Cal, Stanford ADs say no easy solutions to basketball bribery scandal

College basketball’s latest bribery scandal has given the sport a black eye, but neither of the Bay Area’s Pac-12 athletic directors thinks the various remedies that have been suggested would work.

Ten men, including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches — two of them in the Pac-12 — were charged last month with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes’ choice of schools, shoe sponsors and agents.

“This is a shame for college basketball and the impact is being felt throughout the sport,” Cal’s Mike Williams said. “We don’t know how far this reaches. … Only time will tell.