The coach gets a million-dollar contract and a TV show, and collects huge endorsement fees. The university rakes in prestige and profits. Then along come the agents and boosters with bulging pockets. It's thrown at them so much. Because of all that, NCAA basketball has always been the most vulnerable sport.
Universities try to cope.
Coaches lecture their players on citizenship. They hire tutors and bring in counselors and NCAA compliance officers. But ASU's Mosher said trouble is inevitable. Investigators said that ASU employees were not involved. Two players were arrested, one of them convicted, for stealing a compact disc player.