Coach K: Lack Of Planning Created Today's NIL Issues | 3/14/24

where is nil wow going? you said goodbye uh you know I didn't leave I didn't stop also I don't like the word leave I didn't retire leave means like I wanted to escape from something yeah um I didn't retire because of the new environment in college sports. It would have been exciting to try to adapt to that because you know in my 40s or 50s you have to keep adapting. This is the biggest adaptation I think in the history of college athletics and uh uh I and it's not uh it hasn't been coordinated you know we don't have a leader uh we don't even know who to call to a meeting to discuss what needs to be discussed. , it's been three years Now Dan and uh uh that shows the state of the NCAA three years ago and the fact that it hasn't been able to do anything in these three years and instead of complaining about what it is, just accept the fact that This is a new time and just because it's not like the old one doesn't mean it's not okay, this is what it is and we need to figure out how to make it what it is, in the best interest of everyone and, uh, me.

I think it's an exciting time if you had leadership and you were in an organization, uh, to embrace it, but nothing was supposed to be a recruiting tool, no, no, you're right, but that's what it's become, because there wasn't one. guidelines in other words, we should have anticipated zero the anticipated consequences of zero are pure, you know, you know, a young man gets because of his abilities, his talents, he gets different opportunities, that's good, you know, that's really good, but what what we have done is form collectives and pay the players basically, hey, this is how it is now if there was a plan, there has never been a plan, you know, as a result, uh entrepre, the entrepreneurial spirit of our country, of our people, leads to unintentional.

The consequences I don't know are necessarily bad, maybe we should have gotten there already, but instead of bringing everything back, let's say this is where it is now, how can we organize it? How can it be transparent? You know, yeah I ran the Knicks and I ran the Celtics I know what I know your pace I know what I know everything and you in college sports don't know that there's no transparency I don't think that's a good thing because then I don't I don't trust you, you know that you don't trust me, but what you're saying has to be transparent, you have to know what Clemson or Notre Dame is spending, that allows us in some way, yes, we can create and maybe I can't.

I think we could do that, but if not, what is the model? Do you know what model we have? It's the NCA calling you right now

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, yeah, it's my agent saying what I'm doing, what I'm doing in this program. Are you ruining your ability to attract people? No, you know, you know, the transparent thing. I think it's good for kids to earn money. Know. I think it's good. We should just know how much they are earning. somehow we should know and in some ways they are independent contractors, you know, yeah, and people say, do we bring them all under one umbrella and does the university pay for them?

It's a competition, it's complicated, but that's what leadership should consider. You know, that's what big companies do, that's what countries do, that's what you know, but who's doing that, you know, so you don't have faith in the NCAA right now, well, I haven't I've had faith in the NCAA for a long time and I just want to clarify that, but what I believe is that the NCAA is a really good organization. What the NCAA does best is organize championships for divisions one, two and three and they execute them in an outstanding way, there's probably a level of uh. of rules or something to keep us all together, which we could have, but you know, Charlie Baker has posted, maybe there should be this Elite division or basically say what's going to do well for football, let's find out what's going to do football. do and if there is going to be another division, what effect will that have on the other three divisions?

In other words, you don't throw things away without saying it. If they do this, it will lead to this, yes, yes, no good. It makes sense to me and we spend a lot of time trying to get Congress to protect us in terms of antitrust and some of that is good, I think, but that's the purpose, if we protect, let's go back to the old structure, I think. We should restructure the NCAA, we should restructure the university into ICS and then figure this out, figure this out, figure out what's going on in the NCAA in their transformation committees and all of these committees are inundated with compliance people who are rules-oriented and You're good at that, I have 10 rules and I'm going to make you obey them or I'm going to punish you, that's not what we should do now, we should be uh, an entrepreneur doesn't think that way and the way they should be entrepreneurs because they have this asset worth a billion dollars that should be worth more if they traded it better and it's a treasure, it's what makes the inle called the NCAA tournament and we're in it right now. because it started with all the conference tournaments to see who gets in