President Donald Trump mulls executive order on college football NIL payments after Nick Saban meeting: report

One of President Donald Trump’s forthcoming executive orders could target NIL payments in college football after he met with former Alabama head coach Nick Saban.

President Trump is considering an executive order “that could increase scrutiny of the explosion in payments to college athletes since 2021,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

That comes after a meeting between the President and Saban at the University of Alabama commencement address in recent days.

Saban, college football’s record-holder seven-time national champion head coach, supports NIL as a concept, but has criticized the way in which the policy has been implemented nationwide.

Saban has referred to the existing NIL model in college football as unsustainable, as it creates a sharply uneven playing field between schools with more resources and those with less.