President Joe Biden met with former college football gamers and advocates Wednesday at the White House to discuss the rights and protection of college athletes. Biden met with a star-studded crew of former gamers which integrated Andrew Luck, Desmond Howard, Ryan Clark, Rod Gilmore, Keith Marshall and Jordan Meachum.Â
A commentary from the White House mentioned Biden attended the assembly to “hear about why college football players – and all student-athletes – deserve consistent safety standards, a voice, and to benefit from the revenue they produce.”
Biden gave the crew a excursion of the Oval Office and cupboard room and listened to their collective ideas on gamers rights — together with on the subject of Name, Image and Likeness. NIL has been a scorching subject since the NCAA authorized a coverage that permits college athletes to monetize their names, photographs and likenesses in the Summer of 2021.Â
“We didn’t talk about the policies in particular,” Clark told The Athletic. “I feel this dialog was once to see what insurance policies may also be enacted. It was once to see how to have the dialog with the NCAA. It was once how to have the dialog with those that need to constitute the student-athletes and what insurance policies might be enforced. And to be truthful it wasn’t a couple of coverage that would simplest lend a hand student-athletes. We need it to be really helpful to the NCAA. Want it to be truthful. We need it to be equitable in some way that it may be equitable.
Last month, Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick advocated for the NCAA to jointly discount with athletes after attesting on Capitol Hill. Swarbrick clarified that he was once in opposition to gamers being categorized as college workers. He instructed giving athletes a different standing that might deal with their positions as full-time scholars at a school, however nonetheless permit them to unionize and jointly discount with a bigger entity.