Saving College Sports Roundtable

We're gathered today to discuss an important threat to the integrity and culture of college sports, the inability to set rules on eligibility, transfers, name, image, and likeness and more much more than that. So, we have to save college sports. I think it's just a very very important meeting.

We have the most important people in college sports and really beyond. You know, just being an old football coach, it's unlikely for me to be in a situation where I'll be speaking to such a distinguished group. But I do think there's a question we all need to ask is, you know, what are the future guidance that we want to create for college athletics?

As people talked to me about this issue, they said one thing, the only person who could bring us together to reach a consensus is President Trump. This is a topic and and an issue that's important to all Americans. It's a cornerstone of our culture, uh the cornerstone of our Olympic development system, and provides opportunity for so many kids across the country.

There are 556,000 young people playing college sports right now uh across all 50 states. They will tell you that this is one of the most formative and important parts of their collegiate experience. I think college sports is one of the greatest things this country has going and we're at a time period where we really need the help of Congress and the government and all come together and speak in one unified voice to really make sure that we keep college sports healthy.

But it's very very important uh that legislator get involved because uh we need some parameters uh right now and the law in Congress can make that happen. We all know college sports is uniquely American. It's something that began here in the mid 1800s and has continued to grow and draw people in.

And from my perspective, the attention paid by President Trump to college sports is an important part of his leadership. We cannot continue to have an environment where NIL is out of control. And I think this requires people coming together and thinking about solutions so that we can maintain the the vital passion around college sports in this country.

The time is now for really the leaders in college sports to come together, figure out solutions, and make sure we can move into the future with really kind of great momentum and asurances that we can keep college sports special.