If not for Rick Pitino, he never would have transferred to Kentucky, won an NCAA championship and become a coach himself.
“I’m where I am now because of him,” said Pope, the men’s basketball coach at Utah Valley University.
“I’d love the whole recruiting process to be cleaned up,” he said. “I think that’s good for everybody.”
The full impact of an FBI investigation that last week led to charges against four college assistant coaches and an Adidas representative accused of taking kickbacks in exchange for funneling recruits toward certain managers and financial advisers still is unknown.