Overview

• Executive Order 14322 tasks the Education Department, Attorney General, HHS and FTC with crafting a regulatory, enforcement and litigation plan within 30 days to stabilize NCAA Division I athletics
• Within 60 days the Labor Department and NLRB must define student-athlete employment status while the Justice Department and FTC revise antitrust positions to protect governing rules
• Agencies have initiated interagency consultations and rule-writing to unify NIL compensation, prohibit booster-driven pay-for-play and uphold gender equity requirements
• Legal analysts warn that the order binds only federal bodies, creates no private enforceable rights and faces likely judicial challenges that could limit its reach
• Congress is considering the bipartisan SCORE Act to grant explicit antitrust exemptions and shape the future framework beyond the administration’s directives