Duke legend Mike Krzyzewski rips current state of NCAA sports

For more than four decades, Mike ‘Coach K’ Krzyzewski made sure to keep the Duke Blue Devils either at the top of the college basketball scene or pretty close to it.

However, Father Time spares no victims, and with the college sports scene transitioning towards a new era, the legendary coach knew it was time to step down.

That’s why he left the program after 42 years and five national championships. Now, years after his departure, he opened up on how much he dislikes the current state of affairs.

Coach K says NCAA is now run like a business

“I think college basketball now is pretty much like the NBA, except there’s no transparency,” Krzyzewski said on ‘The Herd’. “In other words, you’re at one school, I’m at another. I don’t know what you’re doing for a player. You don’t know what I’m doing for a player, and it’s really professional right now, or college basketball, but the product is outstanding, and kids are staying longer because of NIL.”

Mike Krzyzewski

Of course, it only makes sense that the players get paid for the hard job they’re putting in and what they’re putting their bodies through. It wasn’t fair that only the NCAA got to profit (at least legally or publicly) from it.

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At the end of the day, you have to adapt or perish, and programs like Duke will never find much trouble finding the resources or convincing players to join them in Durham.

Ernesto Cova is a bilingual (English-Spanish) sports writer with over eight years of experience covering major leagues such as the NBA, NFL, MLB, College Basketball, and international soccer. He rejoined Bolavip US as a collaborator after initially contributing to the platform since its inception in 2020, where he also served as a sub-editor in 2023. Ernesto specializes in daily sports news, producing 100% original content that includes trade rumors, player and team rankings, and more. He holds a BA in Psychology from Universidad Central de Venezuela and has completed postgraduate studies in Sports Psychology at APDA (Argentina). Before returning to Bolavip US, he contributed to Fadeaway World and The Cold Wire, with a primary focus on the NBA.