College Basketball Insider explains why Tony Bennett retired: Impact of NIL & Transfer Portal

[@DanO12345]

Lifetime Tarheel fan. Nothing but respect for Tony and how he does it! Enjoy your retirement!

[@jodywingfield2515]

Class act! We will miss him. Thanks for having him for as long as we did.

[@DR-qd7go]

Tony Bennett is an absolute class act - both in victory and defeat.

[@sheilacrabtree5993]

I am a tarheel. But Tony has been a great coach for UVA. We hated to see Roy Williams step down for basically the same reason. Also coach K at duke.

[@skepticalsmurf]

same(class 1985)the colleges/NCAA have only themselves to blame for the current state of college athletics,with the amount of 💰coming into the conferences,the students should have been compensated for their efforts with some sort of stipend decades ago,and now it’s a complete mess 🤔

[@jclemons121384]

​@skepticalsmurf I think it's more of the media markets that have ruined this. Then COVID came along and put a real light on how essential college sports are to tv and the colleges. The NCAA had no choice because at that time, the players assumed all of the leverage.

[@DanDukeFan4Life]

Well, Roy and Coach K were a bit older but I agree it’s weird all the coaches are retiring

[@waldolydecker8118]

Bullshit excuses from Bennett...workplace rules/practices change ALL THE TIME in industry and business.....successful leaders adapt and remain successful; they don't whine and make excuses. As soon as the players - who generate all the billions in revenue - begin to get their Constitutional fair share decades after everyone else was getting both their fair share AND the players - these old guys quit. It was OK when the rules allowed only them to rake in the millions, but now its sour grapes when the revenue generators finally can get their fair share. C ya, crybaby.

[@herbcanter2114]

@@waldolydecker8118 Players should be happy with getting an education and the talented ones get education for free . Expecting tp be paid on top of that is absurdity . If the players are good enough they will make millions when they get to the NBA . Whatever happened to playing college sports for the enjoyment of playing a sport while you get an education . That's the way it should be .

[@soar011belize]

Old school coaches are tough on their players and rightfully so but with NIL and the transfer portal they can’t be players can easily leave. Coaches would rather leave than tiptoe around their players

[@jman1562001]

Yeah and I wonder how team continuity and success will be affected. When BMOC got big time NIL money underachieve and don't live up to the hype how will teams adapt. With money 💰 involved players aren't incentived to work with the team if things don't go their way, they can easily walk out the door. The portal will be flooded and lots of guys left to the wayside.

[@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13]

They should be able to leave easily. The coaches and everyone else can.

[@sandyjessee8628]

Coach Bennett is a class act! Excellent role model for the players, student body and all of his fans!!!!⚔️💙🧡⚔️

[@cathleanjohnson675]

So sad to see Coach Bennett go, college athletics is a different world now, will always remember that magicall run to the 2019 championship, a class act not to mention handsome, best wishes Coach..

[@omazz1965]

Probably drove Saban out 5 years earlier as well

[@Commentleaver-c6x]

You know it’s bad to give up $3 million a year just to coach a basketball team..

[@that_dude_dev8284]

Yea I agree. It all needs to be cleaned it. This is going to get ugly if they don’t slow it down completely.

[@JessMerrickOnline]

As Billy Beane says “Adapt or die”

[@henrygettler339]

Tony Bennett is by far in my top 5 coaches in men's college basketball division I. He is in my Bill Self and Jay Wright club!!!! He coached basketball in such a pure academic and fundamental way! I would love to have him in my gym teaching me his style and system. Top notch!!!!!

[@herbcanter2114]

Bill self is not in that club he's always been a cheater.

[@henrygettler339]

@@herbcanter2114 Let me guess and u think Coach K, and J. Thompson, K. Sampson, R. Williams and countless others haven't offered to other recruits? Self was busted and the players didn't play for program and they had paid the NCAAs BS price for BS allegations. The other did it as well...(look up Zion going to duke)...now they all get handouts it is legal cause NCAA new it was gonna have to hand out countless infraction unless they changed that rule.

