The environment Bennett referred to is the rapid, dizzying transformation of major college sports toward a professional model, with loosely regulated payments to players, the lifting of restrictions on player transfers and the increasing influence of agents, among other changes.

Tony Bennett is spot-on, and it would benefit everybody involved if the NCAA would start addressing the issues that he raises here.

Tony Bennett specifically mentioned NIL, the transfer portal and agents playing bigger roles as elements that have changed the game and his place in it. He finished 364-136 in 15 seasons with the