"It is Coach Pitino's vehicle for proving that he had nothing to do with Adidas' outrageous, wrongful, and illegal conspiracy." RELATED: Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino suspended for 5 ACC games Pitino's complaint alleges Adidas "outrageously conspired to funnel money to the family of a recruit of the University of Louisville men's basketball team" without Pitino's knowledge, sending approximately $100,000 to the unidentified recruit in an attempt to steer him toward signing with Louisville for college and Adidas once he entered the NBA. ESPN speculated Tuesday that the athlete in question was Brian Bowen, who committed to Louisville in June but was suspended indefinitely in September after the FBI arrested 10 men -- one of them an Adidas executive named in Pitino's suit -- in connection with its investigation into corruption in college basketball.