Jemele Hill sarcastically responds to Donald Trump reportedly considering NIL executive order after Nick Saban meeting

Sports writer Jemele Hill is not a fan of United States President Donald Trump reportedly looking to change the landscape of NIL in college sports after meeting with former Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump is considering an executive order that would limit NIL payments to college athletes.

Hill, who has been a vocal critic of Trump in the past, sarcastically responded to the development on X.

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"Pay attention college athletes .. bet you didn’t know this when or if you voted. NCAA has dropped a cool $250K to lobbyists to seize control of NIL. Good luck!," Hill wrote on X.

Hill is a writer for The Atlantic. In 2017, she tweeted that Trump was "a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself with other white supremacists."

Nick Saban has been against NIL in college sports

Nick Saban is arguably the greatest college football coach of all time, but he has frequently voiced his opposition to NIL.

"That creates a situation where you can basically buy players," Saban told the Associated Press in 2022 about his worries with NIL. "You can do it in recruiting. I mean, if that's what we want college football to be, I don't know. And you can also get players to get in the transfer portal to see if they can get more someplace else than they can get at your place."

NIL and the transfer portal ended up being a key reason why Saban retired from coaching the Crimson Tide.

Saban finished his college career with seven national championships and went 292-71-1.

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