Lane Kiffin bails on College Gameday as Nick Saban calls for college football shakeup to ‘define the rules’

Is Nick Saban the next Roger Goodell?

College football has a problem and Saban may have a solution.

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College football has become the wild, wild West with the transfer portal, NIL, and essentially no real governing body.

The NCAA? Yeah, right.

The coaching carousel of the last few weeks has illustrated that point perfectly and the greatest college football coach of all time has a solution.

Saban has used his College GameDay platform to once again stump for the sport to get a commissioner.

“No question about the fact that I think we need to have a commissioner who’s kind of over all the conferences as well as a competition committee who sort of defines the rules of how we’re going to play the game because that’s what we don’t have right now,” Saban said.

“You know, we used to have contracts for coaches and for players that define what your academic responsibilities.

“When can you transfer, what’s your obligation to the school? We don’t have that now and if you really don’t support that you’re kind of supporting a little bit of anarchy.

“Which is what we have right now, whether it’s coaches or players. So I think having a commissioner, national commissioner, having a governing body certainly would enhance because I do think that the college football playoff has kind of camouflaged some of these issues because there’s so much interest in college football because my playoff great point.”

Saban isn’t wrong. College football needs a real commissioner and a legitimate governing body — not the paper tiger that is the NCAA.

He himself would make a great commissioner, but the likelihood of the country’s second-most popular sport getting one is a long shot.

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Kiffin has been front and center of the discourse and a widely anticipated appearance on College GameDay was expected to see the new Tigers coach shed some light on the last few weeks.

However a late cancellation from the former Ole Miss coach meant he was missing from show’s build-up to the SEC Championship in Atlanta.

Kiffin took to social media to announce the news, with his recruiting duties at Baton Rouge the reasoning behind

“Welp had to stay in BR and still finishing some things out with players and a coach!! Won’t make it to Atlanta for @CollegeGameDay #WhatAGreatFriday,” Kiffin said in a quoted post alongside Brown’s commitment.

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