Alright, so yesterday Tony Bennett retired.
Let me clarify, he retired 20 days before the season starts.
He’s an elite coach.
Yes, he’s right that something should be done.
I don’t care abut NIL, guys get paid, who cares.
The portal is the bigger ‘problem.’
To me it’s a simple fix that probably isn’t so simple.
Think that’s fair for everyone involved.
Guys go to school for the most part to play for a certain coach and system.
If they leave, you have the right to leave.
Now, I say that, to bring up this point.
Tony Bennett says he’s not the right guy to lead the program.
Uh, sure, but you don’t say that 20 days before the season.
Tony Bennett is 100% the right guy to lead the program from October-March.
You know what else you don’t do?
It’s quite literally what you signed up for.
It’s what you signed up for 4 months ago.
Spare me the ‘it took until fall break’ to realize this.
We’ve seen it done before, we’ll see it done again.
Guys who are staples at colleges retiring and making sure they help handpick the next coach.
Again, multiple things are true here.
Tony Bennett was a hell of a coach, who had his own system and won.
The landscape of college sports can and should be better.
But you don’t quit on a team right before the season starts.
You don’t get it both ways when you complain about the landscape and do this.
Also, this isn’t the end of college basketball like people out there are trying to say.
It’s not some gigantic indictment on the sport.
If college basketball was dying, Dan Hurley would be coaching the Lakers.
Rick Pitino wouldn’t be coaching (at two schools) in his 70s.
