Holy sh!t…that was a real quote?!
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When he’s not driving Aaron Henry’s, yes
I love Brendan tho.
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Jamal Cain and Greg Elliot combined for 16 for Marquette in the win. 9-10 FT accuracy.
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Izzo, earlier in the week when they won at Cameron for the first time: “I know one thing: I’m not gonna put this as an asterisk.”
What a clown.
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I like Wisconsin
He isn’t. See Payne and Appling.
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Thanks for making me puke a little.
Izzo’s a jerk in multiple ways, no doubt about it. Last night you had a college kid exhibit more maturity and humanity in defeat than Izzo did in victory.
(Which is not a comment on the topic of why people are loyal to him and stick around him. That’s different.)
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I don’t think Izzo meant it as a slight, but it was dumb to insinuate they struggled so much because they couldn’t out together a good enough scouting report
I’m reading this 16 hours after you posted it and I know the exact play you are talking about! 
It really did get to be hero ball for UD down the stretch, but there were no heroes. Just when they needed to take good shots UD took some awful shots including that one by the coach’s son!
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You could be right, and I can’t read his mind or look into his soul, but he’s been doing post-game press conferences for 25 years, and he’s an intelligent person who understands that setting. He does this often. Now and again he’s in a charitable mood, and I’ve seen press conferences from him where he can be almost a bit sentimental and love-of-the-gameish about it in a way that makes you wonder if he’s dropped his guard. This more-common churlish approach in which he chalks up the opposition’s success to luck or his own program’s failure is a calculated routine he thinks is good.
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I’m sorry, describing a kid as “a guy that scored 1 point at St. Bonaventure” is absolutely meant to imply the kid sucks and could only succeed because Izzo was wrong-footed.
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There was a time when I thought MSU was a program with a lot of bad kids (Appling, Payne, Walton, etc) coached by a bad guy. In recent years they’ve seem to have taken kids i mostly like (Winston and Tillman seem like great people, I always liked Gary Harris too). Izzo, his tolerance of quite a bit of bad behavior in those years aside, has just never progressed beyond “petty”.
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Anyone who has read Mitch Albom’s Fab Five book knows what kind of complex Izzo has. He’s a great coach, a HOFer, etc…but deep down he’ll always be the guy who couldn’t get the pretty girl to go out with him in high school.
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I definitely feel like they had more cheap shot artists 10 years ago, but maybe it was just that there was a bigger contrast with all of Beilein’s suburban boys who, aside from Novak, didn’t have much toughness or edge.
I’ll always be grateful that he reported C-Webb for getting that free Gophers sweatshirt on his recruiting trip even though there was no chance he was going there!
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Pretty wild that Tyler Wahl is getting more tick than Potter in their in-state rivalry game.
Obviously a pretty classic example of the evils of the two foul rule - Potter scores 7 early, hits the bench with two fouls, and finishes with…2 fouls.
That wasn’t Izzo, it was Clarence Underwood, then a compliance officer, later AD.
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Here’s some of the latest details I’ve seen on the Bates/Akins drama. Bates camp seems extremely problematic if this narrative is correct.
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Not to blame this on Akins because it’s an awful and unfair situation for him, but what did he expect when he agreed to play for a school that exists solely for the benefit of Emoni Bates?
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