In an appearance Tuesday on\u00a0The Dan Patrick Show<\/a>, Bilas called for a new NCAA rule prohibiting tampering with under-contract coaches. Rather than devote resources to players being poached in the transfer portal, Bilas suggested, the NCAA should be devoting far more energy toward stopping the silly coaching cycle from dominating headlines and screwing programs each spring.<\/p>\n\u201cThis would never happen in the NBA or the NFL. A job\u2019s open, and coaches are mentioned, contacted, and they squeeze more money out of where they are. And they leverage it. As they should, because that\u2019s just smart business,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I can\u2019t imagine why the NCAA doesn\u2019t have a rule that says there\u2019s no tampering with coaches. We talk about tampering with players who are not under contract and have a transfer portal. That\u2019s not tampering. There\u2019s tampering with coaches. These guys are under contract. But everybody accepts it, because if somebody takes my coach, then I\u2019m going to go take somebody else\u2019s coach, and I want to be able to do that. And the domino effect of that affects a lot of people\u2019s lives, including a lot of players\u2019 lives. And we continue to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bilas noted that this is a problem in both basketball and football at the college level, but he may be off-base in suggesting it is not a problem in the pros. Plenty of coaches mutually part ways or resign from their jobs in the NBA or NFL, only to quickly sign with a new franchise. One can only assume that back-channel conversations are happening through these processes.<\/p>\n
Still, Bilas\u2019 general point that schools are allowed to openly tamper with coaches while college basketball decision-makers cry wolf about tampering with players is sound. It is just one of the many hypocrisies that Bilas has found himself calling out<\/a> as the NCAA and the rest of college sports tries to figure out how to regulate NIL, pay-for-play, and the portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before North Carolina went outside the box and hired Michael Malone as its next head men\u2019s basketball coach,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,6271,231,772,1544,11807],"class_list":{"0":"post-704362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-jay-bilas","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab","14":"tag-the-dan-patrick-show"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116366561981855635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}