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Charles Barkley is not a fan of NCAA’s control of NIL and the transfer portal.
Barkley, 62, did not choke words as he talked about the current state of college basketball.
“NCAA, they’re a bunch of idiots and fools. They’ve ruined the sport. I don’t know how to put the toothpaste back in the tube,” Barkley said during a recent performance on Outkicks “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich.”
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College Basketball analyst Charles Barkley on the air before the NCAA men’s basketball tournament last four championship games. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
Barkley is not against college players who get paid but have trouble making sense of how much money players earn and how often players can now change schools.
“This view that you have to come up with tens of thousands of millions of dollars to pay kids to play basketball, and make them be free agents every year and transfer to another school and get more money every year. As if we’re not even getting it in NBA. Can you imagine if players in NBA should be a free agent every year?
“But this view we have to give college -kids tens of thousands of millions of dollars a year, and basketball is the worst because you only get a good player for six months. I can’t even see how you get the return on the investment.”
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January 21, 2023; Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Sun’s former player Charles Barkley present at the Footprint Center. (Mark J. Revilas-usa Today Sports)
Barkley was asked if he would ever donate to his Alma Mater, Auburn, to help his zero fund, but Basketball Hall of Famer would rather donate his money for more important reasons.
“I just gave $ 10 million to HBCUs, it’s far more important to me. I just gave a few million dollars to ‘Blight’, in my hometown Birmingham, to rebuild houses,” Barkley said.
“These things are far more important to me than participating in cesspool, there is college athletics. We are such an S —– Land, Dan. We have ruined college athletics and I will not even get in that cesspool.”
Former basketball player Charles Barkley for Auburn Tigers after their match against Tennessee -Frujle at Neville Arena on March 4, 2023 in Auburn, Alabama. (Michael Chang/Getty Images)
If even the 11th time all-star should give money to Auburns Nil Fund, he is not sure how he would get his return on the investment.
“If I give a guy three or four, five, seven, get some guys six, seven, eight million dollars, I’m not sure how I get my return on investments if he only gets to my college for a year and you probably won’t win the championship,” Barkley said.
