Former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski says there's 'no leadership' in college sports with NIL

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Mike Krzyzewski coached college basketball 47 years, and NIL was a thing in just one of them.

Coach K has criticized the NCAA before, but he says as name, image and likeness deals become more prevalent, college basketball needs to regulate it.

"Who can explain NIL? A lot of people can explain it, but you'd have different explanations," he told Field of 68, via CBS Sports. 

"There should be one explanation. And we should have it, obviously. It's a free market right now. And in a free market, there's also free interpretation. In order to bring this all back in, it's going to be very difficult, because how are you going to tell people they can't do what they've been doing?

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Mike Krzyzewski, retired Duke basketball coach, tapes an episode of his SiriusXM show during a SiriusXM Town Hall With Coach K event at Cameron Indoor Stadium June 2, 2022, in Durham, N.C.  (Grant Halverson/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

"It's not led. So, any organization that's not led has a chance — not a chance, it's going to go in a lot of directions and have a lot of different views and what it means, what to do. There's no leadership," he added.

"With all the conferences changing, the world has really changed in the last few years, and it begs for leadership. We used to have it from the conference commissioners. But they're all competing against one another. So there's not solidarity. For this there has to be common ground."

Mike Krzyzewski, former head coach of the Duke Blue Devils, and wife Mickie watch the first half of a game against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Cameron Indoor Stadium Feb. 14, 2023, in