U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is proposing legislation that would allow college athletes to transfer only once without having to sit out an academic year.
According to OutKick, the bill states that a student-athlete has five years of eligibility to play college athletics, regardless of injury or other events.
The bill is entitled the Student Athlete Act of 2026.
It also requires any athlete who transfers more than once to sit out for the academic year in which he or she entered the transfer portal.
"Sixty to seventy percent of them (college programs) don't even look at high school athletes, they look at the portal and say 'How can we win now? How can we bring players in?'. It's going to bring the price down on a lot of these players in which to me, it's ok because they're going to be making money anyway. I'm all for them making money," Tuberville told OutKick on Tuesday. "But for them to keep selling themselves for $50,000 to $100,000 more, I think it's creating a huge problem."
Tuberville continued, "I've talked to President Trump about it, he knows it and understands it. We can't get into all the antitrust, the agents, we can't do that."
"That's got 5o be handled by the NCAA. But one thing we can do is stop this transfer every year, and give these kids the chance to get a degree, and one time transfer if they have a death in the family, circumstances or don't get along with the coaches," Tuberville told the outlet. "But, if you use it, it's over with. But if you use it, you have to sit out a year, though most of them won't do that anyway."
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