Meet the nobodies who are biggest somebodies in Trump college sports roundtable
By Matt Hayes
Published on March 3, 2026.
The article discusses the significance of Jeff Gold, Jere Morehead and Donde Plowman in the upcoming White House meeting to address college sports issues. The meeting, which will also take place at the University of Florida, aims to fix what is broken without the Big Ten and SEC signing off on reforms. Georgia's president, Morehead, is considered the most hands-on sports administrator in the nation and Georgia's chancellor, while Gold led the return to play during the pandemic season and is considered a key figure in college sports. Despite accusations that Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey have become the bad guys in this deal, these three leaders are seen as key figures in the solution. The author suggests that the SEC and Big Ten could survive without an antitrust exemption, but this could be done without an outright antitrust exemption.
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