The FBI’s investigation into college basketball recruiting, which cast a cloud over the sport during the 2017-18 season, could have been launched not years but many decades ago, points out former Kansas and NBA forward Scot Pollard.
“Let’s not act like it’s a new thing. It’s been going on since the early days,” the 43-year-old Pollard said in a phone interview on Thursday. Pollard's comments came a day after the 12-person independent commission on college basketball issued recommendations for the NCAA to follow to improve the sport. The commission was formed as part of a response to FBI indictments that allege shoe company representatives have steered basketball recruits to play for certain schools by paying players, players’ family members and/or guardians.