I’m sorry if this starts to sound negative, but I really hope this resolves Monday. I respect that Izzo needs to make an informed decision and that he doesn’t owe MSU or its supporters anything, but it’s going to be “proceed or exit the bathroom” time for me personally pretty soon. At some point in time, relentlessly gathering more information ceases to be about making an wise choice and becomes a way to avoid having to make a tough call with adequate information already in front of you. I hope that’s not where Izzo is headed.

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If this is accurate, this thing is over tomorrow morning before basketball camp starts, guys.

Get Gregory on the phone. It’s over.

“still gathering”?

Is he continuing to collect information? Or is it a motionless assembly of people? I CAN’T DECIDE, TOO MUCH DRAMA.

;)

Going to bed.

I’m not sure taking an NBA job is the way to spend more time with your family, if that is his thought process. The season is longer, travel is more frequent and for longer distances, and I can’t imagine the daily practice grind is any more relaxed.

My only quibble is that, just a few short weeks ago, he said he’d never consider leaving MSU until he won another national championship – I really don’t understand why he said that and then is considering an NBA job a month or so later, but I guess a guy is entitled to change his mind.

I also don’t get the bellyaching about us not having a shot at the best recruits or having a tougher row to hoe than the other college blue bloods. Thad Matta certainly gets his fair share of 5 stars and he’s not at UNC, UK, KU or UCLA. I think there is a perception out there than Roy Williams and Coach K can just pick up the phone and get anyone they want without doing any work. That may happen from time to time when a guy knows he just has to be at UNC or wherever, but my guess is that in most cases they have to put in just as much time on the recruiting trail.

I can understand being tired of the seedier side of recruiting, though, because it makes things tough on a guy who wants to run a clean program, and isn’t really good for the kids involved either. I hope Izzo stay mostly because the team we have coming back has the potential to do special things, and having him on the sidelines would give us the best chance to make those special things happen.

What strikes me about this decision is that it is feeling far more like a business decision than a decision of the heart. In my romanticized version of the story, I was hoping that the coach would look deep within his heart and come to understand that Michigan State is the place for him. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home.
I don’t know where his heart lies, but it doesn’t feel like it is fully in Cleveland or East Lansing. When this is all over, I want whoever is our basketball coach to passionately want to be there. Every job has drawbacks and frustrations, but when you find yourself doing what you love, you accept them and grow from them.

Izzo, for all the hard work he has put into the program, is not dedicated to MSU and the BBall program. Sorry, but he shows no dedication to his players, staff, or student body. When outside forces can lure him so easy you have to wonder what motivation does he have to stay? I’m pretty sick of this whole mess where coaches get the big idea where they fit into the scheme of things.

The talk has been that ’He owes us nothing", this, after the university has provided him with the means to build his resume and rewarded him well monetarily and with elevation of his status not only in the state but nationally. I do not see him returning with the same drive to continue the job maintaining the high level State has enjoyed this past decade.