Charles Barkley is not a fan of the NCAA’s management of NIL and the transfer portal. 

Barkley, 62, didn’t mince words when talking about the current state of college basketball. 

"The NCAA, they’re a bunch of idiots and fools. They have ruined the sport. I don't know how you put the toothpaste back into the tube," Barkley said during a recent appearance on OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich."

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Barkley isn’t opposed to college players getting paid, but has trouble making sense as to how much money players are making, and how frequently players can now switch schools. 

"This notion that you have to come up with tens of millions of dollars to pay kids to play basketball, and have them be free agents every year and transfer to another school and get more money every year. Like, we don't even get to do that in the NBA. Can you imagine if players in the NBA got to be a free agent every year? I'm not opposed to players getting paid, I want to make that clear," Barkley said. 

"But, this notion we gotta give college kids tens of millions of dollars a year, and basketball is the worst, because you're only gonna get a great player for six months. I don't even see how you're gonna get the return on investment."

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Barkley was asked whether he would ever donate to his alma mater, Auburn, to help its NIL fund, but the Basketball Hall of Famer would rather donate his money to more important causes. 

"I just gave 10 million dollars to HBCU's, that stuff is way more important to me. I just gave a couple million dollars to ‘Blight’, in my hometown of Birmingham, to rebuild houses," Barkley said. 

"That stuff is way more important to me than joining the cesspool that is college athletics. We're such a s----- country, Dan. We have ruined college athletics, and I don't wanna even get in that cesspool."

If even the 11-time All-Star were to give money to Auburn's NIL fund, he isn’t sure how he would get his return on investment. 

"If I give a guy three or four, five, seven, some guys are getting six, seven, eight million dollars, I'm not sure how I get my return on investment if he's only going to be at my college for one year, and you're probably not going to win the championship," Barkley said.

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A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus.

The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its uncontrolled reentry, based on analysis and no-shows of the spacecraft on subsequent orbits. The European Space Agency’s space debris office also indicated that the spacecraft had reentered after it failed to appear over a German radar station.

It was not immediately known where the spacecraft came in or how much, if any, of the half-ton spacecraft survived the fiery descent from orbit. Experts said ahead of time that some if not all of it might come crashing down, given it was built to withstand a landing on Venus, the solar system’s hottest planet.

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The chances of anyone getting clobbered by spacecraft debris were exceedingly low, scientists said.

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a rocket malfunction.

Much of the spacecraft came tumbling back to Earth within a decade of the failed launch. No longer able to resist gravity’s tug as its orbit dwindled, the spherical lander — an estimated 3 feet (1 meter) across — was the last part of the spacecraft to come down. The lander was encased in titanium, according to experts, and weighed more than 1,000 pounds (495 kilograms).

After following the spacecraft’s downward spiral, scientists, military experts and others could not pinpoint in advance precisely when or where the spacecraft might come down. 

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Solar activity added to the uncertainty as well as the spacecraft’s deteriorating condition after so long in space.

As of Saturday morning, the U.S. Space Command had yet to confirm the spacecraft's demise as it collected and analyzed data from orbit.

The U.S. Space Command routinely monitors dozens of reentries each month. What set Kosmos 482 apart — and earned it extra attention from government and private space trackers — was that it was more likely to survive reentry, according to officials.

It was also coming in uncontrolled, without any intervention by flight controllers who normally target the Pacific and other vast expanses of water for old satellites and other space debris.