West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez loves the idea of Nick Saban leading a college sports commission under President Donald Trump. Heck, the old but new Mountaineers coach wants to throw his hat in the ring to help out.
Not only did Rich Rod call Saban the greatest coach of all time, he mentioned how Saban has college football’s best interests in mind. Saban admittedly doesn’t know what this new role will exactly entail, but it could be promising.
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Rodriguez knows college football and college athletics need some fixings along the way. Maybe it starts with Saban.
“I think, the greatest college football coach of all time, and not only (does) he (have) a great grasp of the game in general, my phone, I will give him my cell number,” Rodriguez said on Sirius XM. “(If) they want an active coach to be on a deal, I’ll be on that sucker. And you know, I’ve got some experience. I could help from a current standpoint. I don’t know if they need me, though, but having Coach Saban on there … he doesn’t have an interest to help his team or whatever … He’s truly about college football.
“And college football is such a great entity, it’s hard to screw it up, you know? I mean, you can do whatever you want, it’s still going to be that passion for your school and for that level of athletes. So we’ve done enough things to screw it up in the last couple years. I think we’re … going to start trending the other way and get it right and coach will help that for sure.”
Yahoo! Sports insider Ross Dellenger first reported Trump’s plans to form a commission focused on college sports. The Athletic also added the president will be “very engaged” because of the national importance he sees in college athletics.
“To be honest with you, I don’t really know much about this commission,” Saban said Wednesday morning ahead of his annual appearance at the Regions Traditions Pro-Am in Birmingham, Alabama, according to BamaOnline. “I don’t really know what the commission will do. I think we know what needs to be done, I just think we need to figure out who’s got the will to do it. I learned one thing about coaching all these years: when you get into a subject like this that’s very complex, it’s probably good not to talk about it off the cuff.
“So I’ll find out more about it, and if there’s something I can do to help college football be better, I’ll always be committed to do that. I was committed to do that as a coach, to help players be more successful in life, and I’d continue to do that same thing now.”
