Iowa Hawkeyes coach Fran McCaffery is a lot of different things to a lot of different people. But if you ask the coach himself, he is most certainly not a cheater. In fact, Fran McCaffery has publicly admitted he has no shame in snitching.

“I’ve turned programs in and I’ll continue to do that when I know that there’s something going on,” McCaffery said at the program’s media day, according to the Des Moines Register. “But a lot of times you don’t know what’s going on. So can you police yourselves? Only if you know something’s going on. But even then it’s hard for the NCAA to do something.”

That isn't being a rat like they portrayed in Goodfellas or anything. That is a coach, who works at Iowa, trying to protect something he loves. Whether or not you agree with him doesn't really matter, as Fran McCaffery is apparently abiding by the letter of the law.

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For the Iowa coach, there is a silver lining in this otherwise gloomy cloud of the feds probing the sport.

“Any time the game is cleaned up,” McCaffery said, “it’s better for all of us.”

He isn't wrong.

However, it has yet to be seen if the FBI coming in to arrest some folk (for what are felonies) will have any actual real impact on the cleanliness of the game. There will always be nefarious folk in the shadow, who try to cheat the system, when the system has corruption built in to its foundation since it won't pay the laborers who generate the money.