It’s not often that Nick Saban is the second-most-powerful man in the room. But last Thursday night in Tuscaloosa, the seven-time national championship-winning coach warmed up a crowd of graduating seniors at the University of Alabama for the President of the United States.

The commission is expected to include college sports stakeholders and businesspeople with deep connections to college football.

One of President Donald Trump’s forthcoming executive orders could target NIL payments in college football after he met with former Alabama head coach Nick Saba