Tennessee basketball has had its fair share of NCAA issues in recent history. Two of the Vols’ three coaches before Rick Barnes suffered show-cause penalties. So what about this new FBI probe into the sport?
All of us should be familiar with the public details of the FBI investigative probe that involves NCAA basketball recruiting. Sports Illustrated put out a pretty good summary on what we know, if you need brought up to speed. Or if you’d like the information straight from the FBI, here are the documents.
The news on the probe had sort of fallen off to silence until last Thursday when Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel reported that there is a “breadth of potential NCAA rules violations uncovered” in information currently under protective order, in the hands of the FBI.