For over a century, United States presidents have addressed the nation annually in high-profile State of the Union speeches.
The nation’s leader takes the podium in front of Congress (and an audience of millions watching at home) and reports on the current conditions of the budget, the economy, legislative achievements and more.
With the full-scale explosion of NIL and the implementation of revenue sharing into college sports, the job of a university athletic director has veered a smidge closer to that of the POTUS.
In the words of famous political strategist James Carville, who helped Arkansas’ own Bill Clinton become president in 1992, “it’s the economy, stupid.