Coach K prepares to leave NCAA basketball, but first, he throws truth bombs on his way out about what needs to change.
Mike Krzyowski had decades to think about and govern the NCAA while coaching the Duke Blue Devils.
Now about to retire, Coach K says what needs to be said about the organization’s future.
“This is my turnaround time for college athletics,” Krzyzewski said. “When you transform, the main thing you transform is structure and organization. The structure that we have now is not working.”
Coach K went after the NCAA structure and lack of insight
Krzyzewski has been critical of the NCAA’s newly formed Transformation Committee, which is tasked with finding ways to address challenges faced by collegiate athletes. For Coach K, commission formation skews heavily on the compliance side of things.
“This is the time to not look at knitting and crumbs. It’s time to look at the whole thing,” Krzyzewski. “This time it’s catching up with all the things we’ve only adapted to [also] To form an organization that can anticipate change, that can look ahead and say these things might happen.”
It’s not enough just to create new guidelines for name, image, likeness or gateway transfer. The NCAA structure needs to be better prepared to be on the cutting edge of the next big problem developing for college sports.
Krzyzewski proposed a lobby with Congress and figureheads who could provide one-on-one contacts and relationships with the movers and shakers of the sport.
“Who does the NBA speak to in basketball for us? They don’t know,” Krzyzewski said. “I know Adam Silver more than anyone else in the NCAA.”
There must be flesh and blood people focused on representing college sports full time.
“In other words, you have to have these homes looking at what happens in your home on a daily basis. That has a sense for the components in that home so that you can represent them in a fair and adaptable way and we stay ahead of the curve,” Krzyzewski said. .”
It’s hard to argue with what Coach K advocated during his press conference. Just don’t invest in his direct involvement in the process, for now. He told reporters that wasn’t on the cards.
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