Mark Cuban Torches College Basketball, Gives Priceless Quotes

Mark Cuban blasts what he calls ‘horrible’ and ‘ridiculous’ NCAA basketball – http://t.co/AyFwAkwXwK

— Kelly Dwyer (@KDonhoops) April 9, 2015

Mark Cuban is a shark no matter the body of water. As usual, Cuban had plenty to say and he pulled about as many punches as Manny Pacquiao. According to Kelly Dwyer of Yahoo! Sports, the Dallas Mavericks‘ owner had the following things to state on the state of college basketball:

“It’s horrible. It’s ridiculous… it’s worse than high school. You’ve got 20 to 25 seconds of passing on the perimeter and then somebody goes and tries to make a play and do something stupid, and scoring’s gone down.”

Cuban went on:

“The referees couldn’t manage a White Castle. Seriously, the college game is more physical than the NBA game, and the variation in how it’s called from game to game [is a problem]. Hell, they don’t even have standards on balls. They use different balls. One team’s got one ball, the other team’s got another ball. There are so many things that are ridiculous.”

And on:

“If they want to keep kids in school and keep them from being pro players, they’re doing it the exact right way by having the 35-second shot clock and having the game look and officiated the way it is… just because kids don’t know how to play a full game of basketball.”

“You’ve got three kids passing on the perimeter. With 10 seconds on the shot clock, they try to make something happen and two other kids stand around. They don’t look for anything and then run back on defense, so there’s no transition game because two out of five or three out of five or in some cases four out of five kids aren’t involved in the play.”

Most fans would agree the officiating in NCAA basketball is atrocious, but Cuban is Cuban because he can liken this perceived incompetence to running a restaurant featured in ‘Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle‘. It’s this open opinion and vanguard thought that makes Cuban a true all-timer.

Jerry Landry is a writer for www.RantSports.com. Follow Jerry on Twitter at @Jerry2Landry, “Like” him on Facebook or add him on Google.