First-year BYU basketball coach Mark Pope momentarily raised eyebrows when he joked with local media about his recruiting philosophy since leaving Utah Valley University.
“I don’t know if there’s any special sauce, but I do know that as soon as I get these kids — I get to know them — I start collecting dirt on them. I’m like an FBI guy. I got them. They’re stuck. I used to go toward the bags of cash, but I can’t do that here anymore because it’s more high-profile.”
Somewhere there’s an NCAA investigator that doesn’t think this is funny.