The Department of Education rescinded Title IX guidance issued by the Biden administration that would have required schools to proportionally distribute revenue-sharing payments from NIL deals to men and women athletes. The Trump administration argues that Title IX does not address how revenue should be allocated and that the Biden guidance was overly burdensome.
President Donald Trump's administration rescinded Title IX guidance put forth by former President Joe Biden that would have resulted in significant changes to Name, Image and Likeness in college athletics, the Department of Education announced on Wednesday.
In former President Biden's final days in office, the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights issued guidance related to Title IX that stated that revenue-sharing payments from schools to athletes must be "proportionately" distributed to men and women athletes. If the revenue-sharing payments did not get distributed equally between men's and women's sports, schools would be in violation of Title IX.in jeopardy.
The Trump administration has rescinded that guidance, which will now allow athletic departments to follow the plans of pushing revenue to the sports where they see the most value added. In most cases that will be college football, but in other cases, that will be men's college basketball. "The NIL guidance, rammed through by the Biden Administration in its final days, is overly burdensome, profoundly unfair, and it goes well beyond what agency guidance is intended to achieve. Without a credible legal justification, the Biden Administration claimed that NIL agreements between schools and student athletes are akin to financial aid and must, therefore, be proportionately distributed between male and female athletes under Title IX.
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