[@assassssasa]

Tony Bennett is sounding the alarm College athletics have a big problem

[@Commentleaver-c6x]

I don’t think college sports will exist in a few years.

[@RobertMJohnson]

@@Commentleaver-c6x what?

[@Commentleaver-c6x]

@@RobertMJohnson they will be professional athletes working for and paid by the universities. They basically are now in football and basketball. Most of the Olympic sports will go by the wayside when they have to start paying them too.

[@RobertMJohnson]

@@Commentleaver-c6x they have been paid for for decades. you're just mentioning that it will evolve and/or get worse

[@jman1562001]

Yes we are already seeing college basketball and football have numerous conference alignment changes. Their will soon be basically semi pro league which may or may not be run by the NCAA with pay performance scales and agent activity. It does make me wonder if the Tournament as it exist will be around either. NCAA mid and low majors will be the one league with semi pros on the other. Idk how collective bargaining would work since college players are on campus for a short period and may not be willing to bargain as a group when each individual could theoretically get a higher cut out the situation

[@bebopkirby]

Total guess on why he’s leaving. UVA can’t compete in the long run with schools with deeper pockets, which is basically the same thing as how college football is run. This is why he had to dance all around the subject. The give away was when he mentioned the sport becoming more pro like, and the need for limits and balance in a system where the rich schools are simply buying championships. He wanted to continue coaching because he believed in his abilities with amateur players, but he finally decided UVA was never going to have the resources other schools have.

[@slickwilly6868]

It sickens me that these coaches are upset that these kids can finally get paid. My opinion is that the money needs to be put in a trust fund and the athlete can only live on a stipend(Enough to buy a reliable car, rent an apartment in a nice area, pay bills and groceries)while the rest builds up in the trust fund and they can only get it when they graduate.

[@lafayettedickens6236]

It's a new day and it requires a new way. The guys who can't or don't want to adapt will bail out until the game is left with those who can successfully navigate their way around in this big money environment.

[@TheNichq]

Wrong. You will be left with shitty coaches. You will also be left with less fans, which is already happening. People no longer care about college sports, and its only going to get worse.

[@gturcott1]

I just wonder if Pitino will be able to adjust to this new era. He is such a man of principle

[@skepticalsmurf]

😅

[@zplapplap]

😂🤣😆

[@joshmcbroom9391]

Now It's Legal.

[@thetruth1635]

😂😂😂😂😂.

[@MSD-c2g]

ABSOLUTELY COACH!

[@BigMack392]

Jim Boeheim, former and well-respected head coach for many years at Syracuse, makes a very canny observation about the emerging situation with men's college basketball. How will this affect the athletes? I would add this: how will this affect the fans? Are we not also part of this sport? Is our perspective on this of value? Making college sports into something very much akin to pro sports introduces many possible pitfalls. Further in depth evaluation of this new direction is essential, I believe, to uncover the potential negatives and find ways to mitigate them.

[@bpeterson2473]

College sports is in a bad way. Coach Bennett is such a class act and you will see the best coaches quitting just like Bennett. The actual professional leagues have more guardrails and rules than college

[@Gregg-f1d]

Virginia can't compete NIL.

[@Teeman44]

What a shocking retirement. College basketball is losing one of the top coaches. I think Coach Bennett would be an excellent broadcaster for ESPN or CBS. I also wonder if he wants to give NBA a shot.

[@shanepleasants6280]

I understand why he retired but I lost respect for him because of the timing he just signed an extension in June so to retire two weeks before season is mind boggling he should have coached this yea then stepped down if this send the basketball program back to the dark ages it severely hinders his legacy

[@johngreen2510]

Very selfish act

[@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13]

Blame the schools and conferences for their greed. The Pac 12 is dead because of greed at these schools. If there weren’t billions of dollars in TV deals, the athletes would be asking for stipends for a cheeseburger and not multi-million dollar deals. No one wants to talk about that part. They simply want to control athletes.

