Today, Pat Forde at Sports Illustrated, bringing the fire guaranteed to make the cheatin’ apologists’ (“but muh name image and likeness rights”) heads explode:
“The SEC is a s--- fest right now, so coaches can’t be too hypocritical because everyone else is doing it, too. It’s pretty bad throughout.”
It hasn’t been that long since describing SEC basketball as a “shitfest” would have been referring to the product on the court, but that was when Darrin Horn and Tony Barbee were actual head basketball coaches at SEC schools. Now, of course, the source is talking about this:
“Things may be worse now than they were before the FBI stuff,” said one industry insider with deep ties in both the recruiting and coaching realms.