The former Alabama football coach is expected to play a major role in an upcoming federal commission on collegiate athletics.

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.