[@Dashi26]

Said once and I'll say it again, the NIL is/will ruin college basketball. Damn shame

[@EdWallace-ir8vz]

There are no more student athletes.....its the wild west

[@lcchill]

I don’t feel bad for any of these coaches or schools. These coaches had no problem when these athletes were not getting paid and they did not advocate for them to get paid. Cry me a river!!

[@DaFadeRunna]

@@lcchill Facts! Then they diss and say shyt like “The game isn’t the same”

[@mikeshaw4610]

If he just gutted through his players would have known something was wrong and probably not responded the same.

[@hustlecrowe9440]

He really screwed over all those players. I hope they quit the team.

[@joeymiddleton5821]

tony tired of u bums

[@JP-pu1cx]

Like those players have any loyalty.

[@natnaelberhanu-i8w]

He’ll probably come out of retirement three years later.

[@ronniebilinsky1459]

THEY HAVE DESTROYED COLLEGE ATHLETICS ...THO I BELIEVE THE PLAYERS SHOULD BE COMPENSATED FROM ALL THE TV MONEY THEY PRODUCE

[@TheDeadlyKnight]

This dude just won the tournament like, 5 years ago!

[@randysimpson8745]

Tip top reporting saying exactly the same thing Bennett said at the press conference. College basketball is not college basketball anymore, it ain't complicated. It is professional basketball. It sucks...

[@marquesmurray]

Without contracts and control. Its AAU. With more money.

[@Seance86]

He speak-ah the truth. college athletics is a mess and the NCAA doesn't have their sh*t together as usual....1 step forward 2 steps back. One day some day 🤷

[@fdavidmiller2]

Next coach up. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@squishymcsquisherson]

This didn't need explanation. He's another title winning, possible HOF coach, run out of the game cuz they don't wanna deal with unregulated, transactional basketball. The Portal and the NIL are a joke. We've now lost Roy Williams, Mike Krzyzewski, Jay Wright, Jim Boheim and Tony Bennett cuz the sport is a joke. And that's just basketball. NCAA got sick of people crying about transfer rules and players not getting paid and said "F'K IT" and swung the door open to appease everyone. Until there are parameters in place, more and more legendary coaches, from both basketball AND football will continue to piss on this, it's not worth it and not why we got into coaching at this level.

[@phillipcotton833]

I could NOT have expressed my opinion any better. Well said!! 👏 👏

[@adamsaben3299]

No brainer. 100% correct. NCAA and the courts ruined college sports and these are the casualties.

[@southwestrunner6384]

You nailed it

[@michaelharrington8401]

You have summed the situation up perfectly.

[@KennethGreenCMP]

The highest paid professor on campus doesn't make 3 million a year. Would he do his job for 200K?

[@henrygettler339]

There are another 20 coaches whom will get run out of the college game soon!!!!

[@waldolydecker8118]

In nature they call it survival of the fittest. If old geezers set in their ways refuse to adapt to change, they should leave.....just like animals do in nature. Change happens in business and industry - especially in the tech world - literally daily. Successful workers have to adapt and thrive with change....no sympathy for these overpaid whining coaches blaming the game because they refuse to change. Better to just move on and shut up whining and blaming others.

[@JP-pu1cx]

@@waldolydecker8118 Now we have overpaid whining ,entitled players who will have great careers over seas.

[@jeffl440]

This is a big loss for college basketball.

[@carseye1219]

The sport will lose more because men's CBB is a sport in severe decline. One & Done started it, and now the portal and NIL make it so much worse. I feel sorry for young people that never saw how great college hoops used to be, in the '70's/'80s. We actually got to know the players/lineups, etc. before they moved on. My once favorite sport now sucks.

[@bronsonbamnallen1633]

“oh no, we have to work year-round!? For millions!? Unacceptable.” -pansy College coaches in 2024, probably.

