"President Donald Trump's administration rescinded Title IX guidance put forth by former President Joe Biden that would have resulted in significant changes to Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) in college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.
This guidance put the revenue-sharing plans of several major college football powers in jeopardy. Schools like Ohio State, that had one of the sport's most expensive rosters this past season en route to a national championship, planned to push most revenue-sharing funds towards its football program. The Buckeyes, of course, are not alone. Other perennial national powers were planning a similar approach in order to acquire and retain the sport's best players.
The Trump administration has rescinded that guidance, which will now allow athletic departments to follow the plans of pushing revenue to the sports where they see the most value added.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..."