President Donald Trump apparently hopes that the United States government is directly involved in university football and NCAA affairs.
Trump plans to create a presidential commission on university athletics to regulate the whole industry from a single federal body, according to Yahoo Sports.
The group should include “stakeholders” of college sports, businessmen with “deep” links with university football and “perhaps, even a former coach and administrator”, according to the report.
If this continues, the Commission would investigate the sports landscape of the General College, including the use of the transfer portal, reminder payments to players, the employment status of athletes and even the composition of conferences and their media contracts.
The mention of a former coach naturally suggests that Nick Saban could be involved, especially after being revealed that the former Alabama head coach spoke with President Trump at the school opening address recently.
It was allegedly after this meeting that President Trump entertained the idea of ​​making a decree Regarding the zero payments of university athletes.
Senator Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama republican and a former university football coach, also suggested that President Trump was considering a decree on payments.
This plan was met with anger of Steve Berman, one of the lawyers involved in the huge House vs ncaa case.
“The Saban coach and the Trump's eleventh hours in terms of decrees and other interference are just more useless” Berman said in a statement.
He added: “College athletes put the launch of historical changes and massively benefit from zero transactions. They do not need this interference inserted by a coach seeking only to protect the system which made him tens of millions.”
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