Retired Alabama football coach Nick Saban voiced support for the executive order President Donald Trump signed Thursday titled “saving college sports.”
“President Trump’s executive order takes a huge step in providing the educational model that has always been what we’ve sort of tried to promote to create opportunities for players, male and female alike, revenue and nonrevenue, 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 Friday while appearing on Fox News.
Trump released the executive order amid a turbulent time in college athletics. The House settlement went into effect July 1 to attempt to provide a path forward with revenue sharing, but plenty remains unanswered to where many in the sport have argued the importance of congressional action and help from Washington.
