Greg Sankey was among those who travelled to Washington D.C. to attend president Donald Trump\u2019s roundtable at the White House on Friday. Sankey was in attendance, but revealed that he didn\u2019t anticipate the event to be broadcast live for everyone to see. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was aware the meeting was going to be public. I was not aware it was going to be broadcast live,\u201d Sankey revealed during an appearance on the Paul Finebaum Show Monday. \u201cSo, I turned my phone off. You obviously want to be fully focused on that kind of meeting. When I turned my phone on, I realized, based on the number text messages sent to me, that some broadcast outlet had the live feed.\u201d<\/p>\n
The SEC commissioner wants to put these issues front and center for all fans to see. He even suggested airing it live on his conference\u2019s broadcast network: \u201cIf there\u2019s ever a reconvening,\u201d Sankey said, \u201cwe\u2019ll see if that can be on the SEC Network.\u201d<\/p>\n
It should be noted that there hasn\u2019t been anything that has come out to suggest there will be another. For now, the biggest takeaway is the president is planning to sign an executive order<\/strong><\/a> that he says will be \u201cmore comprehensive\u201d than the one he signed in July even though he expects it to be challenged in court. Trump said, \u201cI\u2019d like to go exactly back to what we had and ram it through a court.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n He plans to sign the executive order because of the \u201cdisaster\u201d he believes NIL and revenue sharing is for college athletics. Trump said<\/a><\/strong> it\u2019s \u201cruining families, ruining everything,\u201d so he\u2019ll hope the order is seen by someone \u201cwho\u2019s a real judge, a compassionate judge and a judge with common sense (who) will get it approved.\u201d<\/p>\n Whether the president goes through with the executive order, or if there\u2019s another roundtable to be aired remains to be seen. What\u2019s clear is that everyone representing college athletics at the White House last week have respective issues they want ironed out. <\/p>\n Sankey said during the Finebaum Show that many of the issues he wanted to target had already been brought up by his colleagues during the roundtable. The SEC commissioner recently said that he is in favor of having national standards in NIL.<\/p>\n