{"id":102990,"date":"2025-08-22T23:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102990\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:51:07","slug":"tom-izzo-calls-transfer-portal-way-worse-for-college-basketball-than-nil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102990\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Izzo calls transfer portal \u2018way worse\u2019 for college basketball than NIL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the NIL<\/a> era began, Tom Izzo<\/a> hasn\u2019t been shy about his thoughts on the state of college sports. He has also been vocal about the transfer portal\u2019s<\/a> impact on college basketball and reiterated that this week.<\/p>\n

Speaking with CBS Sports\u2019 Jon Rothstein<\/a>, Izzo said the portal is \u201cway worse\u201d for college basketball because of the amount of tampering he sees. He called back to his comments in March when the transfer window opened ahead of the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament when he called out players getting messages during the season.<\/p>\n

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Izzo also agreed with Arkansas<\/a> coach John Calipari\u2019s<\/a> sentiment regarding a one-time transfer rule<\/a>. That, he argued, would help cut down on concerns coaches have about tampering.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said the transfer portal is way worse than the NIL even though, who knows how much money you have to come up with?\u201d Izzo said. \u201cWhat the transfer portal does is it gives a lot of middlemen a chance to come in. And what I think is bothering me and my sport the most is the way people are tampering with people throughout the year. [A one-time transfer rule] would eliminate some of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven in the NFL, NBA, you don\u2019t tamper with a guy who\u2019s got a four-year contract. You don\u2019t even think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tom Izzo calls out \u2018dirtbags that are tampering\u2019<\/p>\n

Last year, the transfer portal opened as teams were making their preparations for the Sweet Sixteen. Michigan State was one of those teams, and Tom Izzo gave a passionate response<\/a> about having college basketball\u2019s version of \u201cfree agency\u201d take place during the season.<\/p>\n

But he also argued the portal doesn\u2019t \u201cclose,\u201d per se, during the year because of the interest players get while with their current program. Izzo said that\u2019s what stands out the most about the state of college basketball and reiterated how a one-time transfer rule could play a role in settling things at least a bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went on that rant during the NCAA tournament last year about, why is all the interest now on the portal when it opened?\u201d Izzo said. \u201cI said, the portal has been open since September. The portal never closes because we have too many dirtbags that are tampering with people and players. I love when my guys have an NBA agent. It\u2019s the other agents that kill you.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love when people are upfront. But I think the worst thing I see is the tampering, believe it or not, and I think one-time transfer would help that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the NIL era began, Tom Izzo hasn\u2019t been shy about his thoughts on the state of college…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,4044,2662,398,400,401,99,16509,1092],"class_list":["post-102990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports","tag-tom-izzo","tag-transfer-portal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}