In Rick Pitino's mind, he's guilty of only one thing: ignorance.
It has been almost a year since the FBI investigation into bribery and fraud in college basketball cost the Hall of Fame coach his job at Louisville. The scandal sent shock waves through the sport, but it has been a slow-moving storm since. Coaches who were linked to the investigation have received contract extensions; most of the players who were held out of competition will return to the court this season; and the NCAA tournament went off without an issue.
Pitino, meanwhile, remains the only head coach to have lost his job, and he remains defiant that he did nothing improper or illegal, only that he placed his trust in the wrong people.