How Can We Fix College Basketball?

08 June 2025, Hamburg: Banknotes worth one, five and ten US dollars lie on a table. Photo: Soeren Stache/dpa (Photo by Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images) The reality of NIL and the transfer portal is that it’s made competing for talent much more difficult. That leaves how to make talent work together aside for the moment, but that’s a topic for another discussion.

The latest coach to bring this up is UCLA’s Mick Cronin. After losing to UConn, he was asked about possible changes to how UCLA manages the modern environment. Cronin said this: “I’d like about five million more (dollars).

” Before the tournament, Cronin also said that “[y]ou should be able to go over the revenue share to be able to retain players. Very few of these guys are going to be able to retire on (NIL money), so we need to encourage guys not to transfer. ” That’s an interesting idea.

Here’s another way to possibly do it, if it’s legal: limit the number of transfers any school can take to six. That would force at least a couple of things. First, players would be much more cautious about entering the portal, or at least players who aren’t in very high demand would.