According to reports, the plan to create a presidential commission to oversee major issues in college sports has been stopped.
The commission conducted by President Donald Trump was laid under the leadership of former Alabama’s football coach Nick Saban and East-Texas Tech aggressive lineman Kodi Campbell, who is now the chairman of the Texas Tech Board of Regents.
The Commission’s idea gained steam after May 1, when Trump spoke at the graduate ceremony of Alabama University, including a address of Saban. Along with many issues that cloudy college sports landscape – questions of powerful names, image, equality have been included that courts and Congress are trying to respond – the President’s Commission looked like another Avenue to find a solution.
But two weeks after the meeting with Trump in Tuskalosa, Saban appeared in the “The Paul Finbam Show” and claimed that the commission could not be necessary.
“I think many people know what issues are in college football and what really we need to do to fix them,” Saban told Finbam. “I think people are getting the key to the drill together, so we can take it forward. I am not opposing the players to earn money. I don’t want anyone to think so. I think it is the system, the way it is running now, it is not durable and perhaps it is not in the best interest of students-athletes in board or sports.”
Probably, putting the President’s Commission on the back burner shows that other legislative routes are building headways. According to the athletic, a bilateral Congress group led by Sen Ted Cruise of Texas has dedicated “hundreds of hours” to solve the college game.
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