ANN ARBOR - John Beilein doesn't think the kind of corruption revealed last week in an FBI investigation into college basketball is rampant within the sport.

But for those who are breaking the law in an attempt to lure recruits, he does want to see prosecution in the name of cleaning up the sport.

"If people are breaking the law, if people are committing felony crimes in our business, then get them the heck out of our business, if that's what's happening," the Michigan coach said on Wednesday.

"College basketball is my life. It should be clean. This element should not be a part of it. If this is the necessary part to clean these things up. I'm hoping it's isolated. But we'll find out."

A total of 10 people were arrested last week, including four high-major assistant coaches, following a two-year federal investigation that involved wiretaps and undercover agents.

Among the allegations are that more than $250,000 in bribes changed hands to lure recruits to certain schools. Louisville coach Rock Pitino was placed on unpaid leave the next day, after reportedly being one of the unnamed coaches in the FBI's affidavits. Pitino has denied wrongdoing.

Speaking publicly for the first time since the investigation was revealed, Beilein said he doesn't believe that kind of behavior is widespread in the sport. But after three decades in the NCAA, he knows the sport does have its bad actors.

"I don't think the sky is falling in college basketball," Beilein said. "I think there is certainly some rogue coaches. How many? Maybe I'll be proven wrong, but I can't believe there's too much of that going on out there. That's just me talking."

On this topic, few have a better reputation in the game than Beilein. A group of anonymous college basketball coaches polled by in August by CBS Sports voted Beilein the coach they believe most operates with the NCAA rulebook. Beilein received 26.6 percent of the vote in that poll, 16 percent more than any other coach.

Asked about that poll on Wednesday, Beilein joked that his assistants must have been the only ones polled, before making a crack about his hygiene.

"I take a couple of showers a day, so that keeps me nice and clean," Beilein said.

Turning serious, though, Beilein said that he tries to set a culture of compliance at his program that starts from him and emanates through his assistants - of which he has two this offseason.

Recruits who are looking for the types of payouts described in FBI documents last week, he said, don't stay Michigan recruits long.

"Whether it's parents or prospects, if they are looking for that, they're not talking with me or we're off their list immediately because they know it's not happening here, so we don't even have to deal with it," Beilein said.