Michigan State coach Tom Izzo and his staff aren’t involved in playing players to suit up for the Spartans.
That much was made clear last fall in federal court and it was reiterated on Wednesday as Christian Dawkins, the former runner for an NBA agent, testified in New York in his own defense in the bribery trial surrounding the FBI’s investigation into corruption in college basketball.
“I wanted (Brian Bowen) to go to Michigan State,” Dawkins said, according to college basketball reporter Adam Zagoria, who posted the comment on Twitter. “Tom Izzo told me flat out they WEREN'T going to pay him.