[Tommy Tuberville] The transfer portal has screwed up college sports. My bill is simple: you get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons and you get 1 transfer. After that, if you transfer again, you sit out a year. This will fix 80% of the issues in NIL today.

[u/Lakelyfe09]

https://x.com/coachforgov/status/2036507854123770132?s=46&t=fwgmryeTanENut7u28ScCA

[u/whatifevery1wascalm]

I still think Head coaching changes should allow an additional transfer without sitting out.

[u/All-wildcard → u/whatifevery1wascalm]

Head coaching changes should definitely allow a transfer. But at the same time if the NCAA is going to force guys to take classes at the same time so the can pretend they’re students I don’t see how you can stop a student from transferring schools. They need to make them employees, and have multi year contracts.

[u/cartgold → u/All-wildcard]

Theres nothing stopping players from transferring schools 20 times in this law, they just have to sit out

[u/Horror_Response_1991 → u/cartgold]

If you sit out a year do you not lose that year?

[u/space9610 → u/Horror_Response_1991]

Football ≠ school

They can transfer and go to classes. They just need to sit out a year of football.

[u/Jaosborn44 → u/space9610]

Except the tweet says you have 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons. If someone transfers after their freshman year, spends 2 years at another program, then wants to transfer again for their last 2 years. If we follow the 5 consecutive years rule, the 1 year sitting after the 2nd transfer would count as a year if eligibility. The other comment was asking if that is how it would be enforced.

[u/throw667 → u/Jaosborn44]

I can't believe this math didn't come from a Harvard flair.

[u/Shtune → u/throw667]

Can we get Harvard in here to peer review the math?

[u/urnotserious → u/Shtune]

No. I'm busy.

Also it's off season.

[u/errandwulfe → u/Shtune]

Year 1 - Freshman
Year 2- Transfer to school #2, plays
Year 3 - 2nd year playing at school #2
Year 4 - Transfer to school #3 (sit out a year)
Year 5- last year of eligibility, one year played at school #3

[u/jaxonya → u/errandwulfe]

I'm over here wondering why a fucking congressman is worried about football when we have multiple crisis' going on. Shouldn't he be doing government stuff

[u/Im_Not_A_Robot_2019 → u/Jaosborn44]

Yes, then they run out of football eligibility. So what? You can try a school or two, or three, but after 5 years...it's over! Move on with your life. Or, even better, get a meaningful degree to enrich your life.

[u/Unrelenting_Salsa → u/Jaosborn44]

Of course it would be? There might be a better way to word it, but the intent is very clear. 5 years instead of redshirts.

[u/lambo630 → u/cartgold]

I can't wait for a team of 30 year old car salesmen with PhDs in communications or park management to win a natty.

[u/lburner220 → u/cartgold]

Having to sit out is stopping players. If you are going to call them students for the sake of convenience then treat them that way. They can transfer without penalty just like every other student. If you don’t want to do that then make them employees.

[u/bicyclechief → u/lburner220]

They can transfer without academic penalty. It’s not that hard to see that.

[u/kirbysdream → u/All-wildcard]

If they’re actually treated as students, they would also be subject to as strict of academic requirements as regular students, too.

[u/Important-Matter-665 → u/All-wildcard]

Agree, multi year contracts are the answer. Limiting the student athletes' options are what got us here in the first place. Imagine those restrictions placed on any other industry outside college football. In the NFL, Coaching changes don't affect the players contracts.

[u/agoddamnlegend → u/Important-Matter-665]

in the NFL, they have a players union to collectively bargain for the workers.

Until college sports has the same, fuck every single rule limiting them from doing whatever they want.

[u/Alarmed_Silver_3360 → u/agoddamnlegend]

That’s all there is to it.

[u/crazy_akes → u/whatifevery1wascalm]

How about we include coaches in the bill? You can transfer one time in 5 years. After that, you have to fully sit out a year to move jobs. No chance to take a demotion, you literally can’t be on a staff, even unpaid. 

Some would say we are taking away livelihood there, but that’s what the coaches do to players when players move to go with a coach and the coaches jumps ship and the program craters.

[u/unfunnysexface → u/crazy_akes]

I really need to see a reporter ask tuberville about this

[u/forgotmyoldname90210 → u/unfunnysexface]

Come on now, Tommy will take a phone call and slip right out of the resturant if you ask him that.

