Higher Education Finance

At a March 6 White House roundtable, Trump warned that unchecked NIL payments could put the entire U.S. collegiate system "out of business" and said he would issue an "all‑encompassing" executive order within a week that he expects will prompt litigation. The meeting — which included coaches, conference commissioners and lawmakers but no current athletes — spotlighted competing proposals to shore up athletic finances, from the SCORE Act to bills allowing conferences to pool media rights (a Texas Tech regent estimated $6 billion in new revenue, a figure disputed by the SEC and Big Ten), amid warnings that programs and scholarships could disappear without action.