President Trump reportedly considers executing orders after meeting with Nick Saban
The latest complications in the ongoing struggle about how to pay may be President Donald Trump’s pen.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the president is considering an executive order on zero payments after meeting with former Alabama chief football coach Nick Saban.
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Saban reportedly complained to Trump that he posted the opening address of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and said he believed the system had damaged college sports. But the coach did not propose to eliminate Zero, but instead “reform” it to solve a purported unbalanced playing field.
Trump reportedly said he agreed with Saban's consent and considered drafting an executive order directing his assistants to start studying what the order would say.
R-Ala. Senator Tommy Tuberville helped hold the meeting, hoping that this might be the first step to change zero, as he said Wednesday:
“Hopefully we can sit down with Coach Saban. President Trump wants to help Sub-Zero. I don't know how he does this with executive orders. But we can probably sit down and talk about Coach Saban's view on this, what I think about it, we can come up with some consensus because it's on the tail now, because it's on the tail.”
What does President Trump's executive order mean for Neil?
If Trump follows, executive orders could subvert legal battles involving the NCAA and governments at all levels. The NCAA has restrictions on student-athletes’ income and has been regularly transferred in court over the past five years, a process that is still underway.
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Modern College Football Landscape now has athletes who can transfer immediately and make millions of dollars from boosters. This landscape may soon change as house settlements will pay for athletes’ doors directly for schools, which is clearing its ultimate legal barriers.
Since the executive order was not even drafted, it was impossible to tell how the NCAA, its schools and legal system responded. The White House won’t formally oversee college track and field, so executive orders usually reduce weight, but Trump’s instructions either limit no zero payments or reduce their weight, so there are at least a few reasons to draw attention.
Much of the changes in college track and field over the past five years have been built on decisions from the Supreme Court and other major courts and attempts to reverse any attempt that would further escalate Trump's attempt to subvert the authority of the U.S. court.
The Trump administration is also not shy to threaten that if they do not comply with their aspirations, most notably their restrictions on diversity programs and trans policies.
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Nick Saban
It is not surprising that Trump and Tuberville found the famous anti-Neil voice in Saban.
Even by college football coaching standards, Saban has been disapproving of withering in Alabama's system for the last few years, even though he denied that it was the reason for his retirement. He called for federal legislation to resolve the matter in 2022, and many comments of that year begged for change.
This prospect left Saban in a dispute with Jimbo Fisher of the then-Texas A&M head coach and at the then-Jackson State University Deion Sanders.
