The Chuck Person scandal has led to a change on Auburn's basketball staff.

Director of operations Chad Prewett, who was promoted to that position in April after spending three years as special assistant to Bruce Pearl, has been elevated to interim assistant coach.

"Right now, we've elevated Chad Prewett to an assistant coaching position," Pearl said following Tuesday's practice. "Whatever we do, it's a temporary situation. That temporary could last a while."

Prewett fills in for Person, who was among four assistant coaches and 10 people arrested last week following a joint investigation by the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office. Person, who has been suspended without pay, is facing six federal charges for fraud, bribery and conspiracy and is due in court in New York on Oct. 10.

Pearl said Prewett, who spent seven years at Lee-Scott Academy before coming to Auburn, can do both his operations job and coaching role.

"We all multi-task and I do a lot of basketball operations stuff," Pearl said. "The one thing is it's now going to allow him to do is be on the floor and have a voice on the floor whereas before he couldn't. ... There's not a tremendous urgency to have assistants be focused on recruiting. We're starting practice right now, so we're all in on this."

Prewett was the coach of both the boys and girls basketball teams at Lee Scott from 2007 until 2014. He led the boys team to the 2012 AISA state championship and four state titles in a five-year span with the girls team.

The role of Steven Pearl, Bruce's son, is also greater since he was made an assistant coach earlier this offseason.

"Steven has brought the physicality, the toughness, the accountability ending possessions. His eyes will focus on the defense," Bruce Pearl said. "We picked up the physicality, trying not to overreact to how they're going to call the game and the rule changes in the sense that we are playing more physically. ... I'd rather back it down than perhaps not overreact to it."

James Crepea is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @JamesCrepea.