OT: Yahoo Report implicates Miles Bridges in Dirty Dealings with ASM Sports Agency

This was money spent by an agent to lure potential clients. Brian Bowen got what $7000? That's opposed to the $100K he got for enrolling at Louisville.  

These are the type of violations that get players ruled ineligible. Aside from vacating wins, I'm not seeing further penalties to schools and coaches. The exception would be when coaches were dumb enough to cooperate with the agents. Maybe coaches already involved with bagmen are dumb enough to get caught on tape with agents too. 

This barely matters to me in relation to their horrific treatment of sexual abuse victims. I hope more questions continue to be asked about their pattern of covering up abuses rather than focusing on $500.

I just got a feeling the NCAA won't do shit about this. at least nothing near what is is due for these teams

Compared to the other problems Michigan State is facing this seems minor but probably the one thing that will cost  the  program the most. 

Izzo is thought to be a great coach but the end is just around the corner.   When you cheat to get the top recruits and John Belein still beats you?

whether its 10$ or 10,000...Illegal is Illegal AND the money to the parents amounts to BRIBERY....as far as MSU goes it will be lie and deny lie and deny lie and deny just like all the other stuff floating around MSU, IZZO and Dantonio and the NCAA will take 5 years to sort this out per usual

This and - one has to assume - ever more damning allegations are what Izzo had to be thinking about when he appeared so shell-shocked a few weeks ago during the Nasser sentencing and ESPN stories. That sick look on his face had nothing to do with Nasser, Appling, Payne, or anything else related to sexual assault. 

He must believe - rightly, I suspect - that as time passes, more media outlets will uncover more of these stories that implicate him, his coaches, and his program. He probably felt pretty comfortable keeping the NCAA at arms' length; the FBI is another animal entirely. 

At this point, I'd have a hard time keeping food down or maintaining any control over my bowels and sphincter. I have to hand it to the guy; there have been no messy cleanups courtside so far. That's better than I could do.

Am I the only one that thinks that this coupled with the rape culture stuff at MSU might make the NCAA feel compelled to drop the "lack of institutional control" hammer on MSU to set an example? Either that or they'll do nothing as usual *shrug*

Bama is getting tired of winning in football now they paying basketball players. Oh yeah nothing will come out of this considering ncaa is corrupted and gets paid on its own from some of these bosters.

I have totally faith that coach B is clean. But a report like this still makes me worry that a player still could have taken some kind of loan or advance from an agency trying to get him, without Coach knowing. Because this doesn’t seem to all be about recruiting with guys from schools like seton hall and Wichita state, but also the agencies trying to get the players to sign with them

Another “hit piece” involving the dirtiest program out there.

I guess the FBI will be this year's overall No. 1 seed.

$500? lol.

I remember a few years ago when Izzo whiffed on Jabari Parker and a few other targets and had to settle for )what were for him) some weird guys.  Then, he comes back guns blazing in 2016 with Bridges, Langford, Winston and Ward.   It was proclaimed by Izzo to be his best class ever. It seemed then that he must have come to some realization, that to compete with the big boys he was going to have to start playing a little (more) dirty.  I think we are seeing the fruit of that now.