Gift horse or Trojan horse?
It’s not often that five-star recruits fall out of the sky, but Brian Bowen has now done it twice. Serious college basketball fans know the story of the first time. Here’s the shorthand for the casual fan: Former Louisville head coach Rick Pitino marveled during an interview about how easy the recruitment of Bowen was last year. Pitino, as his story went, had no expectation of signing the former McDonald’s All-American until Bowen came calling on his team. It turns out there was more to the story and when the more to the story comes out in an FBI investigation, it’s rarely a good thing.