As Tad Boyle digested, however fitfully, the latest round of news out of the FBI's ongoing college basketball corruption probe that surfaced Friday morning, he at first breathed a sigh of relief. No one even remotely related to Colorado basketball was named in the exhaustive report published by Yahoo Sports that implicated some of the game's biggest names and programs.
Not that Boyle was particularly stressed about the cleanliness of his Buffaloes program. Yet the report illustrated two distinct stains on the game that, while both entailing illicit payments, actually are two separate problems.
There are the players who take improper payments or benefits while they are being recruited.