No matter what seems to be going on in the world, Donald Trump always carves out some time to hit the golf course — and this time he was joined by a couple of college football legends.
According to Politico, the 79-year-old president was recently joined by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, as well as Nick Saban and Urban Meyer for a round of golf on Sunday.
Saban has worked pretty closely with his administration in the past when it comes to attempts to regulate college athletics. But as Meyer put it on this week's episode of "The Triple Option" podcast, all parties kept things "bipartisan" during this latest outing.
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Urban Meyer on golfing with Trump: 'It was an awesome day'
Recalling the day on the links with Mark Ingram II and Rob Stone, Meyer defended his decision take the president up on his invite despite how some may feel about it.
“I got invited to play golf with Coach Nick Saban and Governor Ron DeSantis and Donald J. Trump, our President,” Urban said. “What brought this on is just conversation about the positives and negatives of not just college football, college sports. The governor of the state, our governor, I live in the state of Florida, played baseball at Yale. The President of the United States is very interested in sports and just listened."
“It was an awesome day. Awesome. Sense of humor and also real serious conversation about what… It’s interesting to get Coach Saban’s take, my take, who’ve been in it for so long."
“This conversation is all bipartisan. It happens that one’s a Republican president, one’s a very conservative governor of our state. Coach Saban and I were there as guests, and it was all about our thoughts on how to make this thing better," Meyer explained. "The thing that I keep reiterating to people is, do you guys realize, and I know you two know it because we witness it every week at Big Noon, it’s never been better, college football.”
Nick Saban praises Trump's sports fandom
Back in November during an appearance on the "Pat McAfee Show," Saban spoke very positively about Trump and his love for sports ahead of Week 10's game between the Lions and Commanders.
“President Trump is a great sports fan,” Saban told the ex-Colts punter. “He loves sports. He loves football, he loves all kinds of sports. And if you ever talk to him, that’s all he wants to talk about.”
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Neither coach has gone out of their way to explicitly say that they align with Trump and his MAGA agenda, but they certainly have no issue playing a round of golf and making the occasional appearance at Mar-a-Lago if it means lobbying for CFB and college sports.