OT: Yahoo Report now ties MSU Asst. Dwayne Stephens to ASM via Email
This is a new report that just dropped moments ago, and it is starting to get harder and harder for the MSU basketball program to deny they did anything improper. The new report shows and email Christian Dawkins sent to his boss Andy Miller detailing that Stephens wanted to "trade" Miles Bridges & Gary Harris(assuming this meant Izzo or Stephens would convince them to sign with ASM) for the chance of obtaining Brian Bowen. It is a slow drip, but I have a feeling Yahoo Sports has a lot of these documents up their sleeve that they will reveal over the next few weeks leading up to March Madness.
February 24th, 2018 at 10:21 AM ^
But rather than being part of a package deal, I took it as Bridges to Michigan would go from 0% chance to a long shot. And that's just from gauging his interest. If there was something shady in his recruitment, Beilein would back off.
February 24th, 2018 at 9:49 AM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 9:53 AM ^
- We (Michigan) were a dirty program in the 90s, but so was every other major program at that time. We were no more dirty than anyone else.
- Michigan is clean now, so they stay out of Chicago all together.
- Michigan State is a dirty program now, but uses Dwayne Stevens to do the dirty work, not Izzo.
- Duke is dirty as all hell, but the recruitment of Jabari Parker was relatively clean.
- To some of the Chicago kids, Amaker was the “whitest” coach they’ve met during the recruiting process.
My third bullet is most relevant to the OP and aligns well to it.
February 24th, 2018 at 9:57 AM ^
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February 24th, 2018 at 5:03 PM ^
Im not willing to rush to judgement on the Yahoo report and we definately need more information before we can begin to condemn people but this is not a media hit job. Are they being treated unfairly on social media? Yes, probably. Because thats the nature of our culture these days. Outrage with little information that makes us feel superior. Thanks for that Twitter and Facebook.
February 24th, 2018 at 9:56 AM ^
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February 24th, 2018 at 10:14 AM ^
Seriously though, those offers don't come out of the blue. It's a strong indication of a working relationship. Offering a deal like that to an honest coach would be taking an enormous risk.
There are thousands of hours of wiretapped conversations in the hands of the feds. Leaking the info in the Yahoo stories may be a way to pressure coaches to cooperate. I'm sure they would love to know which of their conversations were recorded.
February 24th, 2018 at 12:25 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 9:59 AM ^
is a first installment.
February 24th, 2018 at 10:02 AM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 10:36 AM ^
Does anyone remember a rather suspect posting from years back regarding a retired Chicago basketball coach telling the poster that Dwayne Stephens was MSU's bagman for the Chicago area? In the posting it was related that Coach Beilein was "not to be trusted". Anyone?
February 24th, 2018 at 10:44 AM ^
but it wasn't that Jb wasn't to be trusted. it was that top chicago kids didn't want to go to UM, because they play "white boy basketbal". not my words, what i remember the post saying.
February 24th, 2018 at 10:47 AM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 10:42 AM ^
i knew him when i was a kid. awesome, straight up dude. now that he's passed, i take a little solace in that he isn't around to see this happening at msu.
February 24th, 2018 at 4:26 PM ^
Yes, Jud and Ron Mason were straight-up coaches...neither of whom would fit in there today.
February 24th, 2018 at 10:48 AM ^
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February 24th, 2018 at 11:01 AM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 11:18 AM ^
What a joke. NCAA says no big deal, go ahead and play Bridges, Sexton, Know, and Carter. Not sure if this includes Ayton too.
Here you have evidence released by the FBI implicating coaches, players, and family of players and the NCAA's response is, "Nothing to see here folks."
February 24th, 2018 at 11:48 AM ^
Texas announced they are sitting Eric Davis and SDSU is sitting a player too. News in this scandal is moving fast.
February 24th, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
USC playing Chimezie Metu, UK playing Knox, Duke playing Carter, Boatright playing. All their schools talked to the NCAA this morning.
