accountable when they use that influence illegally.

Here's just one example:

In criminal complaints, investigators said basketball coaches have the ability to provide access to the student-athletes to sports agents, financial advisers, business managers and others.

“Moreover, many such coaches have enormous influence over the student-athletes who play for them, in particular with respect to guiding those student-athletes through the process of selecting agents and other advisers when they prepare to leave college and enter the NBA,” the complaints said.

“The investigation has revealed several instances in which coaches have exercised that influence by steering players and their families to retain particular advisers, not because of the merits of those advisers, but because
the coaches were being bribed by the advisers to do so,” the papers said.

http://arizonasports.com/story/1255389/arizona-assistant-basketball-coach-among-10-charged-with-corruption/