Charles Barkley tears into NCAA for present NIL panorama: ‘Ruined the game’

Charles Barkley shouldn’t be a fan of the NCAA’s administration of NIL and the switch portal. 

Barkley, 62, didn’t mince phrases when speaking concerning the present state of faculty basketball. 

“The NCAA, they’re a bunch of idiots and fools. They’ve ruined the game. I do not know the way you place the toothpaste again into the tube,” Barkley stated throughout a current look on OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich.”

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School basketball analyst Charles Barkley on air earlier than the NCAA Males’s Basketball Match Last 4 championship sport. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Pictures)

Barkley isn’t opposed to school gamers getting paid, however has bother making sense as to how a lot cash gamers are making, and the way ceaselessly gamers can now swap faculties. 

“This notion that it’s a must to give you tens of tens of millions of {dollars} to pay youngsters to play basketball, and have them be free brokers yearly and switch to a different college and get more cash yearly. Like, we do not even get to do this within the NBA. Are you able to think about if gamers within the NBA acquired to be a free agent yearly? I am not against gamers getting paid, I need to make that clear,” Barkley stated. 

“However, this notion we gotta give school youngsters tens of tens of millions of {dollars} a 12 months, and basketball is the worst, since you’re solely gonna get an incredible participant for six months. I do not even see the way you’re gonna get the return on funding.”

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Jan. 21, 2023; Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Suns former participant Charles Barkley in attendance at Footprint Middle. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports activities)

Barkley was requested whether or not he would ever donate to his alma mater, Auburn, to assist its NIL fund, however the Basketball Corridor of Famer would somewhat donate his cash to extra necessary causes. 

“I simply gave 10 million {dollars} to HBCU’s, that stuff is far more necessary to me. I simply gave a pair million {dollars} to ‘Blight’, in my hometown of Birmingham, to rebuild homes,” Barkley stated. 

“That stuff is far more necessary to me than becoming a member of the cesspool that’s school athletics. We’re such a s—– nation, Dan. We’ve got ruined school athletics, and I do not wanna even get in that cesspool.”

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Former basketball participant Charles Barkley for the Auburn Tigers after their sport in opposition to the Tennessee Volunteers at Neville Enviornment on March 4, 2023, in Auburn, Alabama. (Michael Chang/Getty Pictures)

If even the 11-time All-Star had been to offer cash to Auburn’s NIL fund, he isn’t positive how he would get his return on funding. 

“If I give a man three or 4, 5, seven, some guys are getting six, seven, eight million {dollars}, I am unsure how I get my return on funding if he is solely going to be at my school for one 12 months, and also you’re most likely not going to win the championship,” Barkley stated.

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