[u/mswise506 → u/whatifevery1wascalm]

I agree with this.

[u/GerdinBB → u/whatifevery1wascalm]

It's a double-edged sword though. The coach leaves and takes his whole roster with him (see Matt Campbell, Jimmy Rogers, and countless others). Is there any factor at play where coaches feel confident jumping ship because they know they can offer their current players a landing spot? Would coaches be less successful in their first year if they couldn't bring a roster with them and would that discourage coaches from leaving for new jobs?

It's this weird thing where we don't want players to be trapped at a school and we want to allow them to transfer while we dislike coaches leaving and we want them to stay put longer. But lots of times the players transfer and follow the coach. That means that the coach can leave and his players are doubly not punished - they can transfer freely and continue playing for that same coach. Everyone has become a mercenary.

I'm sure there's no way to enforce this, but I'd almost love to see a rule where players can transfer if their coach leaves, but they cannot follow the coach unless they're willing to sit out one year.

[u/Previous_Pension_309 → u/GerdinBB]

imagine you go to penn state for james franklin and his expertise on whatever you like…he gets fired and now i have to sit out a year?

[u/FragnificentKW → u/whatifevery1wascalm]

I agree with this and I would add that grad students should also get a free transfer without sitting out if they have any playing eligibility left

[u/dmay73 → u/whatifevery1wascalm]

I’ve said head coaches and position coaches. If I sign somewhere bc I think the OL coach is going to turn me into a monster and he leaves let me follow him

[u/Tsquared10]

You suddenly have a problem with cutting and running for a bigger paycheck Tommy?

[u/MrTheSpork → u/Tsquared10]

Clearly not, since his bill doesn't at all address coaching vacancies.

[u/WagTheKat → u/MrTheSpork]

If a coach leaves, we execute the offense.

And the defense.

And special teams.

Easy peasy, no need to worry about the portal.

[u/ATLHawksfan → u/WagTheKat]

Coach Brian Kelly, everyone!!!

[u/Obi-wan_Jabroni → u/WagTheKat]

The Brian Kelly Provision

[u/B0Boman → u/MrTheSpork]

Coaches can coach for 5 years, with one transfer. Now THAT would start to build some parity!

[u/Correct-Gold1836 → u/[deleted]]

Can only be a HC at one school for 5 years?

[u/Common_Sense_2025 → u/Correct-Gold1836]

You have five years to coach in college and then you are out. Not good enough for the NFL? Go get a job in construction or selling cars.

[u/Correct-Gold1836 → u/Common_Sense_2025]

Unfortunately they run for Congress and Governor.

[u/Wazootyman13 → u/Correct-Gold1836]

After 5 years, Tuberville has shown he's not good enough for the Senate...

Though, to be fair, he showed he wasn't good enough on day one when he didn't know what the branches of government were

[u/Common_Sense_2025 → u/Wazootyman13]

Senators get 6 years but I have no doubt he'll get 6 more.

[u/meepmarpalarp → u/Correct-Gold1836]

Put a five year limit on that too.

[u/p8ntslinger → u/Common_Sense_2025]

if I coached at a P4 school and made 5 million a year, I'd literally retire after 5 years. have a net worth of at least 10 million. Fuck working. I'll be crappie fishing 4 days a week till I'm 80

[u/Common_Sense_2025 → u/p8ntslinger]

But under my rule, you'd burn 4 of your 5 years as an assistant. You'd make a lot less, but too bad, time is up after 5 years.

[u/p8ntslinger → u/Common_Sense_2025]

oh well

[u/inquisitorautry → u/Correct-Gold1836]

You guys are keeping coaches for more than 5 years?

[u/Electromotivation → u/inquisitorautry]

Not successfully

[u/ksuwildkat → u/Correct-Gold1836]

Coaching contracts are for 5 years, no buyouts, no extensions, no raises. After 5 years a new contract can be written.

Coaches can leave once inside a 5 year contract. After that leaving before the end of the contract requires not coaching for a year. After 20 years this resets. if you go 20 years having never left inside your contract you can "bank" a transfer so in theory you could quit twice before triggering a "redshirt" year.

Universities can fire one coach before the end of the 5 year contract. After that the AD has to be the coach for 1 year. After 20 years this resets. Same rule for banking as coaches.

