Sen. Tommy Tuberville had some pointed comments about modern college football, says Indiana legally 'bought' a team this year.
The economics of the industry and who’ll benefit financially from the cash windfall flowing are at stake.
There will be winners and losers, in relative terms, and the election earlier this month will likely set the scoreboard. With Republicans sweeping both the Senate and House along with the White House, the chances of getting a viable bill to break the logjam increases.U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville spoke about the state of NIL legislation when visiting the Monday Morning Quarterback Club in Birmingham.
“So we can do it. We can do it the right way,” Tuberville continued. “Players can make money. We can just disperse, you know, the revenue a little bit better to all athletes, not just a few. And then we can try to give the opportunity for schools to build programs like we used to. Not just haphazardly every year going out and buying a new player, new football team every year. I don’t mind players -- if you got a one-year contract, that’s fine.
Tuberville did that twice -- once when leaving Mississippi for Auburn in 1999 after promising he’d never leave and again in 2012 when bolting for Cincinnati while coaching at Texas Tech. “That’s name, image, likeness was about. It wasn’t about go recruit somebody in the ninth grade with half a million dollars. And, of course, they’re going to change their mind two or three times before they graduate. We got to get some kind of continuity to it.”
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