Amelia Island, Florida-the president of the NCAA, Charlie Baker, said Monday that she was “prepared for anything” when asked about a commission proposed by President Donald Trump on university athletics.
The reports arose last week that Trump was going to create the commission.
While their conversations at ACO meetings with league soccer coaches, male and female basketball coaches, athletics directors and other school officials focused on the government and the settlement of the slope house, Baker was asked during an informal availability of the media for their thoughts about the Presidential Commission.
“I think that the fact that there is an interest in the executive side in this, I think he speaks of the fact that everyone is paying close attention at this time to what is happening in university sports,” Baker said.
“I am willing anything that can help us get somewhere.”
Baker said the NCAA has already spent time in Washington asking for help from Congress that focuses on three big problems. Among the largest: a mosaic of state laws that relate to how university athletics in individual states works; and if athletes should be considered employees.
“Believe [Congress] It can help us. I really do it, “said the Commissioner of ACC, Jim Phillips, during an interview with ACC Network.” We have been very bold in the desire of a national standard when it comes to naming, image and likeness. We need to make sure we have something that comes out of Washington that connects the 50 states because we have had a fragmentary project and the university sports is really undermined. It has been a race towards the bottom. So that's one. Two is that we need some legal protection. We cannot sustain a legal case after another legal case after another legal case. A reaffirmation that these are athletes students. Those three things for me will be very important to see if that can leave the commission. “
Baker said: “People in our office have talked to people who are working on this, but I don't think they have decided the framework of who they want to put.”
When asked if he felt that the creation of a commission would improve the possibilities of the NCAA in legislative relief, Baker said: “I do not have a glass ball in that.
