Dick Vitale said that college basketball has a “big problem” with zero and transfer portal.
Vitale, 85, discussed the State College Basketball during a recent performance on Outkicks “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich.”
“I think we’ve got chaos in college -basketball. Total chaos. Stability is out of whack. It’s Wild West. You know on a day after the portal opening, which should never be opened under the heart of the NCAA tournament, it’s a joke,” Vitale said.
“But the bottom line is over a thousand entered the portal and they ask, ‘How much money should I get?’ Everyone chases bucks.
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ESPN analyst Dick Vitale before a game between Tennessee Volunteers and Alabama Crimson Tide in the Thompson-Boling Arena in Food City Center March 1, 2025. (Randy Sartin/Imag- Pictures)
“I made a game recently. A child (played at) four schools. Four schools. What’s going on? I don’t know your feelings, but I think the transfer portal and zero need some rules. They need some rules. You know it’s the best free agency right now in all sports, even if you’re a pro -athlete. quickly. “
While vital is concerned about the transfer portal and zero, he said players deserve to make money.
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Dick Vitale at Coleman Coliseum for a basketball match between Alabama and Kentucky February 22, 2025. (Gary Cosby Jr./tuscaloosa News)
“I think this knows that the bottom line is that there is no doubt that players deserve some money with the cash that earns. But I thought it would basically be, you make a commercial, you get a look you get paid for it. I never have in my wildest dreams … but millions of dollars, millions,” vital.
“And what happened out there, look at Sweet 16. Not a team, in the middle of Major, really has one more chance. Due to the dollar’s zero dollars wants the big guys absolutely dominate.”
Vital coached at the University of Detroit and talked about how his best players, whose zero existed, may not have been.
Dick Vitale participates in the 2022 ESPY Awards at the Dolby Theater 20 July 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Leon Bennett/Getty Images)
“I told people when I was in Detroit, we were pretty good, man. We won 21 in a row. We beat Marquette. We were national champs the year, we beat them in their court. We beat Arizona. We beat some good teams,” Vitale said.
“We had some four NBA players who were in my program. When I think of Terry Tyler, John Long was sitting out, but these guys would have been gone. They would have gone to Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana. They would have been gone because we could never ever have dollars to pay them. So I really think we had a big problem.”
