Rick Barnes: "The FBI didn't have the playbook. Believe me, they don't have the playbook"

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"I'd like to say I feel confident (that the NCAA will hold coaches accountable). When I watched that the other night, obviously it was going to be shaded towards the views of Christian Dawkins, but I was shocked at the FBI. I was shocked at their approach at how they thought they were going to see coaches take money and hand it somewhere. Their approach where they said they had the playbook, they didn't have the playbook. Believe me, they don't have the playbook. What's going on in college basketball, I could go back decades. It's been something every decade some way some how."

"I don't think there's any question the NCAA knows what's gone on in our sport forever. I really believe that, trust me, they know. The point is they would say 'we can't wire tap, we can't do this, we can't do that' but I don't think you have to wiretap. Some of the things that were said the other night were pretty tough. Anybody listening to that and understanding that conversation, it gets back to universities. How do we want to be looked upon, how do want to do things? Am I confident the NCAA do the right thing? I can tell you this, I think they will do everything they can with the information they have."

"I can also say you this: the NCAA has a lot of money they have to set aside for lawsuits. They got money set aside for litigation and legal fees. It bothered me a couple months ago when they said they have to slow down, we don't have enough people to investigate all the six or eight teams or whatever it is we need to look at. That's disappointing because it goes on year after year after year and those teams are benefitting from some of the things they did and now they're playing for another championship or whatever it may be. That's the disappointing part that we can't get to an answer quicker. You can talk about due diligence but how hard is it to get into it and if you can get what you need to get, you get it. If you can't you can't."

"Our whole business gets criticized and people think that's what the whole business is, and it's not. It's really not. There's a whole lot of coaches I could go down the line and name and tell you they were in the business for a long time and they didn't cheat, they haven't cheated and they won't cheat. I've been doing this for over 40 years and we all get reputations and it's mostly based on how we do things and go about our business. Believe me, there are more coaches that don't do what was on the other night than do."

"I can sit here and say technically, did we win the conference championship back to back? Technically nothing's been proven, so I can't say that. There's rules in place but I can also say we don't always get what we want in life."

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