Last Thursday morning vehicles zipped along Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., as a parade of dignitaries from the Southeastern Conference walked toward the U.S. Capitol.
Passersby recognized the group of college football celebrities and gushed. A few drivers honked their horns and waved out of their windows. One man even stopped his vehicle in the street to scream a message toward the king of the sport: “Hey, Coach Saban!”
Alabama coach Nick Saban was among the group of college football’s most powerful leaders—coaches, athletic directors, school presidents and conference commissioners—who gathered for two days’ worth of meetings with congressional lawmakers and their staffs in a concerted effort to encourage them to pass federal legislation governing college athlete compensation.
