President Trump on Thursday waded into the debate on payment for college athletes with an executive order that prohibits “pay-for-play” arrangements.

Trump signed an order that bans third-party payments to college athletes, though not compensation they can get for deals such as brand endorsements.

The order also directs the secretary of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board to protect nonrevenue sports, and it instructs the attorney general and the Federal Trade Commission to take “appropriate actions to protect student-athletes’ rights and safeguard the long-term stability of college athletics from endless, debilitating antitrust and other legal challenges.”

The college sports landscape has been drastically altered in recent years as schools spend millions of dollars on players

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