The head coach directs every aspect of a football team; he doesn't pick a personnel team and chief of staff who in turn choose players and then tell them to go have fun. The Kennedy center awards are selected based on lifetime achievements and some of the President's people are involved in the approval, but 0 is no more than a distant spectator in that process.
Congratulations for giving me a great laugh at your lack of football knowledge, though.
And the laugh I gave you is only my humble effort to repay you for the chortle you gave me by suggesting Barry didn't know who he was talking to when he was talking to the surviving LZ members.
Blind pig + acorn.
What matters is that they were recognized regardless of who was POTUS at the time.