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Arkansa’s Razorbacks coach John Calipari has a solution to improve college basketball.
Since Nil has taken over collegial sports, players have the ability to make money on their name, image and equality. NCAA allows bachelor athletes to transfer and be immediately eligible for competition, no matter how many times a player has transferred.
Between NIL and the looser transfer rules, the player movement is higher than ever, as players are free to pursue more lucrative zero offers after each season.
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Arkansas Razorback’s main coach John Calipari looks under the NCAA tournament West Regional Practice at the Chase Center in San Francisco, California, March 26, 2025. (Eakin Howard/Imag images)
Calipari, 66, talked about a potential solution that could help solve the problems brought to by Nil and the transfer portal during a performance on Outkicks “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich.”
“You have five years to play and you can play all five. But if you get hurt twice, you got buzzard luck,” Calipari told Dakich.
Calipari’s solution allows for two transfers. The first transfer you can play right away at your new school, but if a player had to transfer another time they should sit out. Sitting out in one season would be expensive as the players under Calipari’s suggestions have a maximum of five player seasons.
“If you want to transfer once, go ahead, you transfer another time and sit out, it’s going to cut one of your years, but you can do it. And then you play at a school three years, you get your college exam,” Calipari said.
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Arkansas Razorback’s main coach John Calipari addresses the media at a press conference during the NCAA tournament West Regional Practice in Chase Center in San Francisco, California, March 26, 2025. (Kyle Terada/Imag images)
“This is fair, it makes sense. Come on, why don’t we do these things? We don’t need the government to tell us (that), let’s do it.”
Calipari said that if something that his proposal is not implemented in the next three to five years, NCAA will dissolve.
“If it’s not, all this will break down, you won’t have any NCAA that I called for about 10 years ago, 12 years ago, and I was right on the money because they run out of people to pee, they got no one else to pee,” said Calipari.
This year’s four-time SEC coach said NCAA is losing any trial against them.
“Every suit they’ve had, what’s going on with them? Any time they’re sued, what?” Asked Calipari.
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Arkansas Razorback’s main coach John Calipari instructs the game Downcourt during the first half against Texas Tech Red Raiders during a Western regional semi -final in the 2025 NCAA Tournament at the Chase Center in San Francisco, California, March 27, 2025. (Kyle Terada/Imag images)
“They lose,” Dakich replied.
“Why? Because (NCAA is) not fair. The Supreme Court voted 9-0 against them, do you know that the last time the Supreme Court was together for something? It was like bus back in the sixties.”
The Supreme Court gave 9-0 in 2021 in NCAA against Alston, determining that NCAA’s rules that limited educational benefits for student athletes violated federal antitrust laws. The order opened the door for Nil to enter college athletics.
Calipari is ready to enter his second season in Arkansas and has coached College Basketball for 33 seasons.
He began his main training career at Umass for seven seasons, then spent nine seasons in Memphis, 15 seasons in Kentucky and then went to Arkansas before the 2024-25 season.
Arkansas Razorbacks Lord’s Basketball Head coach John Calipari is introduced during a timeout in the first quarter against Notre Dame fighting in Irish on Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on September 27, 2025. (Nelson Chenault/Imag images)
Calipari won the NCAA championship with Kentucky in 2011-12 and has taken six different teams for Final Four.
Last season with Arkansas, Calipari went 22-14 and made the NCAA tournament, but was knocked out in Sweet 16.
Calipari’s full interview with Dakich will be released on Outkick on Thursday.
