{"id":797948,"date":"2026-03-07T07:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/797948\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:47:16","slug":"trump-wants-return-to-pre-nil-era-in-ncaa-sports-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/797948\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants return to pre-NIL era in NCAA sports roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump wishes college sports could return<\/a> to the days before the NCAA\u2019s name, image and likeness overhaul.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump on Friday hosted a roundtable with roughly 50 people across sports, business and politics, during which he urged leaders to return to the pre-NIL era and told the room he would like to \u201cgo back to the old system.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to go exactly back to what we had and ram it through a court,\u201d Trump said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion on college sports in the East Room of the White House, Friday, March 6, 2026, in Washington. AP<\/p>\n

Trump added that he plans to implement an executive order \u2014 and issue it within the next week \u2014 which would reinstate the policies before the Supreme Court\u2019s landmark NIL ruling back in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The president admitted that he expects legal challenges regarding the order and said he hopes to find judges that will rule differently than the initial ruling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI will have an executive order within one week, and it will be very all-encompassing,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re going to put it forward, and we\u2019re going to get sued, and we\u2019re going to see how it plays, OK, but I\u2019ll have an executive order, which will solve every problem in this room, every conceivable problem, within one week, and we\u2019ll put it forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will get sued. That\u2019s the only thing I know for sure.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump also demanded that lawmakers continue negotiations for federal legislation to be implemented that could provide some guidelines in the NIL space.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the roundtable, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that his chamber has the votes necessary to pass the SCORE Act, which would prevent NCAA athletes from being considered employees and give the organization and its conferences their antitrust protection to enforce rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NCAAA NCAA logo flag at the Hall of Champions at the NCAA National Office. Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The bill would require bipartisan support in the Senate, however, where it would need a 60-vote margin in order to pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Many who spoke at the meeting were in agreement that college sports needs some form of governance, with legendary former Alabama football coach Nick Saban saying that there is hardly an emphasis on athletes getting a quality education.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHow much does anybody talk about getting an education anymore?\u201d Saban asked. \u201cNobody talks about it at all, which is the most important thing any of these student-athletes can do in terms of enhancing the future.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua told the room that college sports are approaching the \u201cpoint of no return,\u201d adding that football is taking resources meant to fund Olympic and women\u2019s sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to the roundtable, bipartisanship did unfold in Congress on Friday, with Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) agreeing on a bill to amend the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, permitting college conferences to consolidate and sell their media rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The legislation is expected to be introduced into the Senate next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump wishes college sports could return to the days before the NCAA\u2019s name, image and likeness…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[18234,111981,331,23337,78,7,49,48,8342,8424,4239,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-797948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball-transfer-portal","10":"tag-college-football","11":"tag-college-football-transfer-portal","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-football","16":"tag-nick-saban","17":"tag-nil-rules","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116186792364600915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}