.โ
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"The volume of laws that are being passed on a state level are making it really difficult for us to regulate and compete nationally," Petitti added. "Every single time someone doesnโt like a ruling, or something comes from the NCAA, we end up in litigation. Those rules then get aggregated, and weโre back to the start.
"Weโre hopeful that the combination of what weโve done in the settlement will give us an opportunity, with some help from Congress, to really put a system in a place that has some stability.
"Weโve crossed the bridge of being willing to provide revenue โฆ but we need to have some structure. We canโt have a system that has complete unregulated movement."
It is unclear when the commission would be finalized.
The NCAA and collegiate athletes have waited for the $2.8 billion House settlement to be approved. It will allow schools to share revenue with athletes directly for the use of their NIL.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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