FBI brings Armageddon to college basketball, and it's just the tip of the iceberg.

I've noticed that if someone gets away with a criminal act, and makes money doing it, they strongly tend to think they will always get away with it.  Because they're smarter.  The more often it works, the more it seems that it should always work, and the criminality gets more bold and open.  It works until it doesn't work, then the chit hit the fans big time.

Looks like something like that happened here.

The federal government dropped a bomb on college basketball Tuesday, indicting 10 men in a wide-spread fraud and bribery scheme involving top recruits, college programs, agents, financial planners and the shoe and apparel company Adidas.

It’s thorough. It’s ugly. It’s unprecedented.

Assistant coaches at Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State and USC were all arrested and their programs are almost certainly in dire straights with both the Department of Justice (DOJ) and NCAA. The evidence here is based on an undercover FBI agent, wiretapped phones, recordings, written communication and financial transaction data. The feds win nearly every case for a reason. And the indicted haven’t even started flipping yet.

Death penalty. Postseason bans. Mass firings. It’s going to be a scorched earth, the bill coming due on a sport that has operated in the shadows of corruption for generations.

Yet for college hoops none of it represents the scariest part of the three complaints laid out by the DOJ on Tuesday. This, a statement by said undercover FBI agent, should terrify every coach in America:

“Because this affidavit is being submitted for the limited purpose of establishing probable cause, it does not include all of the facts that I have learned during the court of the investigation.”

Meaning, this is the tip of the iceberg.

“Our investigation is ongoing,” FBI assistant director Bill Sweeney warned. “And we are currently conducting interviews.”

“If you yourself engaged in these activities, I’d encourage you to call us,” said Kim, the Acting U.S. Attorney. “I think it’s better than us calling you.”

Turn yourself in before we crab walk you in front of the cameras.  Boy oh boy, I'd sure like to know what evidence they've got and how broadly this spreads.  

And it breaks in the news just as the brouhaha between Trump/The Normals and the NFL/America Haters burns hottest. Who would have predicted that the president of the USA would be feuding with the NFL over issues of patriotism, or that top college basketball programs would be indicted for criminal fraud and bribery? Professional and collegiate sports are taking one punishing body blow after another. 

This is going to get interesting, no doubt about it.