Trump considering executive order to regulate NIL after meeting with Nick Saban: report

Name, representation and likeness is taking assemblage sports by storm, and it mightiness instrumentality the authorities to dilatory it down.

After gathering with Alabama caput manager Nick Saban Thursday, President Donald Trump is reportedly considering an enforcement bid to modulate NIL deals successful assemblage athletics.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Saban told Trump the influx of wealth has wounded assemblage sports. Saban does not privation to halt NIL payments but wants them "reformed."

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with legendary Alabama shot manager Nick Saban earlier delivering a commencement code to University of Alabama graduates astatine Coleman Coliseum. (Gary Cosby Jr./Tuscaloosa News)

In an quality connected Fox News Channel past year, Saban urged Congress to measurement successful and marque NIL "equal crossed the board."

"And I deliberation that should inactive beryllium for each players, but not conscionable a pay-for-play strategy similar we person present wherever whoever raises the astir wealth successful their corporate tin wage the astir for the players, which is not a level playing field. I deliberation successful immoderate competitory venue, you privation to person immoderate guidelines that gives everyone an adjacent accidental to person a accidental to beryllium successful," helium said.

Saban said the NCAA "can handle" NIL and immoderate changes are necessary, but Congress "needs to" adhd "national legislation."

President Donald Trump delivers remarks to graduating students astatine Coleman Coliseum astatine the University of Alabama May 1, 2025, successful Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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"Now, we conscionable person the authorities authorities — and each authorities is antithetic — that would support the NCAA from litigation erstwhile we found guidelines for the aboriginal of assemblage athletics. But the litigation is what got america to this constituent close now," Saban said. "We person to person immoderate extortion from litigation. I don't cognize if it's antitrust laws oregon whatever. 

"I'm not versed capable connected each that to truly marque a recommendation. But I cognize we request immoderate benignant of national modular and guidelines that allows radical to enforce their ain rules."

The NCAA past week passed rules by which colleges would beryllium allowed to wage athletes arsenic a effect of a multibillion-dollar suit colony expected to spell into effect this summer.

Earlier this week, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said "if anyone" tin assistance modulate NIL, "it's President Trump."

Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, waves to the assemblage arsenic helium speaks with Republican Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., astatine Bryant-Denny Stadium for a shot crippled betwixt the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs successful Tuscaloosa, Ala., Sept. 28, 2024. (Gary Cosby Jr./Imagn Images)

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Saban introduced Trump Thursday astatine an lawsuit for Alabama's graduating students, wherever Trump gave a speech.

In the speech, Trump raved astir Alabama's diversion programs, saying the schoolhouse is simply a spot "where legends are made."

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