Kentucky head coach John Calipari believes it’s time to get NIL and the transfer portal under control.
“We need guardrails and all that stuff,” Calipari said.
Calipari said his suggestion is for schools to have transparency about what they are doing. He also gave some ideas about the transfer portal.
Here is an excerpt of Cal’s comments from Kentucky Today:
“We need guardrails and all that stuff,” Calipari said. “I think young people, they deserved to share in what’s happening. They deserve their name on the back of their jersey, their signature, their autograph. They deserve that.
“It’s kind of gone beyond that now, and it’s different. The one thing I’m happy about, some of our players coming in, they already had deals before they got to our campus, for trading cards, shoe deals, all this. There’s not as much pressure for us to have to do X, Y, Z.”
On the recruiting trail, Calipari doesn’t sell NIL to his recruits and added name, image and likeness takes care of itself at Kentucky.
“If it’s about NIL more than basketball, you shouldn’t come here,” he said. “The big picture of where you’re trying to take yourself. Basketball should be the overriding factor, even though you’ll do better here than any other place you can go, it’s not why you come to Kentucky.”