[u/SituationSoap → u/Correct-Gold1836]

5 years to coach 5, can only change jobs once. Why not? If it's good for the students, it should be good for the coaches too.

[u/No-Owl-6246 → u/SituationSoap]

I agree. Think of all the coaches that are being given an opportunity to earn a free college education and opportunity to eventually manage an Enterprise for $60,000 a year plus bonuses but instead are harming their future by grasping endlessly at being college coaches.

[u/Common_Sense_2025 → u/No-Owl-6246]

Think of all of the high school coaches being kept out of CFB because of the CFB coaches with 7, 8...15 years of coaching eligibility. GET A JOB!

Edited to add my feigned concern for the mental well being of coaches who are allowed to switch jobs where they may not get the same level of community and alumni support.

[u/WorkingInAColdMind → u/Tsquared10]

Make it a non-compete clause. If a coach changes programs, no player from their current program can transfer to the new program unless they gave 90 days notice prior to the coaching announcement. See how that flies.

[u/BiscuitDance → u/Tsquared10]

Tommy Tuberville: ”Student ath-o-letes…..”

But I can’t believe I’m agreeing with that scum bag

[u/upclassytyfighta → u/BiscuitDance]

You shouldn't agree with him--this isn't an answer to the massive structural issues facing college athletics. It shifts the onus and blame to athletes, without addressing a system that they navigate, which is the bigger issue.

[u/AggressiveWolverine5 → u/upclassytyfighta]

Exactly 

[u/SteveFrench12 → u/[deleted]]

What? You dont want to see coaches get their team to the playoffs and then leave before the playoff game? /s

[u/Gunner_Runner → u/SteveFrench12]

Who would do that? You work hard for years to get your team into a legitimate position for the National Championship and you'd just bail to a conference rival?

Pff. Would never happen.

[u/HustlinInTheHall → u/SteveFrench12]

"You'll have to carry me out of here in a pine box" -Tommy a week before he quit to take a better job. 

[u/mathplex → u/HustlinInTheHall]

"I needed Oxford more than Oxford needed me" - another jerk who left to take a "better" job

[u/FridgesArePeopleToo → u/[deleted]]

Coaches are under contract so it's not the same at all.

[u/willdesignfortacos]

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called him out on that hypocrisy two weeks ago in a public forum

“Same thing for the coaches?” Murphy asked Tuberville at the time. “Transfer one time?”

The former coach was speechless. Truly, scrambled his brain.

“You got me, Chris,” Tuberville sheepishly admitted.

https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2026/03/casagrande-tubervilles-simple-nil-fix-and-the-dumb-lies-told.html

[u/idoma21 → u/willdesignfortacos]

Tuberville isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. He’s more of a spoon

[u/FriendlyCapybara1234 → u/idoma21]

This the senator who couldn’t even name the three branches of government?

[u/WallImpossible → u/idoma21]

Somehow the flattest spoon.

[u/[deleted] → u/idoma21]

I mean he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer because all of this bill would be ruled illegal and antitrust violations which is the reason we're in the current landscape right now lol

Any solution that doesn't include an antitrust exemption for the NCAA is not a legal solution.

[u/Fluid-Poet-8911 → u/willdesignfortacos]

Love how this proposal falls apart after one question and Tom is like damn you stumped me. 

[u/treegrowsinbrooklyn1 → u/Fluid-Poet-8911]

And like the one most obvious question that everyone on social media has been making jokes about for months. How did he not anticipate that exact question?

[u/jamminjoenapo → u/willdesignfortacos]

It’s real rich coming from him after his whole pine box presser at ole Miss. fuck you tubberville we haven’t forgot

[u/Techsanlobo]

He’s right. Involving the federal government will for sure fix this. I see no possibility of problems from here on out

[u/legend023 → u/Techsanlobo]

Who else is going to fix the problem? The NCAA?

[u/tdthirty → u/legend023]

Maybe I'm dense or missing something entirely, but shouldn't this (in theory) be a self-correcting problem? Boosters pay for an athlete to play at a certain school, the athlete leaves after one year, and the booster/school is supposedly upset about that.

Won't more boosters/schools just write these contracts so that the athlete is required to stay at the school for a certain amount of years or else void the money? If they're already doing that and the athletes are still leaving, then why are boosters getting upset if they keep their money and can spend it on a new player?

