Tom Izzo Should be Done

[Waquoit]

As far as coaching strategy goes, his team was a -17 after he went off on the kid.

 

[Martin]

Izzo should have ordered the code red through his assistant to the players on the team. Seriously, maybe it happens out of sight, but if a drill sergeant ever laid a violent hand or physically restrained a recruit AND it was captured on video, he would be punished or finished. Screaming at the recruit without touching, however, is acceptable. I think this would be an analogous comparison.

Imagine Dershowitz (sp?) defending Mich St or Izzo in court. He calls Dranond Green to the stand and asks him to point out the page in the basketball program where code red is! Lol

 

[Rocktheworld]

Extremely disappointed

That this thread has made it 8 pages without the phrase “pussification of America” being sputtered

 

[Stinger92860]

Something I’ve observed to be almost universally true in life, is that people who feel the need to publicly blast other peoples moral mistakes or moral short comings, often aren’t the most moral themselves.

The more of a public champion for morality someone is by shaming someone else’s moral shortcomings, the less secure they are with their own morality.

Just like how bullies make fun of other people because they are insecure with themselves.

Maybe the posters on here calling for Izzos head really are the children of god and perfect in their life. But it’s unlikely.

lol, based on this reply, I believe you are a child of god and perfect in life.

 

[Jaker]

Extremely disappointed

That this thread has made it 8 pages without the phrase “pussification of America” being sputtered

Haha

 

[Waquoit]

Extremely disappointed

That this thread has made it 8 pages without the phrase “pussification of America” being sputtered

Because it's 2021, I'm thinking.

 

[tentoes4rings]

Who are you to tell us what is appropriate or inappropriate?
too many cream puffs in the country today.
Man Up.

100%. The snowflakes are killing this country.

 

[DMIL]

Cool. Throw him on the bench to start the second half. Pull him aside after he calms down. There are many ways to coach without physically grabbing and then running down your players. Both let their emotions get the best of them but only Izzo physically did anything. It was not appropriate. I'm sure he'll hear about it from the AD, and they'll all move on with life.

I'm sure you'd be okay if your boss did this to you when you screwed up at work, right?

I think so many people miss the point here. These are grown men, adults; young but adults nonetheles. It’s 2021 and you can’t do that as a coach. You can’t do it at work, or in the classroom or anywhere else. The coaches behavior was overly aggressive in this situation. The player was walking away and did what he needed to do. No one on this board in a college class would think it was acceptable for a professor or any administrator to physically grab them like that. No one would be o.k. with it so why are so many people on this board o.k. with it? I think folks should really think about this. Why is it o.k. for this player to accept this from his coach but no one else would in their college class, job, church or anyone else.

With that said Izzo should not be fired however there should be a reprimand by the University and an apology to the player and his family.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Because it's 2021, I'm thinking.

People are still talking about this incident in March 2021?

 

[Chief00]

He shouldn't have grabbed him but that's hardly a fireable offense

When Jim Calhoun felt he had to explain himself after someone wrote an article about his language, he said sometimes I need to use the expletive word just to get their attention. Players get a lot of idolation and often start believing it themselves, so Jim had to give them a wake up call and get their attention before he could get into the details of what they had to work on.