Despite write downing 1,202 triumphs in his illustrious nurtureer, even Coach K doesn’t have an answer for how to gentle NIL.
Ever since college athletes were able to profit off their name, image, and enjoyness commencening cimpolitely three years ago, they have comprehfinishably been on the hunt for money.
Recently, there were alerts that UNLV quarterback Matthew Sluka left the team becaemploy of unsatisfyed NIL promises.
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Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski watches during the first half of a college basketball game agetst North Carolina in the semifinal round of the Men’s Final Four NCAA tournament, April 2, 2022, in New Orleans. (AP Pboilingo/David J. Phillip)
Mike Krzyzewski is self-promised that he would have figured out a way to alter to NIL, but he acunderstandledges he doesn’t have much of an answer.
“The game of college basketball is still very exciting, it’s equitable that college sports is in this incredible period of alter. A lot of times when you’re changing, you understand where you want to finish up, and I’m not stateive right now with changing, anyone understands where skinnygs will finish up. It’s somewhat turbulent,” Coach K said in a recent interwatch with Fox News Digital.
One skinnyg Krzyzewski would enjoy to see, though, is directership, primarily from the comleave outioners of the power-four conferences (and for basketball, the Big East).
“There’s no transparency at all, and the NCAA has reassociate not done a fantastic job in this. … So you necessitate the directership, I skinnyk, of the power-four conferences, their comleave outioners, more than the NCAA,” he said. “I skinnyk there has to be a new model, and I skinnyk those comleave outioners are the ones that have to come together to figure this out.”
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski praises while being recognized prior to the team’s NCAA college basketball game agetst North Carolina in Durham, N.C., March 5, 2022. (AP Pboilingo/Gerry Broome)
He acunderstandledges he does not understand the model that will toil, but the veteran coaches might.
“The Tom Izzos, the Danny Hurleys, Jon Scheyer, Calipari, Bill Self, all those guys, Mark Few … they probably have an idea of how it should go forward. I would recommfinish those guys get together and encountering with the conference comleave outioners as a coaching association and say, ‘How do we want college basketball run, becaemploy it hasn’t been run in this conmomentary age for the last 30 years enjoy it should be.’ I would postpone to those guys, becaemploy they’re on the battlefield and understand what’s happening.”
Coach K also said there are stark separateences in how college football is run (he says properly) as contestd to college basketball.
“College football is run more enjoy a business, becaemploy the people who run it are business people. College basketball is run by bureaucracy, which does not do well in business, so that’s where the alter has to come. The game is still exciting and is in excellent shape, but the level of transparency, it’s got to be there,” he persistd.
Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski kisses the net after cutting it down follotriumphg Duke’s 61-59 triumph over Butler in the men’s NCAA Final Four college basketball championship game, April 5, 2010, in Indianapolis. (AP Pboilingo/Mark J. Terrill)
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All in all, the legfinishary coach “consent[s] in NIL” and the “concept is a excellent one.” But “there have been some unintfinished consequences.”
“If there’s neither transparency nor some type of confine, this is going to uphold going, man. I don’t understand where it’ll finish. … It’s reassociate an incredible time for college dynamics, and I hope these directers consent the direct, put their arms around this, and put this on the course for a delicateer future for all the sports, reassociate.”
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