Tuberville's Bill: 5-Year NCAA Transfer Rule

0:00It's April 6. You're listening to Birmingham News today, AI-powered local news. Senator Tommy Tuberville from Alabama is praising President Trump's new executive order that Titans rules on college athlete transfers in the NCAA and caps eligibility at five seasons. Tuberville wants to lock this in for good with his own bill called the Student Athlete Act, which he dropped late last month. The order and the bill aimed to fix what Tuberville calls a broken transfer portal messing up college sports. They set clear limits, athletes give five straight years to play five seasons, plus one free transfer without sitting out. Tuberville argues this stops older players, like 25-year-olds, who already graduated from sticking around and competing. He says it protects education too, since constant transfers hurt students' focus on school. He's pushing for national guidelines on athletes earning money, but was structured to keep things fair. No more chaos in the system. Tuberville's eyeing a quit vote on his bill and plans to team up with colleagues to

1:03push it through, aiming to restore order to college athletics for. Good.