President Trump will convene roundtable to discuss future of college sports: report

The statement implicit assemblage athletics betterment is heading to Washington.

President Donald Trump volition big a White House roundtable adjacent week, Fox News Digital has confirmed. The sheet is expected to see salient coaches, assemblage sports and pro sports league commissioners and different nonrecreational athletes, according to aggregate reports.

The radical volition conscionable March 6 to analyse solutions to cardinal challenges, including NCAA authority; name, representation and likeness issues (NIL); corporate bargaining; and governance concerns. 

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President Donald Trump earlier a assemblage shot crippled betwixt the U.S. Army and Navy astatine the M&T Bank Stadium successful Baltimore Dec. 13, 2025.  (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump is expected to seat discussions connected the issues raised by the roundtable. College sports leaders person yet to trade a broad hole for the large challenges facing collegiate athletics.

NCAA authorization has travel nether scrutiny successful caller years amid respective tribunal rulings. The emergence of name, representation and likeness has transformed assemblage athletics, intensifying statement implicit amateurism for student-athletes.

The spread betwixt schools that vie successful powerfulness conferences and smaller universities that play successful the Group of Six conferences has lone seemed to widen implicit the past respective years. The Big 10, Big 12, SEC and ACC clasp oregon are successful negotiations for monolithic media rights contracts that importantly outpace smaller conferences.

The NCAA logo extracurricular the NCAA's office Feb. 28, 2023, successful Indianapolis.  (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

There person been calls for the U.S. Congress to measurement successful and found a nationalist model to make a much unchangeable playing field. However, nary connection has emerged that would efficaciously code the issue.

According to Yahoo Sports, the database of sheet invitees includes Tiger Woods, erstwhile Alabama manager Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Notre Dame diversion manager Pete Bevacqua, Heisman Trophy victor Tim Tebow and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. However, the database is taxable to change, sources told The Athletic.

Brad Neffendorf, manager of the LSU Shreveport shot team, from halfway right, President Donald Trump and Jay Johnson, manager of the Louisiana State University shot team, during a solemnisation for the LSU Tigers and LSU Shreveport Pilots shot champions successful the East Room of the White House successful Washington, D.C., Oct. 20, 2025.  (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump’s involvement successful assemblage sports has carried into his 2nd term, highlighted by his attendance astatine past month’s College Football Playoff nationalist title betwixt Indiana and Miami. Trump was besides connected manus for the yearly Army-Navy crippled successful December.

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In July 2025, the president signed an enforcement order, "Saving College Sports," instructing national agencies to reappraisal antitrust protections for the NCAA and conferences and oversight of third-party name, representation and likeness payments.

The bid led to nary binding changes, signaling that immoderate impactful betterment would apt request legislature action. Trump besides considered a statesmanlike committee co-chaired by Saban, though the program was yet tabled.

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