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

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.

A prominent attorney called out last-minute NIL-related interventions from former Alabama football coach Nick Saban and U.S. President Donald Trump in the college sports Name Image and Likeness rights discussion.