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Charles Barkley is not a fan of the management of the NCA NCAA and the transfer portal.
Barkley, 62, has not chosen words by speaking of the current state of university basketball.
“The NCAA is a bunch of idiots and fools. They ruined sport. I don’t know how you put the toothpaste in the tube,” said Barkley during a recent appearance on “Don’t @ me with Dan Dakich d’Outkick”.
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The university basketball analyst Charles Barkley in difficulty before the championship match of the male basketball tournament of the NCAA. (Mitchell Layton / Getty images)
Barkley is not opposed to college players who are paid, but find it difficult to give meaning to the amount of money that players earn and at the frequency of players who can now change schools.
“This idea that you have to find tens of millions of dollars to pay children to play basketball, and make them free agents each year and transfer to another school and get more money each year. As, we cannot even do this in the NBA. Can you imagine if the players in the NBA must be a free agent every year?
“But, this notion that we must give the college students tens of millions of dollars a year, and basketball is the worst, because you will only get a great player for six months. I do not even see how you will get the return on investment.”
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January 21, 2023; Phoenix, Arizona: the former Phoenix Suns player, Charles Barkley, present at Footprint Center. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY SPORTS)
We asked Barkley if he would give his Alma Mater, Auburn, to help his Nile fund, but the temple of basketball renown prefers to give money to greater causes.
“I just gave $ 10 million to the HBCU, this thing is much more important for me. I just gave a few million dollars to” Blight “, in my hometown of Birmingham, to rebuild houses,” said Barkley.
“This thing is much more important for me than to join the cesspool that is university athletics. We are such a country —-, dan. We have ruined university athletics, and I do not even want to enter this sump.”
Former basketball player Charles Barkley for the Auburn Tigers after their match against Tennessee volunteers in Neville Arena on March 4, 2023, in Auburn, in Alabama. (Michael Chang / Getty Images)
If even the 11 times All-Star were to give money to the Nile d’Auburn fund, he does not know how he would get his return on investment.
“If I give a guy three or four, five, seven, some guys have six, seven, eight million dollars, I do not know how I receive my return on investment if only in my college for a year, and you are probably not going to win the championship,” said Barkley.