Edit: For those who might point out that making a player stay at one school is illegal through NIL, my larger question is more about the boosters. Why won't they just protect themselves over time through lower offers? If you are willing to overpay for a player, you have to know there is a risk that player will leave.

[u/SituationSoap → u/tdthirty]

Correct. People get all upset saying that the current situation is unsustainable, and don't realize that if it's truly unsustainable then it doesn't matter because it will correct itself.

[u/tdthirty → u/SituationSoap]

Yeah never understood the "unsustainable" line either. And not in a snarky way, I just would like to understand what that means. Seems like this is perfectly sustainable, but that boosters and fans don't like this Wild West environment.

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/tdthirty]

I think the "unsustainable" aspect is in relation to a couple of things:

1. Booster fatigue - this seems to already be a very real thing; boosters are being hammered for more dollars than ever before, and that's not an infinitely growing pool. This means that the teams with more big boosters will be able to withstand longer and just carve off the best players from less-resourced teams, and this will drive the consolidation that's already causing some folks to check out.
2. Damage done to smaller programs - In the past, a smaller school with a committed coaching staff could do incredible things; just look at what Jeff Traylor was building UTSA into. Now, it's functionally impossible for smaller schools to do build anything, since those schools with committed and talented coaching staffs have their rosters picked over like a buffet every offseason. Just look at what has happened to UTSA every offseason for the last 3~4 years.

The college football financial model is kind of focused on perpetually increasing returns as sports are kind of the last bastion of profitability for live television, but the NFL is gearing up to squeeze all of the free air out of that space. They've got all of the leverage over their broadcast partners these days, and the NFL is already pressing all of their broadcast partners for early renegotiations with massive leaps in revenue due to the NFL; the first up is CBS, where the NFL's current deal pays the league $2.1B/yr and they're targeting $3B per year.

[u/srs_house → u/tdthirty]

The problem is the schools are so dead-set on players not being employees that writing contracts like that is convoluted. Because technically NIL isn't supposed to be tied to on-field performance.

The result is this super grey area where a player wants to transfer and someone threatens to sue them for breach of contract, but the contracts are all private so who knows what's actually going on unless it winds up in court.

[u/[deleted] → u/srs_house]

And we're heading to courts finally ruling students athletes are employees. They're 95% of the way there. Once that happens, it opens up a whole new can of worms.

For example, these student athletes will unionize. But what about states that prevent public employees from unionizing? You know...states like North Carolina...??? Do you think legislators will actually make a carve out for student athletes at the expense of teachers and firefighters (LOL)

[u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 → u/tdthirty]

In theory, sure.

On paper, it seems to be working out quite differently so far.

Which is why it wouldve been better to make a concise plan, and not just wing it and hope it works out in theory.

[u/scotsworth → u/Techsanlobo]

I hear you, but also, our sport is not being governed by anything currently. Federal Law to me seems like the only way.

• The NCAA has been completely neutered. Is it their own fault? Absolutely. But the result is the same. They can't enforce a damn thing, and everyone knows it.
• Conferences have shown they will not govern themselves properly. They'll just follow TV Money, sponsorship Money, and hell even private investment money.
• Schools have shown they are more than willing to fight any governance if they think it will give them an on field advantage (see: eligibility lawsuits, NIL rule lawsuits).
• Coaches, Players, and every other stakeholder is naturally trying to maximize personal gain (which is fair). They have no incentive to encourage governance.
• Scumbag agents and others on the lowest level will lie and cheat and not give a shit.

It's an absolute wild west shit show, and a Federal mandate seems to me to be the one thing that could stop the madness and hopefully still protect players while making the sport better.

[u/LiquidLight_ → u/scotsworth]

Federal jurisdiction is also probably the best bet for enforcement of any rules too. State laws would just be a mess, if you're playing in Iowa, but your team is from Virginia, who's rules apply? You need something that can regulate the interstate nature of sports. 

[u/WoodpeckerNo5724 → u/LiquidLight_]

The simple answer is actually that the state you are in has jurisdiction. Always, regardless of what you do for a living. Iowa can’t do anything about something that takes place in Virginia.

[u/pompcaldor → u/scotsworth]

Nah, the private sector has already come up with a solution that works - unionization of employees and collective bargaining agreements. That market-based solution should appeal to those small government, pro-business politicians!

