Most of the FBI's recent probe into recruiting in college basketball should not come as a surprise to anyone.
If you believed that all high-level recruiting was clean, you are probably either an NCAA investigator or living under a sports rock. Third-party handlers and financial planners have tried to influence young hoopers for decades, and a lot of those people aren't just becoming close with high school players out of the goodness of their hearts. There's money to be made off of those amateurs, and adults want in. A talented high schooler is worth a heck of a lot more than a college scholarship, so, in today's structure of NCAA basketball, that value is going to schools.