The latest bomb was dropped Friday in the FBI’s ongoing probe of college basketball. Documents and bank records obtained by Yahoo detail cash payments and travel expenses dished out by NBA agent Andy Miller, his former associate Christian Dawkins and his agency, ASM Sports, to former and current players.

Among those documents are expense reports from Dawkins. The line items include a $70.05 lunch with the parents of Michigan State star Miles Bridges at a Redwood Lodge on May 3, 2016, and an ATM withdrawal of $400 listed as “Miles Bridges mom advance” made that same day.

A lunch and a $400 payment to a parent may seem minimal, especially considering some of the current and former players included in the documents are said to have accepted as much as $73,500 in loans (former N.C. State guard Dennis Smith). But when it comes to questions about a player’s NCAA eligibility, there’s little difference between $70 and $70,000. An impermissible benefit is an impermissible benefit, and neither a player nor his parents or guardians are permitted to accept it.

There are numerous conversations stemming from Friday’s news — everything from prosecutorial overreach by the FBI, to college basketball’s unstable future, to the hypocrisy of amateurism. Putting all of that aside, though, Michigan State has an immediate decision to make on Miles Bridges.

The FBI’s documents put Bridges’ eligibility in question. This is an FBI investigation currently running parallel to an ongoing NCAA basketball season, creating myriad questions and issues. It remains unclear what documents obtained by the FBI the NCAA has or hasn’t viewed. The NCAA released a statement a few hours after the story was published, saying the investigation exposes “systematic failures” in the sport, but made no specific reference to players or programs listed in Yahoo’s report. The statement did not indicate any action the NCAA is planning to take.

MSU’s decision on Bridges resides in the athletic department’s hands. It’s highly unlikely the NCAA will step in right now and tell any program not to play an individual.

If he hasn’t already, Bridges is likely to soon meet with Michigan State’s Office of Compliance to be interviewed about what he knew. Down the line, he can expect to be interviewed by the NCAA, too. His parents, however, cannot be compelled to cooperate with an NCAA investigation or be asked to share bank records with the NCAA. The NCAA deals only with coaches and players.

Either way, the information presented in the FBI’s documents — money transferring hands from an agency’s runner — is incontrovertible when it comes to NCAA eligibility. Across the country today, programs are undoubtedly conducting reviews of these revelations and some prominent players might see their seasons end.

What this boils down to is a few options for Bridges and Michigan State:

Conduct an internal review and allow Bridges to play, hoping to make a case that no NCAA violation was committed and that Bridges’ eligibility remains intact. This seems like a highly plausible move, but comes with risk. Any program who plays an individual who could be later investigated by the NCAA and be ruled ineligible is risking those wins being vacated. As one person familiar with the NCAA process told The Athletic‘s Dana O’Neil: “For any school on the hook for a national championship, you don’t play a kid unless you want to take a chance of that banner coming down.” Sit Bridges until an NCAA investigation plays out. This is unlikely. All NCAA investigations are currently in line behind the FBI. Michigan State could rule Bridges ineligible, but issue an appeal to the NCAA that he did not know about the impermissible benefits and apply for reinstatement. Bridges would have to sit out during this appeal, but Michigan State could request it be expedited. If Michigan State pursues this scenario, the school could potentially address the situation, safeguard Bridges’ eligibility, still use Bridges in the NCAA Tournament and avoid vacating a potential Final Four appearance or national championship. The NCAA’s Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement and its reinstatement staff state that they “attempt to place the student-athlete back in the position he or she would have been prior to the violation occurring while maintaining the integrity of the Association’s values.”

As it stands, Bridges is potentially in violation of Bylaw 12.3 of the NCAA rulebook, where the NCAA notes that “agent violations are considered more serious than general extra benefit violations.” The penalty for accepting extra benefits valued between $300 to $500 is sitting out 30 percent of a team’s games and repaying the gifts. If Bridges were to be suspended for 30 percent of MSU’s games (30, so far), that would amount to nine games. If Bridges and Michigan State proactively accepted that penalty, he would sit out Sunday’s season finale vs. Wisconsin and eight postseason games. (If MSU won the Big Ten tournament — three games — and advanced through the NCAA Tournament, Bridges would be eligible for the national title game.)

Michigan State issued statements from both Tom Izzo and interim athletic director Bill Beekman on Friday afternoon.

“We are aware of the report in Yahoo! Sports,” Izzo said. “While we will cooperate with any and all investigations, we have no reason to believe that I, any member of our staff or student-athlete did anything in violation of NCAA rules.”

Beekman added that Michigan State has “proactively contacted the NCAA and Big Ten Conference” and that “there is no evidence that (Izzo) or anyone in his program, including student-athletes, did anything impermissible.”

Because the dollar amount in Bridges’ case is relatively small, he’s in a far different boat than some of the other players named in the FBI’s documents. Though he carries a major name, he’s a small part of an enormous torrent striking college basketball head-on. There’s also the likelihood that far more information — including new names and new schools — is on the way. The FBI documents reported by Yahoo present a snippet of one agency doing business. There are scores of other agencies and agents in play.

Having bypassed last year’s NBA Draft, Bridges is averaging over 17 points per game and is the unquestioned star of the No. 2-ranked team in the country. Michigan State is 27-3 overall and has already claimed at least a share of the Big Ten regular-season championship with a 15-2 record.

Bridges, a Flint native, has been a marquee talent in basketball since his early high school days and was among the top-ranked players in the 2016 recruiting class. He has long maintained that his recruitment was clean and that he never accepted any money.

“I mean, if you get caught, that might be the end of your career,” Bridges told The Athletic in October. “I wanted to play in college really bad. I don’t know — materialistic things, they don’t really get to me. So when people were offering me money, I would say no right away, because I wanted to be able to live out my college experience. But really, I don’t know, it is hard, especially because I was so young at the time — 17.”

Asked if he wanted to share any examples of someone offering extra benefits, Bridges replied: “I don’t want to throw anybody under the bus.”

Under NCAA rules, it’s permissible for student-athletes and/or their families to meet with agents or potential representatives. However, they cannot accept any benefits.

According to the documents obtained by Yahoo, Dawkins also listed dinners with a number of high-profile coaches, including Izzo. This is not a violation and it’s well known that Izzo has known Christian Dawkins since he was a child. Dawkins’ father, Lou Dawkins, is a longtime associate and a former assistant Northern Illinois coach Mark Montgomery, a former Izzo assistant. Lou Dawkins also coached Draymond Green at Saginaw High School. In June 2009, Dorian Dawkins, another of Lou Dawkins’ sons and Christian’s brother, died while participating at Michigan State’s team camp. Both Lou and Christian Dawkins had a hand in creating Dorian’s Pride, a grassroots AAU program that featured a number of the best players from Michigan.

Michigan State basketball is scheduled to travel to Wisconsin this weekend for a 1 p.m. game on Sunday. A win could give the program its first outright Big Ten regular-season championship since 2009.

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