February 24th, 2018 at 11:22 AM ^
in Detroit area even I knew players were getting impermissible benefits and steered to certain Universities.I am so sick & tired of listening to the Media boot licking scum bags like Bilas & Vitale & the 97.1 Izzo ass kissing bloviators saying how shocked they are to hear that such paragons of virtue as Izzo & Coach K. were even tangentially involved in this.EVERYONE KNEW HOW THE GAME WAS PLAYED.....Many Universities had a 'guy' in Detroit ,in Flint etc.who steered kids to their University.For example,George Raveling (currently working for Nike) Head Coach of Iowa had his guy who delivered players such as B.J.Armstrong (Detroit) and Roy Marble (Flint).Paul Evans Head Coach of Pitt had his guy who delivered Demetreus Gore and so on...Anyone on TV who says they are 'shocked' are lying shills,it's the equivalent of someone saying they're 'shocked' to hear that Madonna is not a virgin.
February 24th, 2018 at 12:26 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 11:23 AM ^
Thank you John Beilein! Last night the talking heads on ESPN were saying nothing will happen to Bridges or should it because you are only talking about 400.00, in the emails on the ATM receipt the 400.00 is labeled a" advance "to Bridges mom. Spartans can act as if Izzos name is not tied this all they want but their boat is taking on water
February 24th, 2018 at 11:48 AM ^
Suspended Steve Alford for posing for a picture that appeared in a Calander for a Charity,he received no money.The NCAA are always making sure that there isn't even a hint of any Student-Athlete doing anything to jeopardize their Amatuer status.
February 24th, 2018 at 12:19 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 12:45 PM ^
Do people understand that this is only one of many sports agents out there who specialize in signing up teenagers for professional representation? This came out of a result of the Adidas company paying for high school players to attend certain schools. What about Nike and Reebok? I can almost guarantee that Nike has a lot of skeletons in their closet. What about the dozens of other sports agents that will make Dawkins and Miller seem like amateurs? Basketball is a big problem, but football may end up being even worse. The bagmen need to go to jail for fraud and non-payment of taxes, and the agent companies and athletic equipment companies need to be fined to near-bankruptcy status. This has been going on way too long and the NFL and NBA have been complicit through their silence and inaction. Every single person guilty of aiding and abetting this corruption of the collegiate system needs to go down and be banned from professional and collegiate sports for life!
February 24th, 2018 at 2:33 PM ^
Give me our brand of arrogance any day of the week.
It's almost breathtaking how openly things were being discussed... in email! They probably can be excused for not thinking about their phone lines being tapped, but to put all this in email format is something else.
Interesting too that rival agencies are mentioned - tip of the iceberg no doubt. What agency did Bridges sign with?
February 24th, 2018 at 3:25 PM ^
I certainly am by no means implying that this is all OK, but think about what you are saying for a minute.
These are agents, doing agency work and securing future business for their agency. You just can't expect them to not be communicating via company means. These are employees reporting to their bosses on their work. In their (the agents') minds much of this is just doing business as usual, so why wouldn't they use company email? The agents aren't under the gun here for most of the things we are irate about.
It's other things the agents did that the FBI is investigating and that brought all of this to light. These emails are just evidence against the elligibility of recruits and of noncompliance withing the NCAA.
February 24th, 2018 at 12:47 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 12:56 PM ^
The problem is it's a lack of accountability people like Pete Carroll do wrong move on to the NFL without any punishment while the school gets punished and the kids who did nothing wrong are punished they need to punish the coaches take away wins and make it so they can't coach for 10 years maybe that would slow it down and fine the s*** out of them say what you will about Jim Harbaugh or John Beileins Style at least they seem to be above board
February 24th, 2018 at 12:59 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 2:57 PM ^
"Our compliance office conducted a thorough internal review. [MSU] presented its findings to the NCAA, and Miles Bridges has been cleared for competition moving forward, beginning Sunday at Wisconsin.”
~MSU Interim AD Bill Beekman
NCAA clears him, predictable.
February 24th, 2018 at 3:00 PM ^
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February 24th, 2018 at 3:29 PM ^
A thorough internal review, in less than 12 hours.
February 24th, 2018 at 3:44 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 5:32 PM ^
Yes it occurs to me that they've had complicit knowledge of this since the date of the atm transactions.
February 24th, 2018 at 4:11 PM ^