Last week, President Trump came out with his highly anticipated Executive Order on college sports which is aimed to curb player eligibility and movement issues within the sport, something which has become deeply unpopular among the fanbase.

A week prior, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) introduced legislation which would essentially make the guidelines in Trump’s Executive Order permanent in what he was calling the Student-Athlete Act.

“College athletics used to be about education, now it’s sadly all about making money,” Sen. Tuberville said in announcing the Student-Athlete Act.

“We can’t be having 25-year-old ‘students’ who graduated three years ago still competing in the NCAA. With my bill, a student-athlete gets five years to get their education, compete, and then move on. We also have to make sure students are getting a good education, which won’t happen if they are transferring every year. I’m all for student-athletes making money, but we have to create some national guidelines as the current system is broken. I look forward to working with my colleagues to get this commonsense bill across the finish line.”

“Glad to see President Trump take action to fix the broken transfer portal that’s ruining college sports,” Tuberville wrote on X after the EO was announced.

“I introduced the Student-Athlete Act last week. My bill would make the EO permanent. College athletes should get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons and 1 free transfer. After that, if you transfer, you sit out a year. It’s simple. I look forward to my bill being brought to a vote soon.”

Where things go from here remains to be seen, but seeing Trump and Tuberville take steps to try to fix a clearly broken system has to be encouraging for fans who are fed up with the way things have become over the last half decade.