[u/No_Angle_8106 → u/Techsanlobo]

What else do they have going on? This is absolutely priority number one

[u/Alternative-Target31 → u/Techsanlobo]

They’re already very involved in colleges via federal funding. I think they have a legitimate interest in college athletics, but I also think it’s nonsense that you can have a situation where Kentucky is getting gigantic paychecks from the SEC and tons of federal funding and they build shit like a lazy river, while Western Kentucky is scrounging for money for libraries and shit.

(That’s a random same-state example, not actually picking on Kentucky and have no clue if they have a lazy river, but schools definitely do)

[u/10000Didgeridoos → u/Alternative-Target31]

It's also ridiculous the highest paid employee in most states is either a college football or men's bball coach.

[u/Kenya151 → u/10000Didgeridoos]

Not really, Those people oversee usually the biggest revenue streams and marketing opportunities for colleges. Anytime a Cinderella makes it to the sweet 16 they usually get flooded with applications.

Sports are a massive marketing opportunity for these colleges.

[u/mjst0324 → u/Techsanlobo]

I don’t even necessarily despise the proposal, I just think it’s an extremely transparent bid for goodwill from one of the country’s least liked elected officials

[u/FledglingNonCon → u/mjst0324]

There's nothing more "small government" than the federal government stepping in to try and regulate college sports.

[u/Fastbird33 → u/FledglingNonCon]

The whole small government thing is just marketing. Shitty marketing at that

[u/1900grs → u/Fastbird33]

Shitty marketing at that

I disagree. The marketing worked because there are a shit ton of people who believe that without understanding any of the ramifications while the politicians who preach it are hypocritical liars.

[u/Theduckisback → u/Techsanlobo]

Now to get in line at the airport, which im sure is functional with well paid security personnel.

[u/ringthree → u/Techsanlobo]

Republicans hate the government except when they love the government.

[u/Chambanasfinest → u/Techsanlobo]

To be fair, this is completely performative and he knows it.

There is essentially zero chance an NIL/NCAA-reform bill passes Congress and is signed into law in the next three years.

The current GOP trifecta couldn’t care less, and this type of deal doesn’t stand a chance under a divided government.

[u/MarlinManiac4 → u/Techsanlobo]

I’m sorry. What’s your solution that wouldn’t involve the government in some form? The governing structure of the sport has fallen apart and the government is the only institution with the power to write laws to standardize the rules without the courts being able to throw them out.

It’s the only realistic solution at this point.

[u/RatStore101 → u/Techsanlobo]

Small government strikes again!

[u/bigmouthsmiles]

[Tommy Tuberville] If it’s windy in Lubbock you don’t throw the ball. This will fix 80% of the problems at Texas Tech

[u/Tex-in-Tex]

Mind you, this coming from the guy who literally up and left recruits at a steakhouse for a bigger check. Real rich.

[u/Horror_Response_1991]

So you can just take their NIL money to 0 then and if they want to leave they have to sit out a year?

[u/ccam0821 → u/Horror_Response_1991]

I have to imagine this leads to a situation where players who have their free transfer left sign a series of 1 year deals, while those who transfer look for rest-of-eligibility deals

[u/bleachinjection → u/Horror_Response_1991]

Oh come on that would never happen because surely Senator Tuberville would never let that happen.

(do I need to add the "/s" I don't know anymore)

[u/Plastic_Willow734 → u/Horror_Response_1991]

Yeahhh we just gotta accept we need player contracts at this point

[u/tolvin55 → u/Horror_Response_1991]

Well yes ....its payment for name igame and likeness. Not for playing sports.

Now if you were to make them employees under contract......

[u/WallImpossible]

"Man who is always wrong about everything is once again wrong about a thing." Guess I can appreciate not having to read the article

[u/AggressiveWolverine5 → u/[deleted]]

Totally agree, players have never had many rights is freedom and I don’t see a problem with it since everyone else around them has been enriching themselves and doing whatever they wanted for forever. 

[u/THedman07 → u/[deleted]]

I agree. I think that entirely too much money is made off of this sport for players to stay as restricted as they were.

What are we even talking about this causing problems? INDIANA won the national championship this year. I would say that the state of competition in college football is much much better than it has been in maybe 20 years. The fact that SOME people don't like the dynamics changing doesn't make this worthy of federal government intervention.

[u/timelessblur]

Sorry but bathroom window Tubby does not get a say. He did enough of his own damage to college sports during his coaching days.

