Nick Saban weighs in on President Donald Trump's executive order for college sports
Questions regarding the regulation of Name, Image, and Likeness, transfer portal, and the split of resources between sports, have been a hot topic surrounding college athletics over recent years, which has sparked the debate of whether or not college athletics have turned into a professional model rather than an amateur one.
This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will "protect student-athletes and collegiate athletic scholarships and opportunities, including in Olympic and non-revenue programs, and the unique American institution of college sports." In the fact sheet released by The White House, the executive order aims to expand scholarship opportunities for women's sports and non-revenue sports, prohibits third-party pay-for-play payments, and to preserve non-revenue sports and the irreplaceable educational and developmental opportunities that college sports provide.
After the executive order was signed and released, former Alabama head coach Nick Saban shared his opinion on the matter on the show Fox and Friends on FOX News, where he said that Trump's order aligns with what he thinks college sports should be, which promotes an educational model for student-athletes during their time as a student, as well as their time as a college graduate.
"The executive order provides 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 non-revenue, so that they can have development as people, students and develop careers and develop professionally if that's what they choose to do."
Saban also mentioned that this order will soon answer the question of a university wanting to promote and educational model compared to a professional one.
The topic of revenue sharing has made its way to Auburn, as head football coach Hugh Freeze and athletic director John Cohen have publicly stated that they are eager to learn more information about the new model and how it affects recruiting. Auburn football has seen a dip in recruiting, which Freeze and Cohen feel is the result of the uncertainty of the penalties established with breaking rules.
"We at Auburn are going to take that very seriously. But we're still going to win recruiting battles. We're going to do it the right way," Cohen said earlier this month. "I can't speak for the rest of the recruiting world, but I can tell you this, Auburn is going to do it the right way."
The new order will present new opportunities for collegiate athletes everywhere, and it will be interesting to see how it affects Auburn athletes in the future.
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