{"id":832097,"date":"2026-03-25T01:26:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T01:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/832097\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T01:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T01:26:37","slug":"former-head-coach-proposes-bill-to-change-eligibility-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/832097\/","title":{"rendered":"Former head coach proposes bill to change eligibility rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot has been made about the eligibility rules surrounding college sports over the last few seasons. Due to court battles, players have tried to return to the field<\/a> and earn more money through NIL. The NCAA has lobbied Congress for help on how to navigate this, and they might have an answer.<\/p>\n

Alabama senator and former college football head coach Tommy Tuberville introduced a new bill that would place limits on NCAA eligibility and help curb some of the chaos<\/a> across college sports due to the emergence of the transfer portal and the way NIL has been used to entice players to transfer. Tuberville’s bill would set eligibility limits at 5 consecutive years of play or 5 consecutive seasons. Athletes could transfer once; additional transfers would require sitting out a year.<\/p>\n

Tuberville was a college football coach before the transfer portal got as busy as it has been over the last few seasons. He coached at Auburn, Mississippi, Texas Tech, and Cincinnati. In 2024, the NCAA and the Department of Justice reached a settlement that allows unlimited transfers for all athletes.\u00a0The\u00a0NCAA also recently approved the House Settlement,<\/a> allowing\u00a0schools to play players directly.<\/p>\n

\u201cTransferring every year interrupts a student\u2019s education and is bad for team morale,\u201d Tuberville wrote in a Tuesday post\u00a0on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m introducing a bill that would allow student-athletes to transfer 1 time without penalty, no questions asked. After that, if you choose to transfer, you sit out a year. It\u2019s simple,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

It is also worth noting that Tuberville said current policies allow movement that resembles \u201cunrestricted free agency rather than amateur competition\u201d and added in an interview with Outkick that athletes are \u201cselling themselves\u201d for the money rather than buying into a program.<\/p>\n

Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter of the Department of Justice\u2019s Antitrust Division previously said college athletes shouldn\u2019t have to \u201cunfairly limit their mobility\u201d but instead choose the institutions that \u201cbest meet their academic, personal, and professional development needs.\u201d It seems unlikely that Tuberville’s bill will pass, given the changes already underway in college sports, but it will be interesting to see what happens next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot has been made about the eligibility rules surrounding college sports over the last few seasons. Due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[111981,23337,7,49,27962,48,15844],"class_list":{"0":"post-832097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-basketball-transfer-portal","9":"tag-college-football-transfer-portal","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaa-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116287214864710785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}