[u/thecravenone]

Thank fucking god tommy fucking tuberville is here to solve the only problem that exists in the american congress

[u/testicletitties69 → u/thecravenone]

Release the NIL files!

[u/vator911]

Honestly, the transfer portal has better outcomes for football in general. Guys are actually transferring to play more, or to try out a higher level. There are guys in this draft that would've been gone to history had they not be able to transfer.

College football lost the moral high ground when schools started jumping around conferences for better paydays. You need to let the players move too. Anything else is hypocrisy.

[u/pargofan → u/vator911]

I had to scroll this far to find a voice of reason.

[u/vator911 → u/pargofan]

I am a little shocked people agree with Mr. Tuberville.

[u/idoma21]

Nothing more unintentionally American than a football coach elected to Congress who has made millions trying to limit the earning power of those who he benefited from while coaching.

Tommy Tuberville: A true American idiot/patriot.

[u/aoasd]

It's not the government's job to police college athletics.

[u/SplakyD]

Good news for the country: Tommy Tuberville will soon be out of the Senate.

Bad news for those of us in Alabama: he'll soon be our governor.

[u/AgentIntelligent4269]

I think Senators should have bigger things to think about than college athletics Maybe get the airports running again?

[u/edelweiss_pirates_no]

* Tuberville is a moron (literally dumb as house plant)

* Tuberville is crooked. He'll vote whatever as long as $$$$

* Tuberville is crooked. Needs to be said twice.

[u/-Economist-]

Bro, our country is on fire. Our healthcare sucks. Our education sucks. Housing sucks.

And this is what politicians focused on? Fuck off.

[u/polochakar]

So these same terms should apply to coaches, ADs and university athletic staff as well.

Why are they just curtailing the players and not anyone else. A coach can move to new teams whenever and earns more than all the players combined.

[u/Trilliam_West → u/polochakar]

Apply the logic regarding scholarships to coaches too.

Somehow I don't think Nick Saban would have been cool with a dorm room and free tuition instead of the millions that he earned at Bama.

[u/ExtremeWorkinMan]

5 years to play 5 seasons? No more redshirts?

[u/doyouevenIift → u/ExtremeWorkinMan]

Why is everyone ok with 5 seasons? College is meant to be 4 years!!

[u/RapidEyeMovement → u/doyouevenIift]

Did yall really do it in 4 years?! Cause um my first major sucked and i was stuck there another year 

[u/srs_house → u/RapidEyeMovement]

Or if you go somewhere like Cal Poly you hear people say stuff like "I don't know why anyone would graduate in less than 6 years!"

[u/confirmd_am_engineer → u/doyouevenIift]

Depends on your program. My engineering school was designed as a 5 year program with three co-op terms working in the field.

[u/mercenaryarrogant]

Fuck off Tuberville you piece of shit

[u/hicktown33]

Fuck Tuberville.

[u/SPCsooprlolz]

Fuck Tommy Tuberville

[u/WaffleTacoFrappucino]

and that’s illegal because you’re restricting some one’s ability to work and earn money

[u/ufumut]

This is perhaps the first and only piece of legislation that Tuberville is even remotely qualified to have an informed opinion on.

[u/WallImpossible → u/ufumut]

And of course he has the wrong opinion on it. Not surprising from a man who can't even meet the requirements of being a Senator from the state of Alabama, (that being the "from the state of Alabama" part, since he lives full time in Florida)

[u/burywmore]

Good luck with those lawsuits on free trade Tommy.

If coaches can do it, players can do it. You can't have rules for one, and not the others.

[u/StopSpinningLikeThat]

This is a solution in search of a problem. Pass the same law and apply it to investment bankers.

[u/mcaffrey81]

I’d like to add a rider to that bill prohibiting members of Congress from trading stocks

[u/suck-it-elon]

Why is this asshole not concerned with real problems?

[u/The_Pandalorian]

Tommy Tumorville truly tackling America's most important problems.

[u/buffer5108]

I’m glad Tubby Tommerville is focusing on important things like NIL and not trivial things like TSA Funding.

[u/nautilator44]

Cool. Make it so the coaches have to honor their contracts.

[u/Hey_Its_Roomie → u/[deleted]]

Like most things Tuberville talks about, he hasn't put much depth into the argument he's making.

