{"id":40537,"date":"2026-04-04T03:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40537"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:10:17","slug":"trump-signs-executive-order-limiting-the-years-of-eligibility-number-of-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40537","title":{"rendered":"Trump Signs Executive Order Limiting the Years of Eligibility, Number of Transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Trump has signed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/04\/urgent-national-action-to-save-college-sports\/\">executive order<\/a> (EO) intended to reform and structure college sports, primarily by limiting the number of years a player is eligible and the number of transfers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">\u201cThe order states college athletes can play a maximum of five seasons during a five-year window and allows them to transfer schools only once before they graduate without having to sit out a season,\u201d ESPN reports. \u201cA school that plays an athlete who doesn\u2019t meet these new limits could risk losing its federal funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2040184913580654599\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RossDellenger\/status\/2040184913580654599\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Serious legal obstacles could prevent the order\u2019s implementation. Trump hinted at as much during his roundtable with former college coaches and administrators last month.<\/p>\n<p>Chiefly, the question is whether any parts of the order would be enforceable. Multiple legal experts have opined that\u00a0judges would find the president\u2019s order unconstitutional and\/or unenforceable if it were challenged in court, as it most certainly will be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">While the president\u2019s threat to use the power of the purse by withholding funds from institutions that don\u2019t comply is real, a recent decision by a federal judge prevented the Trump administration from withholding funds from Harvard University over that institution\u2019s antisemitic behavior.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<p>The college sports landscape has shifted in recent years in ways that few could have imagined.<\/p>\n<p>It is no longer uncommon to find athletes seeking a sixth or even seventh year of eligibility, as name, image, and likeness (NIL) earnings have made staying in school far more attractive. Nor is it uncommon to find players who have transferred as many as three or four times in their collegiate careers.<\/p>\n<p>The president has multiple times indicated his willingness to help solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p>One of the president\u2019s key initiatives is to eliminate unfair NIL practices, such as organizations created by boosters or other university-affiliated parties that pay players above the market NIL value. The order also prohibits \u201ccollectives,\u201d which make direct payments to players regardless of whether they have NIL value.<\/p>\n<p>The EO also\u00a0implements revenue-sharing that \u201cpreserves or expands scholarships\u201d in women\u2019s and Olympic sports and prohibits the use of federal funds for NIL\/revenue sharing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Senate, Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Maria Cantwell are actively negotiating in hopes of producing a bipartisan bill this spring, according to sources on Capitol Hill,\u201d ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/story\/_\/id\/48387866\/executive-order-limits-ncaa-athletes-five-years-one-transfer\">reports<\/a>. \u201cCruz told ESPN earlier this year it was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/story\/_\/id\/47765833\/ted-cruz-college-athletes-ncaa-employees-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">absolutely critical<\/a>\u201d that new legislation include language that would prevent college athletes from being deemed employees of their school. Several Democrats believe employment and collective bargaining is the best route to finding a sustainable future for college sports. Sources said the employment debate remains one of the largest obstacles to reaching a compromise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s executive order does not address employment or other major unresolved issues in college sports, such as a push from Cantwell to reshape how schools share the revenue from their television contracts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2026\/04\/03\/trump-signs-executive-order-limiting-the-years-of-eligibility-number-of-transfers\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has signed an executive order (EO) intended to reform and structure college sports, primarily by limiting the number of years a player is eligible&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}