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.

Former Alabama football head coach Nick Saban and President Donald Trump were together last week at the University of Alabama's commencement ceremony. During that time, the two of them discussed the current landscape of college athletics. The Trump administration is reportedly considering an executive order that targets NIL.