[u/MasterArCtiK]

Yikes he literally only comes up with terrible ideas doesn’t he. Man I can’t wait for him to become irrelevant again

[u/The_Sandwich_Lover9]

PERFECT I DONT SEE HOW GETTING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INVOLVED WILL CAUSE ANY ISSUES BECAUSE THERES NOTHING MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ITS NOT LIKE A FULL AGENCY ISNT GETTING PAID

[u/Jenetyk]

It's not an insane take. Of course the former coach doesn't at all address players caught in the coaching carosel.

[u/UnderwaterB0i]

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point

[u/251Cane → u/UnderwaterB0i]

It’s comforting to know that he doesn’t currently meet the legal requirements to run for governor of Alabama.

[u/UnderwaterB0i → u/251Cane]

Let’s hope “legal requirements” holds up in court.

I hate that I have to type that.

[u/251Cane → u/UnderwaterB0i]

He’ll Zoom in to the court hearing from his 30A house.

[u/BillsInATL → u/UnderwaterB0i]

It's not a great point. He's still one of the worst tho.

[u/tdthirty → u/BillsInATL]

Bro pulled "80%" out of absolute nowhere lol

[u/Or1g1nalrepr0duct10n → u/UnderwaterB0i]

It’s a shitty point, honestly. We don’t impose a blanket restriction on non-transferability on any non-union employee or independent contractor in the country. Even non-compete agreements have serious limits on their scope.

[u/Zorlai → u/UnderwaterB0i]

How is it a great point to restrict where athletes can play? If an athlete wants to leave a school and go be an athlete somewhere else, why should the government be making a law about that? Imagine the government made a law stating you can only transfer retail stores once in five years or have to sit a year out if you transfer between red lobster and Outback Steakhouse?

I’m just not sure why the government is involved here.

[u/RightofUp]

Dear Failed-Coach-Turned-Senator,

You have more important things to worry about.

Fuck You, Average American

[u/FeetFan1337]

Gotta be something to account for coaches leaving, but this 5 different schools in 5 years really fucks over the players long term and is antithetical to college education process. No way these kids are graduating at the rate they used to.

[u/BillsInATL → u/FeetFan1337]

Funny enough, NIL is keeping kids in school longer now since a lot of them can make more in college than jumping to the pros.

[u/tigerbomb88 → u/FeetFan1337]

You’re assuming college sports’ goal is to graduate these kids.

[u/FeetFan1337 → u/tigerbomb88]

I don’t even know what you’re trying to say but it seems a bit tin foiled hat. They have academic standards and admission standards and athletes all get tutors and extra resources for their academic success.

[u/MessageBeginning5757]

We can’t legislate out of this.

There needs to be an actual governing body that has actual power and there needs to be a CBA that everyone abides by.

[u/10000Didgeridoos → u/MessageBeginning5757]

And there can't be a bunch of different conferences of different financial stature all fighting with each other for pieces of the pie, poaching each other's members for leverage.

People want to actually "fix" college football? Start with geographical limits on conferences such that members must be within a certain logical footprint, not nationwide. Share all TV broadcasting revenue among all 120 programs equally, as opposed to two conferences having TV deals worth far more than any other. Limit the number of members in a conference, no more massive conferences that are so big you might go years between two members ever playing each other.

Coaches can't interview for and take jobs during a seasons. You get fired? Too bad. Wait until after the championship. You decide your coach needs to be fired? Too bad, you made that contract decision. Either ride out the season with him or use another coach on staff as an interim head coach until the offseason. No more stupid ass 10 year guaranteed contracts where a school ends up paying like 3 different head coaches because they fired the last two and are on the hook for years of salary still.

The conferences and coaches have way too much individual power and it just means the biggest of them can functionally do whatever they want.

The sport isn't amateur. It's professional and needs to be shaped and run like the NFL, NBA, NHL, etc. Imagine if NFL divisions negotiated their own TV deals separately.

[u/FreeBricks4Nazis]

Really tackling the big issues, ay Tommy?

[u/tornadoshanks651]

The SEC gonna get back to stacking talent and holding it hostage.

[u/ThiqSaban]

fuck tubby, he doesn't even live in the state he represents

[u/BrownStreakInMyPants]

I wonder where he got the percentage of 80, did he come up with every possible problem?

[u/TemporalVagrant]

Cool but why the fuck is this your priory Senator????

[u/Organic-Aardvark-146]

Think politicians have bigger issues to focus on

[u/papker]

Why does this have anything to do with congress?

