Dick Vitale said university basketball has an “important problem” with void and the transfer portal.
Vitale, 85, discussed the state of university basketball during a recent appearance in “Don’t @ Me with Dakich” by Outkick.
“I think we have chaos in university basketball. Total chaos. Stability is out of place. It’s a wild west. Do you know in a day of the portal’s opening, which should never, never open during the heart of the NCAA tournament, is a joke?” Vitale said.
“But the conclusion is that Miles entered the portal, and ask: ‘How much money will I get?’ Everyone is chasing the dollars.
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ESPN Dick Vitale analyst before a game between Tennessee volunteers and Alabama’s crimson tide in Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center on March 1, 2025. (Randy Sartin/Imagn images)
“I recently played. A child (played in) four schools. Four schools. What is happening? I don’t know your feelings, but I think the transfer portal and the void need some rules. They need some rules. You know it is the best free agency at this time at this time, even if you are a professional athlete. You are a professional athlete, you have a contract. You should make contracts with the children, so you can not leave that. “
While Vitale is concerned about the transfer and zero portal, he said the players deserve to make money.
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Dick Vitale in Coleman Coliseum for a basketball game between Alabama and Kentucky on February 22, 2025. (Gary Cosby Jr./tuscaloosa News)
“I think this, you know, the conclusion is that there is no doubt that the players deserve some money with the cash that is being done. But I thought it was basically going to be, you make a commercial, they appear, they pay you. Never in my wildest dreams … but millions of dollars, millions,” Vitale said.
“And what happened there, take a look at Dulce 16. Not a team, in the middle of the main ones, has an opportunity, actually. Due to dollars, null dollars, the greats will dominate absolutely.”
Vitale trained at the University of Detroit and talked about how, if Nil existed, then his best players may not have stayed.
Dick Vitale attends the 2022 ESPY awards at the Dolby Theater on July 20, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Leon Bennett/Getty images)
“I was telling people when I was in Detroit, we were quite well, man. We won 21 followed. We beat Marquette. We were national champions the year we won them on their court. We hit Arizona. We beat some good teams,” Vitale said.
“We had about four NBA players who were in my program. When I’m thinking about Terry Tyler, John Long sitting, but those guys would have gone. They would have gone to Michigan, Michigan state, Indiana. They would have gone because we could never have the dollars to pay them. Then, I really believe, we had an important problem.”
