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Charles Barkley is not a fan of the NCAA of NIL management and the transfer portal.
Barkley, 62, did not put words when he talked about the current state of university basketball.
“The NCAA, are a lot of idiots and dumb. They have ruined the sport. I don’t know how you put the toothpaste in the tube again,” Barkley said during a recent appearance in “No, with Dan Dakich” from Outkick.
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Charles Barkley University Basketball Analyst in the air before the Final Four Championship game of the Four Four Tournament of the NCAA. (Mitchell Layton/Getty images)
Barkley does not oppose university players to receive a payment, but it has problems making sense how much money the players are earning and how often players can now change school.
“This notion that you have to find dozens of millions of dollars to pay children to play basketball, and make them free agents every year and transfer to another school and get more money every year. As, we can’t even do that in the NBA. Can you imagine if NBA players can be a free agent every year? I am not opposite to the players who pay me, I want to clarify it.”
“But, this notion we have to give university children dozens of millions of dollars a year, and basketball is the worst, because it will only get a great player for six months. I don’t even see how you will get the return on investment.”
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January 21, 2023; Phoenix, Arizona: former Phoenix player Suns Charles Barkley present at Footprint Center. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA Today Sports)
Barkley was asked if he would ever donate his alma mater, Auburn, to help his zero fund, but the member of the Basketball Hall of Fame would prefer to donate his money to more important causes.
“I just gave HBCU dollars, those things are much more important to me. I just gave a couple of millions of dollars to ‘Blight’, in my hometown of Birmingham, to rebuild the houses,” said Barkley.
“That is much more important for me than to join Cesspool that is university athletics. We are such a country —-, they give. We have ruined university athletics, and I don’t even want to enter that Cesco well.”
Former basketball player Charles Barkley for the Auburn Tigers after his match against Tennessee volunteers at Neville Arena on March 4, 2023 in Auburn, Alabama. (Michael Chang/Getty Images)
If even 11 times there would give money to the Nil de Auburn fund, you are not sure how its return on investment would get.
“If I give a boy three or four, five, seven, some boys get six, seven, eight million dollars, I am not sure how I get my return on the investment if it will only be in my university for a year, and probably will not win the championship,” Barkley said.