[u/phidda]

All the freakoing problems in the country and world right now and he's going to waste legislative time on this?

[u/PrecedentialAssassin]

Yeah that'll get struck down in court in about 5 seconds.

[u/Parking-Permit-]

No one cares what you think

[u/JasonRBoone]

Is this really something Congress needs to be spending time on?

[u/MkJorgy]

A senator worrying about college sports. Must not be many other problems going on

[u/Dixiedeadhead]

Fuck Tommy.

[u/BearcatCowboy]

Fuck tuberville forever

[u/RobertCalifornia2683]

I think I’ll pass on advice from Tubbs.

[u/tykneedanser]

Tuberville was a shitty coach and is proving to be a worse politician. Why is Alabama so poor? Why is your state so low on test scores and higher education? Why are more of your people uninsured?

But go ahead and fix NIL. Doooosh.

[u/Jonjon428]

This is literally unconstitutional you dumbass

[u/ANotSoFreshFeeling]

Tubs authoring this bill is peek irony.

[u/Twxtterrefugee]

These idiots keep ignoring the main issue for any kind of reform. If the players are student athletes, and are students first, they get all the rights other students have. Thats central to any reform. Are they students or not?

[u/jornadamogollon]

Tuberville is a cancer. Fuck him.

[u/bigme100]

Is there any other industry where the federal government mandates the conditions of your employment? Is there any provision in the constitution for that?

[u/mookiewilson369]

Honestly, I like the current system. I watched a ton of college football last year. Not a popular opinion but I think it’s great players get paid, can transfer when they want.

[u/Mr_MacGrubber]

What does he think about coaches climbing out bathroom windows to run away from a team? Fucking piece of shit.

[u/thugmuffin22]

I hate Tuberville too but I feel like people are disliking this idea just because it’s coming from him.

The only way this gets fixed is with some sort of federal intervention.

[u/Salty-Commissioner]

Nobody Cares 🌈 about Tommy T

[u/elseworthtoohey]

Could this loser focus on bringing down health insurance premiums and gas prices.

[u/NYY_NYK_NYJ]

I doubt a single word is spelled correctly in that bill...

[u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN]

"All we have to do to fix college football is take away the rights of Americans to choose where they go to school and coerce them to stay in situations with toxic programs and abusive coaches instead of letting them have the same freedom of self-determination that any other student would have."

[u/Negativefalsehoods]

Tommy Tuberville: "Look, we can fix this if the players just accept our authority and do what we want, the market be damned." What a tool he is!

[u/SpaceCowboy34]

I’m sure getting Congress involved will clear all of this right up

[u/Bill_Brasky_SOB]

Dear Tuberville,

Fund TSA.

[u/Wolverine-N-Exile]

Will you make this same stipulation for coaches? Hell, how about make that for everyone? You are allowed to change jobs once every 5 years. That's it. BTW, when does the clock start? If you are Mormon, does it pause on mission? Does it start over?

We seem to be going along way to avoid the obvious solution - make them employees, form a union, get standardized contacts. The problem is, that puts everyone on the same foundation. There is no difference between NW and Alabama or Vandy and OSU. It would come down to facilities, coaches, location, and perhaps educational benefits. That's going to open up a whole new Pandora box.

[u/Odd_Estate4886]

I like that a US senator that thinks gun control is overreach but bills to limit college athletes earning potential is just right.

[u/sophandros]

The most recent national champion at the highest level in college football is one of the best sports stories in a very long time. That would not have happened without the transfer portal.

One of the best sports stories, not just in college sports but American sports in general, happened largely because of the transfer portal. That is the opposite of screwing up college sports.

[u/TheAgmis]

Shut the fuck up Tommy Tubberville you fucking skunk!!!!

[u/BigBlackQuack]

One LDS player who wants to go on a mission might be all it takes to kill this rule.

[u/Peefersteefers]

A) no it won't. 

And B) don't we have way more important things to think about rn? 

Old, out-of-touch loser.

[u/yankeenate]

Amazing how I must've seen at least 10,000 people on this subreddit make the exact same proposal as this guy, and all the comments are bitching and moaning about how it's the dumbest fucking idea they've ever heard.

[u/Woopigmob]

How about no sitting government official can be re-elected if we dont have a balanced budget. We have a lot of problems to fix before getting involved in college sports