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Trump Participates in a Saving College Sports Roundtable, Mar. 6, 2026

March 6, 2026 · The White House · 1:47:13

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What happened

President Donald Trump convened the Saving College Sports Roundtable at the White House on March 6, 2026, gathering commissioners, coaches, university leaders, agents, and members of Congress — with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Education Secretary Linda McMahon among the administration officials he thanked for attending, and Speaker Johnson and Leader Thune in the room for the congressional side.

The President’s diagnosis, as he stated it: with eligibility, transfers, and name, image, and likeness effectively unregulated and decided “randomly by judges,” the system had produced “17-year-old quarterbacks for $12 million, 13 million, 14 million,” college players earning more than they would in the NFL, and a financial arms race canceling women’s sports, golf, wrestling, fencing, and even basketball programs. “It was announced that Penn State their athletic division lost $535 million this last year,” he said. He recalled the executive order he signed the previous July against pay-for-play schemes, and said the permanent fix had to come through Congress — federal legislation allowing programs “to set common sense rules” — with action, he hoped, in time for the next season. Speakers at the table walked through the SCORE Act’s framework: a single national law over 37 state laws, student-athletes affirmed as students rather than employees, liability protection, degree completion, and medical care.

In closing questions, the President said the new executive order he intends would be “much more comprehensive” than the July order, which he called “a test, as a feeler,” and answered the absence of student athletes in the room by saying their groups would be consulted after the kickoff meeting.

Why it matters

This roundtable is the administration’s college-sports intervention at full scale — the President, five cabinet secretaries, and the congressional leadership in one room — and it starts the clock he set: an expanded executive order plus the SCORE Act as the legislative vehicle. It is recorded on the Education hub.

Scoreboard watch

This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: the President’s commitment, as stated at the roundtable, to a more comprehensive college-sports executive order and to moving the SCORE Act through Congress, against the figures he cited — $12–14 million quarterback signings and a $535 million Penn State athletics loss. The scoreboard entry itself remains review-gated.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Participates in a Saving College Sports Roundtable,” The White House, March 6, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by President Trump and the roundtable participants.