College basketball and football are a very dirty business. I’m of the opinion that most don’t want to
how the sausage is made. They’d instead like to believe that “their team” is clean and everyone else is
cheating. Just doesn’t work that way unless you have a massively good institutional level cover up (UNC) or actually are fairly clean and lose a lot (State).
I’d bet the search firm checked in on this. That is part of what they are paid to do.