[@dlrichardson56]

way to quit on the players coach. what a class act.

[@otherworld11]

RICK CARLISLE - PLEASE RICK COME BACK TO UVA!

[@johnellis1702]

Nice guy but I don’t see how coaches complain. They follow the money and go to the most advantageous situation for them with no regard to their players. Shouldn’t students have the same rights?

[@JK-br1mu]

Your NIL system is trash.

[@herbcanter2114]

Totally different .

[@doubleandy]

From the coaches perspective, I can understand them not liking the uncertainty at the end of a season where they potentially have to rebuild their roster now. However, as you pointed out they can leave whenever they want for a better financial situation for them and their family so why not extend that to the athletes? Seems somewhat hypocritical on the part of the coaches to me.

[@KennethGreenCMP]

The old way - where the coach can make millions ( 3 million a year) and players can get an upgraded meal plan.

[@herbcanter2114]

Players get a great education and the real talented ones get an education for free then they move on to the NBA and make millions .

[@KennethGreenCMP]

@herbcanter2114 UNC Chapel Hill one of the great southern Ivy League schools, was caught having it basketball team taking fake classes and graduating. Coach Roy and Dean were about the business of college basketball not educating young men. Or should I believe that only the professor and players knew about it. And Zion really got into Duke based off his SAT scroce and grades - Thanks Coach K.

[@bdrobe2]

A guy quits his multi-million dollar job (at the last second) because he preferred to handle 13 interns instead of 13 employees. The dude is weak.

[@MitchCraft12]

A strong man stands for something and doesn’t cater to athletics that doesn’t have any values or morals. Sports was never about the money and will never be to those who truly love it.

[@georgemalone3318]

This man is actually talking about helping student athletes. Maybe he could’ve helped out his current team by letting them know before they came there that he wasn’t going to stay do any of you honestly think he suddenly decided two weeks before clearly a strategy to get his beloved assistant job and fuck the players he shook hands with and told he’d be there with them. This guy is a liar, and this is what you get from a bunch of college basketball media, and such coach worshiping these people. This guys got all the nerve in the world up here talking this shit is. Straight hypocrisy.😂

[@southwestrunner6384]

NIL & Transfer portal is destroying college sports…

[@dbreardon]

And now the NCAA has eliminated the NLI or national letter of intent, you can't even secure a team for next season. You could recruit someone today and they say they are hard committed and then in June of next year they could all of a sudden jump ship at a moments notice

[@dalesuddeth5294]

NIL is corrupting this great game, team sport....

[@rickd2140]

“Student-athletes” Lol! Yeah right!

[@LangleyHolland-l3p]

Horrible way to treat the kids he just recruited!

[@sawmill035]

What does it matter? Every player that any college recruits these days will just transfer out a year later for a bigger paycheck. Horrible way to treat the coach and school that recruited you!

[@Leswill]

WHT is that terrible, annoying background noise? It interferes with the story. It does not enhance it in any way.

[@joeymiddleton5821]

haha

[@dbreardon]

Yeah baby, VCU! My school. UVa needs to stay away from our coach. Find someone else.

[@JohnSmith-vy7ck]

Bennett with a net worth over $15 Million. He got his but doesn’t want the players to get paid.

[@yoda9518]

Can you cut a player if they dont play well?

[@darrellappling9276]

You right

[@andrewbc5415]

You might not want to advertise your ignorance so publicly.

[@briangraser3314]

It simple really, college sports have become in a nutshell. The inmates are running the asylum!!!

[@dbreardon]

I think he got tired of working with players who were all money hungry and having to deal with all that separate from basketball. And now the NCAA has eliminated the NLI -national letter of intent so you can't even secure a new recruitment team with players possibly jumping to new school after committing. It could be next june and you could just lose your entire team if they want to leave.

[@allen8263]

NIL & Transfer portal is destroying college sports…