Charles Barkley calls NCAA a 'bunch of idiots and fools' amid current NIL landscape

Charles Barkley is not a instrumentality of the NCAA’s absorption of NIL and the transportation portal. 

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

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

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

Barkley isn’t opposed to assemblage players getting paid, but has occupation making consciousness arsenic to however overmuch wealth players are making, and however often players tin present power schools. 

"This conception that you person to travel up with tens of millions of dollars to wage kids to play basketball, and person them beryllium escaped agents each twelvemonth and transportation to different schoolhouse and get much wealth each year. Like, we don't adjacent get to bash that successful the NBA. Can you ideate if players successful the NBA got to beryllium a escaped cause each year? I'm not opposed to players getting paid, I privation to marque that clear," Barkley said. 

"But, this conception we gotta springiness assemblage kids tens of millions of dollars a year, and hoops is the worst, due to the fact that you're lone gonna get a large subordinate for six months. I don't adjacent spot however you're gonna get the instrumentality connected investment."

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Barkley was asked whether helium would ever donate to his alma mater, Auburn, to assistance its NIL fund, but the Basketball Hall of Famer would alternatively donate his wealth to much important causes. 

"I conscionable gave 10 cardinal dollars to HBCU's, that worldly is mode 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 mode much important to maine than joining the cesspool that is assemblage athletics. We're specified a s----- country, Dan. We person ruined assemblage athletics, and I don't wanna adjacent get successful that cesspool."

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

If adjacent the 11-time All-Star were to springiness wealth to Auburn's NIL fund, helium isn’t definite however helium would get his instrumentality connected investment. 

"If I springiness a feline 3 oregon four, five, seven, immoderate guys are getting six, seven, 8 cardinal dollars, I'm not definite however I get my instrumentality connected concern if he's lone going to beryllium astatine my assemblage for 1 year, and you're astir apt not going to triumph the championship," Barkley said.

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