Tommy Tuberville remains on the push for some version of national NIL regulation. In the process, the former college football head coach turned senator took a shot at Indiana and Curt Cignetti’s Hoosiers.

While Tuberville claims he is not against players making money, he wants to make sure it can be done “the right way.” He also referenced teams being able to build programs like in the past.

“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,” said Tuberville via Michael Casagrande with AL.com. “Not just haphazardly every year going out and buying a new player, new football team every year.”

Tuberville especially bemoaned quick turnarounds via massive roster overhauls in the era of the transfer portal. And it was Indiana who somehow received his sternest comments.

“And so it takes a different mentality coaching because you just don’t build a team. You pretty much buy a team now,” Tuberville said. “And that was a little bit forbidden when I was in coaching, but now it’s legal. Look at Indiana. They went out and bought them a football team, and look where they’re at.”

Tuberville’s comments are particularly out of touch, especially considering the makeup of Indiana’s roster. Yes, the Hoosiers brought in 31 transfers during the offseason and NIL may have been involved, but it was far from a group with heavy suitors across the country.

A whopping 13 players from Indiana’s transfer class came from James Madison, a move that allowed that group to follow Cignetti from his former job to Bloomington. That group has been key for Indiana, but other suitors from top programs were likely not in play.

Kurtis Rourke is arguably the most important player on Indiana’s roster, but even the star quarterback was not among the most-coveted players in the portal. Rourke spent the first 5 seasons of his career in the MAC at Ohio.

That’s not to say NIL regulation is not needed, but it’s unconscious for Tuberville to target Indiana’s roster more than anyone else in the current landscape.