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The name, image and resemblance storm university sports, and this could take the government to slow it down.
After meeting the Alabama head coach on Thursday, Nick Saban, President Donald Trump would have considered a decree to regulate zero transactions in university athletics.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Saban told Trump that the influx of money harmed university sports. Saban does not want to stop zero payments but wants them to be “reformed”.
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President Donald Trump shakes hands with the legendary Alabama football coach, Nick Saban, before delivering an opening speech to graduates from the University of Alabama to the Coleman Coliseum. (Gary Cosby Jr./tuscaloosa News)
In an appearance on PK Press Club Channel last year, Saban urged the congress to intervene and to do null “equal to all levels”.
“And I think it should always exist for all players, but not only a payment system as we now have where the one who collects the most money in their collective can pay the most for players, which is not a fair playground. I think in any place of competition, you want to have guidelines that give everyone an equal opportunity to have a chance to succeed,” he said.
Saban said the NCAA “can manage” And whatever the necessary changes, but the congress “must” add “national legislation”.
President Donald Trump pronounces remarks to students graduate of the Coleman Coliseum at the University of Alabama on May 1, 2025, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
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“Now we simply have state legislation – and each state is different – which would protect the NCAA against disputes once we have established guidelines for the future of university athletics. But the dispute has brought us to this point,” said Saban. “We must have some protection against disputes. I don’t know if they are antitrust laws or something else.
“I am not paid enough on all this to really make a recommendation. But I know that we need a kind of federal standard and directives that allows people to enforce their own rules.”
The NCAA adopted the rules last week by which the colleges would be authorized to pay athletes following a trial settlement of several billion dollars which is expected to come into force this summer.
Earlier this week, Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Said “if someone” can help Nile regulate, “it’s President Trump”.
Donald J. Trump, Nominé Républicain as president, Waves To The Crowd as he speaks with the Republican Senator Katie Britt, R-Ala., At the Bryant-Denny stadium for a football match between Alabama Crimson Tide and Georgia Bulldogs in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, September 28, 2024. (Gary Cosby Jr./imagn Images)
Saban presented Trump on Thursday at an event for Alabama graduate students, where Trump delivered a speech.
In the speech, Trump has dismissed on Alabama’s sports programs, saying that school is a place “where legends are made”.
