Bob Knight's Take on NCAA Payment Policies Still Stands True

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00:00They asked him about paying players 30 years ago and he's long dead and gone now.

00:08My friend Bob Knight, who I looked up to like no other, scared to death of him, but I looked

00:13up to him.

00:14He said about paying players, he said, well, I'll tell you Al, I got no problem at all

00:21giving a kid a stipend of a couple of hundred bucks a week considering how much God damn

00:27money they make all these other sports that don't make any money.

00:31All that they have in NCAA sports is football and basketball, making all the money for all

00:37the other sports to exist.

00:39Some of these kids deserve to be able to go out and have some money and take their girlfriend

00:43out for a slice of pizza.

00:45We'll give them a couple of hundred bucks a week, I don't have a problem with that.

00:48Can you imagine this guy rolling in his grave and paying some kid to play basketball, $4

00:56million at BYU?

00:57I mean, the NCAA is an abortion.

01:01What they have done to college athletics, I told you on this show years ago, there's

01:06not one kid that goes to class, not one, in football or basketball, there's not one kid

01:11that goes to class.

01:12I want to see him.

01:13I want to watch him do it.

01:14I want to watch film of him sitting in class at college somewhere.

01:19I want to see it.

01:21Oh, he's an All-American Scholar, he's got a 3.9 GPA, bullshack.

01:32No one goes to class, everyone gets paid like they're a professional, they've already ruined

01:37college sports, and Bobby Knight was right about all of it.

01:4230 years ago, he was ahead of his time.

01:46He was smarter than Patton.

01:48You can quote me on that, I don't care what anybody thinks of me.

01:52He is not wrong about what has happened with college sports, there's no question about

01:58that.

01:59And that's what's wrong with the NBA.

02:00It is, yes, and the threes with the NBA he's right about too, but obviously this college

02:05sports thing, and I'm sure you talked about Laranega yesterday, and I got a clip of him

02:12I got the clip later where he's just like, we went to the Final Four, and nine of my

02:17kids went in the transfer portal, you've got to be kidding me.

02:24What goes on around here?

02:26It's so true, what happens with college sports now, it's out of control.