Charles Barkley Calls Ncaa A 'bunch Of Idiots And Fools' Amid Current Nil Landscape

Charles Barkley is not a instrumentality of nan NCAA’s management of NIL and nan transportation portal. 

Barkley, 62, didn’t mince words erstwhile talking astir nan existent authorities of assemblage basketball. 

"The NCAA, they’re a bunch of idiots and fools. They person ruined nan sport. I don't cognize really you put nan toothpaste backmost into nan tube," Barkley said during a caller quality connected OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me pinch Dan Dakich."

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College hoops expert Charles Barkley connected aerial earlier nan NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Final Four title game. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

Barkley isn’t opposed to college players getting paid, but has problem making consciousness arsenic to really overmuch money players are making, and really often players tin now move schools. 

"This conception that you person to travel up pinch tens of millions of dollars to salary kids to play basketball, and person them beryllium free agents each twelvemonth and transportation to different schoolhouse and get much money each year. Like, we don't moreover get to do that successful nan NBA. Can you ideate if players successful nan NBA sewage to beryllium a free supplier each year? I'm not opposed to players getting paid, I want to make that clear," Barkley said. 

"But, this conception we gotta springiness assemblage kids tens of millions of dollars a year, and hoops is nan worst, because you're only gonna get a awesome subordinate for six months. I don't moreover spot really you're gonna get nan return connected investment."

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Jan. 21, 2023; Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Suns erstwhile subordinate Charles Barkley successful attendance astatine Footprint Center. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)

Barkley was asked whether he would ever donate to his alma mater, Auburn, to thief its NIL fund, but nan Basketball Hall of Famer would alternatively donate his money to much important causes. 

"I conscionable gave 10 cardinal dollars to HBCU's, that worldly is measurement much important to me. I conscionable gave a couple million dollars to ‘Blight’, successful my hometown of Birmingham, to rebuild houses," Barkley said. 

"That worldly is measurement much important to maine than joining nan cesspool that is assemblage athletics. We're specified a s----- country, Dan. We person ruined assemblage athletics, and I don't wanna moreover get successful that cesspool."

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Former hoops subordinate Charles Barkley for nan Auburn Tigers aft their crippled against nan Tennessee Volunteers astatine Neville Arena connected March 4, 2023, successful Auburn, Alabama. (Michael Chang/Getty Images)

If moreover nan 11-time All-Star were to springiness money to Auburn's NIL fund, he isn’t judge really he would get his return connected investment. 

"If I springiness a feline 3 aliases four, five, seven, immoderate guys are getting six, seven, 8 cardinal dollars, I'm not judge really I get my return connected finance if he's only going to beryllium astatine my assemblage for 1 year, and you're astir apt not going to triumph nan championship," Barkley said.

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