Over the last couple of years during the changing era of college football and chaos that has ensued, a popular idea has emerged: Appointing a “commissioner of college football.”

Unlike every professional league where there is a defined governing body and a leadership structure where the people making the decisions can be clearly identified, college football has found itself in a state where nobody knows who’s in charge, the NCAA has no power, players can do whatever they want and go wherever they want, and the overall quality of product is diminished.

The idea behind a commissioner is having someone actually be able to make and decide on rules that would benefit the athletes, the coaches, and the overall health of the game. Since his sudden retirement as head coach at Alabama following what was arguably the greatest coaching career in the history of the sport, many have suggested that Nick Saban step into that role and become the commissioner of college football.

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Add Penn State Nittany Lions head coach James Franklin to the list of people who think Saban is the right man for the job.

“I think one of the most important things we can do is, let’s get a commissioner of college football that is waking up every single morning and going to bed every single night making decisions that’s in the best interest of college football,” Franklin said ahead of his team’s quarter final matchup against Boise State. “I think Nick Saban would be the obvious choice if we made that decision. Now, Nick will probably call me tonight and say, ‘Don’t do this,’ but I think he’s the obvious choice, right?”

Franklin went on to propose some ideas that seem radical on the surface such as eliminating conference championship games, but really more so than anything he just like every coach in college football want there to be unity among conferences, guardrails in place, a defined set of rules that everyone has to follow, and overall just a return to order in a sport that looks more radically different with each passing day.