Sen Tuberville Previews Nil Meeting With Trump, Says Democrats 'don't Care' About College Sports

The NIL activity connected Capitol Hill will person a immense push connected Thursday, arsenic some Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and erstwhile Alabama coach Nick Saban will subordinate President Donald Trump to talk regulations.

The transfer portal has tally chaotic arsenic assemblage athletes are now aiming to make arsenic overmuch money arsenic imaginable during their assemblage eligibility.

Tuberville said ideally, nan authorities would not beryllium involved, but they find themselves successful nan heavy of things and are brainstorming.

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville attends nan House and Senate committee markup of nan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 successful nan Dirksen Building connected Nov. 29, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"The 1 point we tin do is we tin make each authorities beryllium connected nan aforesaid level [for NIL money]… Now, betwixt that, we person to travel up pinch immoderate rules for transportation portals and imaginable contracts for players, each nan things that make assemblage shot nan top athletics ever. We do not want to move into insignificant convention sports. We tin do things, we conscionable gotta get it passed," he told 109.9 The Game successful Tuscaloosa connected Wednesday.

Tuberville, though, blamed Democrats for nan continued whirlwind that is nan existent ambiance of assemblage sports.

"I deliberation we tin get it connected nan floor, nan problem is getting it past a Democrat group that really wants thing to do pinch making this state better. They don't attraction astir assemblage sports aliases education, they interest astir nan powerfulness that they power successful this country. It's a difficult measurement to go, but if anybody tin get it done, it's President Trump, and hopefully we tin person immoderate chat to get connected nan correct way toward helping nan NIL and assemblage sports," he said.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville speaks to members of nan media extracurricular nan Manhattan Criminal Courthouse successful New York, connected May 13, 2024. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Tuberville besides said women’s sports, and transgender inclusion, will beryllium astatine nan forefront of nan discussion.

"There's thing much important than women's sports, women's athletics, and he stopped nan delirium of biologic men and boys successful women's sports.… We've gotta prevention Title IX, we've gotta prevention women's sports, and President Trump is nan 1 that will guidelines up and conflict for women. He's done that, he understands it, and that will beryllium successful our full chat astir NIL. If we proceed down this path, there's not gonna beryllium immoderate money left.… If we don't do thing soon, we will suffer a batch of non-revenue sports, and astir of those see women's sports."

Tuberville besides believes that if this existent scenery continues, "you're going to commencement losing fans."

Sen. Tommy Tuberville talks during a tv question and reply earlier erstwhile President Donald Trump speaks astatine Trump National Golf Club successful Bedminster, New Jersey, June 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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"Sooner aliases later, it'll impact nan fans that salary that summons not knowing who nan players are pinch nary loyalty.…" he said. "There's nary carryover aliases loyalty to schools that these fans emotion to support."

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