New Headline: Time to Kick Up the Heat: The White House Urges Immediate Action in College Football!

If there is one thing we’ve learned over the last decade, it’s that President Donald Trump loves a good executive order. Add in a room with the head of the NCAA, power conference commissioners and legendary coaches like Nick Saban, and the president is in his element. Recently, Trump convened a summit titled "Saving College Sports," where he lamented the destruction of the American collegiate system and promised an "all-encompassing" executive order to fix the horrible mess of Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) and revenue sharing.

Those of us who love collegiate sports should be concerned. Trump’s summit combined nostalgia for the bygone era of scholarships-only for athletes and a healthy dose of skepticism toward the unanimous Supreme Court ruling in NCAA v. Alston , which paved the way for student-athletes to receive NIL payments.

Why can’t we go back to the good old days when coaches, universities and athletic conferences raked in cash, hand over fist, while players bore the physical punishment of monopoly-suppressed compensation? The answer seems fairly obvious, but even if it wasn’t, there is a bizarre, recurring confidence in the face of government incompetence infecting our politics. The federal government isn't good fixing things We are talking about a federal apparatus that has already spent decades helping higher education into a crisis.

Through a toxic cocktail of subsidized loans and administrative bloat, the government managed to turn the simple pursuit of education into a lifelong debt sentence. Having successfully driven the cost of a diploma into the stratosphere, while the value of a college degree remains the subject of intense debate , Washington has now decided it's the perfect time to fix college sports too. What could possibly go wrong?