{"id":444331,"date":"2025-12-13T11:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444331\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T11:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:06:13","slug":"matt-rhule-endorses-nick-saban-as-commissioner-for-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444331\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Rhule endorses Nick Saban as commissioner for college football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid all the complaints about the current state of college football, be it the College Football Playoff<\/strong> or NIL <\/strong>and the NCAA Transfer Portal<\/strong>, the only solution that has any consensus is the overwhelming desire for a \u201ccommissioner\u201d to create and enforce rules and regulations across the sport.<\/p>\n

And, whenever the topic of a college football commissioner comes up, one name always seems to be connected: Nick Saban<\/a><\/strong>. Of course, the 74-year-old former Alabama<\/a><\/strong> head coach-turned-ESPN College GameDay analyst has repeatedly shot down any such suggestion<\/a> when it inevitably comes up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to be in that briar patch of being a commissioner,\u201d\u00a0Saban told the Associated Press in late August<\/a>. \u201cBut I do want to do everything I can to make it right.\u201d<\/p>\n

But now the call is coming from inside the house. This week, Nebraska<\/a><\/strong> head football coach Matt Rhule<\/a><\/strong> openly championed for Saban to accept the yet-to-be-created position during a discussion about the untenable current college football calendar on his House Rhules podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you this, I know most coaches, I know me, if that was one the table, I\u2019d certainly vote yes,\u201d Rhule said during Thursday\u2019s episode of his podcast, House Rhules<\/a>. \u201cBecause he\u2019s been in the trenches, he has experience, he has the vision. And you also have to have someone who has the guts and the toughness to make hard decisions, because you\u2019re not going to make everyone happy. That\u2019s why the NFL has Roger Goodell<\/strong>, he\u2019s going to do things, even if people don\u2019t like them, he\u2019s going to do what\u2019s right for the game. And they protect the league. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, our conferences are our leagues, so everyone is protecting their own conference, which is why things end up being maybe a little disjointed as a result,\u201d Rhule concluded. \u201cSo, shoot, come on Coach Saban, do it, man. We need you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saban has long been a proponent of more regulation and structure in the sport, especially after this summer\u2019s passage of the\u00a0House v. NCAA settlement<\/a>\u00a0that ended the NCAA\u2019s outdated \u201camateur\u201d model. The settlement ushered in revenue-sharing across college athletics, allowing programs to pay as much as $20.5 million to their student-athletes, with football teams expected to receive roughly 75% of that total annually. Of course, that has only created more issues, so much so that Congress is now getting involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor years and years and years as coaches, and when we were players, we learned this, we\u2019re trying to create value for our future,\u201d Saban told the AP. \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re going to college. It\u2019s not just to see how much money we can make while we\u2019re in college. It\u2019s, how does that impact your future as far as our ability to create value for ourselves?\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, if Saban really wants to be part of the solution to what ails college football, Rhule knows the perfect way for him to make the biggest impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid all the complaints about the current state of college football, be it the College Football Playoff or…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":444332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,5512,1317,1315,1316,155385,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-444331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-matt-rhule-94-state-college-area","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-nick-saban-69-monongah","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}