Gonzaga's Mark Few wants the NCAA to move quicker to investigate schools involved in federal trials
Few challenges NCAA President Mark Emmert to 'be a leader' and punish schools who broke the rules
The FBI's public interest in weeding out corruption in the college basketball realm dates back more than a year when indictments to assistant coaches, agents and employees of an apparel company were handed down ahead of the 2017-18 basketball season.
Since that time three individuals who were indicted in the case have been given guilty verdicts in court, and more face trial in 2019. To this point, however, none have faced repercussions from the NCAA -- and Gonzaga coach Mark Few would like that to change.
"I'm disappointed," Few told Yahoo Sports last weekend. "I don't think this is something the NCAA needs to take their time on. There's teams out here who are competing for Final Fours and national championships and they don't need to stall this thing out. They need to make decisions and roll with it. I think that's on [NCAA President] Mark Emmert. Emmert needs to step up and be a leader and make some quicker decisions."
Few, who guided the Bulldogs to the national championship game in 2017, has every right to try and push things along. After all, it's been more than a month since federal investigators reportedly gave the NCAA the all-clear to use their findings to initiate their own formal investigation into the alleged corruption. Nothing has changed and no program's have been punished as of yet.
There remains plans to punish offenders, however Emmert, speaking at the Learfield Intercollegiate Athletics Forum last week, says it's unlikely punishments will be handed down quickly.
"We want to do everything we can to make sure we're promoting the ethics of the game," Emmert said. "This has cast a very bad light on college basketball. We're not going to have everything wrapped up by the Final Four."
Few and Gonzaga lost to Tennessee on Sunday, but he used the game as an example of what good, clean college basketball is and how it's possible to play by the rules and still win big.
"There's two teams today who were competing who do it right. I know that to be true," Few said. "And there's a lot of teams who do it right – the national champions two out of the last three years. There's a lot of great things. This thing is worth saving."
















