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Former Alabama -Head football coach Nick Saban gave Kudos to President Donald Trump to sign a executive order that set new restrictions on college payments on Thursday.
The order prohibits athletes from receiving payment-to-play payments from third-party sources. The order, however, does not impose any restrictions on Nil payments To college athletes from third-party sources.
“I think President Trump’s executive order is taking a big step in giving the education model, which is what we have always tried to promote to create opportunities for players, male and female, revenue and non-income so that they can have development as people, students and develop careers and develop professionally if that’s what they choose to do,” Saban said “Fox & Fox & Friends” on Friday.
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President Donald Trump shakes his hands with legendary Alabama football coach Nick Saban before delivering a special commencement address to the University of Alabama candidates at Coleman Coliseum. Graduation occurs this weekend. (Gary Cosby Jr.-Tuscaloosa News)
“I think we kind of need to make a decision here in terms of making us want an educational -based model that I think the president made a big step toward doing it, or will we have universities sponsoring professional teams? And I think most people would choose the former.”
The order states that “any division of income allowed between universities and collegial athletes must be implemented in a way that protects women’s and non-income sports.”
“The order requires conservation and, where possible, expanding opportunities for scholarships and college athletic competition in women’s and non-income sports.”
No clear guidelines on how these sports would be explained were given in the initial message. However, Saban seemed convinced that college sports are safe.
President Donald Trump makes up with Alabama Crimson Tide -Head coach Nick Saban and members of Crimson Tide Ceremony honor for college -football -final game champion Crimson Tide at South Lawn in the White House on April 10, 2018. (Geoff Burke-usa Today Sports)
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“I think the Clearing House is there to authenticate name, image and equality. In other words, your marketing value is compared to what you get paid to make a marketing opportunity? When you cross that line, it’s when it becomes pay for games,” he said. “So you have collectives that collect money that pay players and they really don’t perform a relatively marketing job to make this money, and this is where this whole thing has become a bit sideways. I think this whole clearing house is there to protect the collective that affects competitive balance in college sports.”
“I am for keeping all the sports that we have as many as we can have, but there are financial concerns about how many sports you can promote that do not make revenue,” Saban added. “I think one of the things people need to understand about college sports, they say it’s a business, but it’s really not a business. It’s revenue-producing, and two sports have created the revenue to have 20 other sports. And I think that’s why it’s important that we have a system in place, I think President Trump has done the first step to protect the opportunity.”
File -President Donald Trump moves like Alabama Crimson Tide -Head coach Nick Saban (L) smiles at a ceremony honored college -Fodbold -Playoff -Master Crimson Tide at South Lawn in the White House on April 10, 2018. (Geoff Burke-usa Today Sports)
Saban and Trump met back in May to discuss the current state of college -athletes and zero offers. Saban retired in 2024, largely because of the new culture.
