{"id":1161768,"date":"2025-05-15T12:18:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T18:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1161768"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T18:18:42","slug":"saban-talks-nil-commission-potential-involvement-at-regions-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/saban-talks-nil-commission-potential-involvement-at-regions-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Saban Talks NIL Commission, Potential Involvement at Regions Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Alabama head football coach Nick Saban addressed growing speculation Wednesday about his possible involvement in a new college sports commission reportedly being formed by President Donald Trump to address issues surrounding name, image, and likeness (NIL) rules.<\/p>\n<p>Saban, speaking at the Regions Tradition pro-am golf tournament, confirmed he had heard about the effort but said he has not yet been formally asked to participate.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting on the matter pointed towards the President&#8217;s intention to create a commission on college sports to help to solve the issue and that Saban was going to be one of the co-chairs of the commission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be honest with you, I don\u2019t really know much about this commission,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/alabamafootball\/2025\/05\/nick-saban-on-trumps-proposed-college-sports-commission-i-think-we-know-what-needs-to-be-done.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> media outlets including AL.com. &#8220;I don\u2019t really know what this commission would do. I think we know what needs to be done. I just think we\u2019ve got to figure out who\u2019s got the will to do it\u2026I\u2019ve learned one thing about coaching for all these years that when you get into a subject like this that\u2019s very complex, it\u2019s probably good not to talk about it off the cuff. So I\u2019ll find out more about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there\u2019s something that I can do to help college football be better, I\u2019m always going to be committed to do that. I was committed to do that as a coach, to help players be more successful in life. And I would continue to do the same thing now,&#8221; Saban said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former Alabama head football coach Nick Saban addressed growing speculation Wednesday about his possible involvement in a new college sports commission reportedly being formed by <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/saban-talks-nil-commission-potential-involvement-at-regions-tradition\/\" title=\"Saban Talks NIL Commission, Potential Involvement at Regions Tradition\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1049959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,91,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1161768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crimson-tide-bama-tide","8":"category-alabama","9":"category-featured-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/168231111010_bama_at_uk.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161769,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161768\/revisions\/1161769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1049959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}