A law firm involved in the historical antitrust case for antitrust case involving NCAA and the country’s five largest conferences, tore former college -football coach Nick Saban and the possibility of an executive order from the Trump administration to deal with name, image and equality.

Attorneys at Hagens Berman Law Firm on Monday released a statement that called Saban’s reported involvement in the potential executive “unnoticed and unhelpful.” Steve Berman, the company’s CEO and co -founder, called Saban and Trump’s conversations “unnecessary.”

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“While he was a coach, Saban originally opposed Nil payments to athletes, and pressed to add restrictions and red-hatred through national law to add” a kind of control, “Berman said in a statement.

“Coach Saban and Trump’s eleventh-hour conversations about executive orders and other interference are just more unnecessary self-involvement. College athletes spearheads with historical changes and benefit to massive of zero-offering.

The company added that there were a number of ways college athletes have benefited from zero without executive orders from the White House in any administration. The company said it empowered athletes to earn their own income among other positive things.

Pakinomist Digital reached out to Saban’s Rep on Comment.

Trump was considering a performing order to regulate the name, image and equality in college sports after meeting with the legendary Alabama Crimson Tide coach, The Wall Street Journal reported last week. Saban reportedly not wanting to stop NIL payments, but seeks to “reform” them.

Donald Trump shakes his hands with former Alabama football coach Nick Saban before delivering a special commencement address to the University of Alabama candidates, May 1, 2025, in Tuscaloosa. (Gary Cosby Jr.-Tuscaloosa News)

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In a performance on Pakinomist Channel last year, the Saban urged Congress to step in and make zero “straight everywhere.”

“And I think it should still exist for all players, but not just a pay-for-play system that we have now that the one who raises the most money in their collective can pay the most for the players, which is not levels on par. I think you in any competitive place, you want some guidelines that give everyone a good opportunity to get a chance to get success,” he said. “

Saban said that NCAA “can handle” zero and no matter what changes are needed, but Congress “has to” add “national law.”

“Now we just have state law – and every state is different – it would protect NCAA from litigation when we set guidelines for the future of college -athletics. But the trial is what got us to this point right now,” Saban said. “We need to have some protection against litigation. I don’t know if it’s antitrustlove or whatever.

“I am not preserved enough on all that to really make a recommendation. But I know that we need some kind of federal standard and guidelines that allow people to enforce their own rules.”

Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Said “If anyone” can help regulate zero, “is President Trump.”

Saban introduced Trump on Thursday at an event for Alabama’s graduate students where Trump gave a speech.

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In the speech, Trump fumbled on Alabama’s athletic programs and said the school is a place “where legends are made.”