Dick Vitale wants changes to the Portal

[mthoopsfan]

“The NCAA needs to act and they need to act quickly,” implored ESPN’s Dick Vitale, citing the number of players changing schools. “It’s insanity, it’s wacky what’s going on. The transfer portal has caused an absolute nightmare [on the collegiate landscape].”

Vitale focused on the negative effects the portal is having as elite programs are poaching the best players from the mid-major programs. He says it is creating an unfair competitive balance where the smaller programs simply can not compete. 

“The transfer portal is absolutely destroying so many teams—especially the mid majors,” he said in the video.
The beloved 83-year-old announcer acknowledged that what the top tier programs are doing is all legal and within the new NIL and transfer rules, but he begged the NCAA to help save the health of the sport. 

“The bottom line is it’s not good for the game,” Vitale said. “It’s creating such instability. Don’t sleep on this NCAA, you have to check out what is going on.”

Sports Illustrated: https://apple.news/ASiGIYWfuQDmq0B5ojq6ydg

 

[Griz Addict]

Yeah the portal needs restrictions. I say 1 time transfer with no exceptions.

 

[Griz Time]

Ran into Dickie V on the Notre Dame campus about 20 years ago. Super nice, even was willing to sign my ND hat.

 

[bgbigdog]

My wife came up from Chicago to pick me up for a weekend getaway at Lake Geneva, where I'd been at a Company event for most of the week. it was a Friday afternoon, traffic was horrible and she was on the road ninety minutes more than it should have taken on a typical day. Our youngest daughter was in full meltdown mode when the car stopped in front of the hotel entrance. Dick Vitale was standing in front of the doors, waiting for a ride somewhere, wearing a polo with the hotel's logo on it.

Frazzled wife exits the vehicle, extricates our daughter from the backseat, and promptly hands her to Dickie. I witnessed all of this on my way out the front door and quickly retrieved our daughter. I apologized and thanked him for helping out. He laughed, smiled and simply said, "Teach her to shoot the three." Among the best pieces of advice, I ever got for raising our girls. She paid for most of her own college education, shooting the three.