Please don’t make it political. I doubt they accomplish much, too many unique attendees imo.

They updated story

Ross’ story updated to reflect it is former Sooners AD Joe Castiglione who is invited to Trump’s roundtable.

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From Yahoo article:

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U.S. President Donald Trump is convening next Friday a presidential roundtable of more than three-dozen dignitaries and sports celebrities to further explore solutions for the industry’s ills. The invitee list is a who's who — key political figures, prominent college sports stakeholders, television executives, former national title-winning football coaches, a sitting state governor, the NBA commissioner and, even, pro golfers such as Tiger Woods. Those with knowledge of the meeting spoke to Yahoo Sports under condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to discuss the matter. Many of those involved only recently received invitations to join, and it is unclear if all of those invited — as many as 40 — will attend.

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Amid the years-long congressional discourse over college sports legislation, the group — dubbed the Saving College Sports Roundtable — is expected to hold discussions over solutions to a once-amateur industry rapidly evolving into a more professionalized outfit.

The invitees include many of those within the industry itself, such as the four power conference commissioners (Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and ACC); at least one athletic director representing each power league (Wake Forest, Iowa State, Indiana and Oklahoma); Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua and ex-Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick; former coaches Mack Brown, Nick Saban and Urban Meyer; Texas Tech board member Cody Campbell; Heisman winners Tim Tebow and Charlie Ward; university presidents/chancellors Doug Girod (Kansas), Jeff Gold (Nebraska) and Donde Plowman (Tennessee); and former Clemson and West Virginia president Jim Clements.

There are plenty more from outside of college athletics — business titans, athlete celebrities and pro sports executives. They include NBA commissioner Adam Silver; millionaire businessmen like David Blitzer, Marc Ganis and Gerry Cardinale; pro golfers like Woods and Bryson DeChambeau; and former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. Media executives from Fox and ESPN are also expected to have received an invitation.

Direct link to Yahoo article it covers way more.

Yahoo article LINK

This post was edited on 2/26/26 at 5:48 pm