Jim Nantz Worried About College Basketball: 'May Not Live Another 15 Years'

by Larry Leo

April 4, 202516 Comments

CBS NCAA Basketball announcer Jim Nantz is worried about the future of college basketball...

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“My concern on your question is the future of college basketball,” Nantz said, responding to a question from Dan Patrick on whether golf or college basketball had a more grim future.

“That may not live as we know it another 500 years. It may not live another 15 years. Because the portal and NIL, it’s difficult. And I don’t want to paint it doom and gloom, I don’t want to say it’s bound to be extinct, it’s not going to be.

(The Spun)

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TNTigerman•2 months

So he said it something that might be extinct, but it's not gonna be.

RTRnFlorida•2 months

He caught himself telling the truth and had to recurrent it so he keeps a job

Geaux Guy•2 months

The blue bloods are impacted by NIL and now ‘the sky is falling’. LOL

RTRnFlorida•2 months

No. He’s right. It won’t last. They’ll only be blue bloods or schools that have money left with all
Of the best players in 15 years. Same with baseball and Football

Cuthbert13•2 months

I said it was a dying spot and got crucified for it

Cuthbert13•2 months

Sport

Fightin Okra•2 months

All college sports in trouble.

OweO•2 months

There is too much money involved for it to die, I think the NIL rules/laws will change before it dies.

BobABooey•2 months

Agree with Jim. In the NIL/portal era, it’s easy to trot out an all star team season after season. Take LSU as an example.

Pig 2•2 months

No the fact is money has been a part of sports for years!! The portal helps all players from being trapped by coaches like Saban from recruiting players so they don’t play for other teams!

RTRnFlorida•2 months

Not this kind of free flowing sizable money with no agreements or moral contracts at all

Lynxrufus2012•2 months

Well, Hoopla only lasted one commercial. But we saw it 100 times.

Basketball will survive. It will change due to the money distribution to where only the Power conferences will have the money to pay the players. But we see that now.

FLTech•2 months

“May”, “might”, “could”, “potential”

Since when has opinions count as actual real news?

AgCoug•2 months

Who said this was news? 99% of sports talk is people sharing their opinions.

Mike the Tiger 1999•2 months

same can be said for you, Jim

chadr07•2 months

Maybe so, but the thought of college basketball or even football going down the drain in the near future due to extreme greed is quite depressing don’t you think?

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