NCAA prez is open to Trump's idea of commission

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. -- NCAA president Charlie Baker said Monday helium was "up for anything" erstwhile asked astir a President Trump-proposed committee connected collegiate athletics.

Reports surfaced past week that President Trump was going to make the commission.

While his conversations astatine ACC meetings with league shot coaches, men's and women's hoops coaches, diversion directors and different schoolhouse officials focused connected governance and the pending House settlement, Baker was asked during an informal property availability for his thoughts connected the statesmanlike commission.

"I deliberation the information that there's an involvement connected the enforcement broadside connected this, I deliberation it speaks to the information that everybody is paying a batch of attraction close present to what's going connected successful assemblage sports," Baker said.

"I'm up for thing that tin assistance america get somewhere."

Baker noted the NCAA has already spent clip successful Washington asking for Congressional help, focused connected 3 large issues. Among the biggest: A patchwork of authorities laws that subordinate to however collegiate athletics works successful idiosyncratic states; and whether student-athletes should beryllium considered employees.

Baker said, "People successful our bureau person talked to folks who are moving connected this, but I don't deliberation they've decided the model astir who they privation to enactment on."

When asked whether helium felt the instauration of a committee would heighten the NCAA's chances astatine legislative relief, Baker said, "I don't person a crystal shot connected that one. I don't know. I bash think, though, that it's rather wide astatine this constituent that determination are a batch of radical funny successful assemblage sports, and we bash request immoderate assistance astatine immoderate constituent to make immoderate clarity astir immoderate of these issues successful Washington. Creating clarity 1 suit astatine a clip is conscionable a truly atrocious mode to effort to determination forward."