Nick Saban expected to serve as co-chair for Trump administration's commission on college football
- Nick Saban, who previously led Alabama’s football program, is anticipated to serve as a co-chair of a presidential commission on college athletics established by Donald Trump in 2025.
- This commission builds on recent talks between Saban and Trump focusing on reforms to Name, Image, and Likeness and other critical college sports issues.
- The commission will examine topics including the transfer portal, booster compensation, athlete employment status, Title IX, revenue sharing, television contracts, and conference alignment.
- Saban, who retired in January 2024 with 201 wins and now advises Alabama athletics while working as an ESPN analyst, will co-chair alongside Texas businessman Cody Campbell.
- The commission aims to address ongoing challenges in college sports and could influence the pending NFL settlement and possible executive orders for NIL oversight.
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Trump’s (planned) commission on college sports: Will it save the NCAA or just add to the chaos?
It did not take long — nanoseconds, at most — for critics to emerge Wednesday in the aftermath of a report that President Donald Trump plans to create a commission on college sports. The blowback made perfect sense given that Trump is highly polarizing and the NCAA is widely loathed. But the development is actually good news for an industry hurtling towards anarchy, because something is better than nothing. And nothing is precisely what college …
Trump’s (planned) commission college sports: Will it save the NCAA or just add to the chaos?
It did not take long — nanoseconds, at most — for critics to emerge Wednesday in the aftermath of a report that President Donald Trump plans to create a commission on college sports. The blowback made perfect sense given that Trump is highly polarizing and the NCAA is widely loathed. But the development is actually good news for an industry hurtling towards anarchy, because something is better than nothing. And nothing is precisely what college …
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