NU President Jeffrey Gold will be in DC for the sports roundtable meeting that Trump has called.
Glad he’s focusing on the important stuff.
Well, since the Regents made the AD a direct report to the President, I think they sent a clear message that this IS an important part of his job. UNL Athletics is probably the thing that 90% of Americans know about the University of Nebraska, possibly much of what they know about the state of Nebraska.
Who knows what’s going to come out of this discussion, but IMHO it’s important for him to be ‘in the room where it happens’.
TBH, I’m a bit worried about agenda behind the ‘Saving College Sports’ group, and they’ll be there.
Mike Nolan
I took the comment to be about Trump, not Jeffrey Gold.
Trump has promised an all-encompassing Executive Order that will solve everyone’s problems, save post-secondary education and draw lawsuits, so it sounds like this big meeting will not amount to much.
Will it be called the big beautiful NIL-BILL?
It will have as much thought and planning as his Iran war.
Well, it’s been two weeks since Trump’s promise to fix all the NCAA’s problems with an EO, and so far the only EO has been one to ‘protect’ the Army-Navy game from having playoff or bowl games that conflict with it.
Was that even an issue? Don’t they usually play the week after conference championships before bowl games start?
I think the concern is that when they go to a 24 team schedule (not if–when), they will want to start the first round the week after conference championships, which may also be an endangered species.
But the end of conference championships could mean that the Army-Navy game could be played a week earlier than it was last year.
Fair point. I do wonder if they should just go back to playing during “rivalry week” before the CCG. It did present a weird scenario a couple years ago where army and navy could have potentially played in the CCG and then the week after.
Trump signs Executive Order on sports, details still being analyzed by schools and conferences.
All problems solved I am sure.
Interesting. Didn’t the courts already say such limits were an improper infringement of students’ rights?
Don’t Executive Orders expire at the conclusion of that President’s term?
No they don’t expire, but they can be repealed be a subsequent order.
The next president can remand them at anytime.
Jim Dean
IANAL, but I don’t think that’s quite what the courts said, I think they said there was no legal basis for the NCAA’s limitations. That’s why Congress has to get involved at some point.
Gerrymandering rendered Congress ineffective. Mike Johnson will ask Trump what he is supposed to do.
In a message dated 4/5/2026 12:35:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, nolan@tssi.com writes:
Executive orders last until they are revoked by a future president, overturned by court ruling, or cancelled by congressional legislation
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