I’ve been out of Alabama for a few days, so I missed some big stuff. Like Nick Saban playing second fiddle to Donald Trump at my alma mater. “I feel like I’m the warm-up band for The Rolling Stones,” Saban quipped at Trump’s University of Alabama commencement-and-me speech.

On the heels of reports that President Donald Trump is weighing an executive order that would attempt to impose a new federal framework for college athletes' NIL and other economic opportunities, former Alabama football coach Nick Saban has drawn rebuke for his apparent role in shaping Trump's viewpoints.

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.