President Donald Trump and his administration are considering an executive order aimed at increasing ‘scrutiny of the explosion in payments to college athletes,’ per the Wall Street Journal.
Trump reportedly met with Nick Saban Thursday when he was in Tuscaloosa for his commencement speech at the 2025 spring graduating commencement for the University of Alabama.
The Wall Street Journal reports Saban talked about NIL deals with Trump during their meeting, and the former Alabama head football coach shared he felt it damaged college athletics.
Saban has been outspoken about his thoughts on name, image and likeness and the impact it has had on college athletics.
“All the things that I believed in for all these years, 50 years of coaching, no longer exist in college athletics,” Saban previously said at a roundtable in Washington D.C. “It was always about developing players. It was always about helping people be more successful in life.”
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