Remember that unusual story about Bruce Pearl and Auburn taking a self-imposed ban from recruiting?
Well, Pat Forde at Yahoo is reporting that move could actually land Pearl and the AU Basketball program in even more hot water.
In a story published Sunday evening, Forde points out that Auburn’s response could actually magnify some of the issues that took place.
“The ban that supposedly stretched from the Sept. 26, 2017, arrest of assistant coach Chuck Person as part of the nationwide federal corruption investigation until the end of that season, wasn’t exactly ironclad. And if Auburn implemented a compliance policy in direct response to a potentially major NCAA rules violation by a member of its staff, and then flouted its own policy, that could magnify the issues that lie ahead for the basketball program.