The latest complication in the ongoing fight over how college athletes should be paid could came straight from the pen of President Donald Trump.
The president is considering an executive order regarding NIL payments after a meeting with former Alabama head coach Nick Saban on Thursday night, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Saban reportedly complained about NIL to Trump, who was in Tuscaloosa to deliver the University of Alabama's commencement address, and said he believed the system has damaged college sports. However, the coach didn't propose eliminating NIL but instead "reforming" it to address an allegedly uneven playing field.