Jay Bilas & Seth Greenberg: What’s REALLY Broken in College Hoops (PLUS Generational 2026 NBA Draft)
All The Smoke
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Jay Bilas and Seth Greenberg join Matt Barnes for a deep, unfiltered conversation on what’s actually broken in college basketball.
From NIL and the transfer portal to year-to-year free agency and growing age gaps, Bilas and Greenberg explain why the NCAA is purposefully struggling to keep up, and what that means for the future of the sport.
Later, the conversation shifts to the generational 2026 NBA Draft class, including Jay’s thoughts on Darryn Peterson’s Kobe Bryant comparisons, AJ Dybantsa, and Cam Boozer.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome back to Unplugged. |
| 0:08.6 | I felt this conversation was so important to have that we're not even really going to talk about football this week |
| 0:14.3 | about my Niners getting their ass kick so you guys cannot say nothing because we're going to do something else this week. |
| 0:20.0 | But all jokes aside, something you guys know if you follow this show, I've been very |
| 0:24.2 | adamant about. |
| 0:25.6 | And it's the NCAA and the Wild Wild West in which these student athletes, so-called, are running |
| 0:33.8 | in. |
| 0:35.3 | You know, we've pointed out a lot of the issues with it. But today I brought a panel |
| 0:41.0 | of experts, so to speak, in the space. And we're going to talk a little bit about obviously the |
| 0:47.7 | issues, but also what are some resolutions, what are some ideas, what are something that the |
| 0:53.5 | NCAA, because we know they're |
| 0:54.8 | probably going to see this, you know, can take from this and what you guys can take from this |
| 0:58.5 | as fans. So I want to start off before I introduce my guests, I want to start off with this |
| 1:05.0 | edit of Coach Cow and Tom Izzo and their thoughts on kind of what the NCAA is and stands for right now. |
| 1:13.6 | Take a look. |
| 1:14.6 | Well, look, I don't blame coaches. |
| 1:18.6 | You know, I've got friends that are playing with 27-year-olds and they feel bad. |
| 1:22.6 | I said, don't feel bad. |
| 1:24.6 | We don't have any rules. |
| 1:26.6 | Why should you feel bad? But let me give you this. Real simple. |
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