Tom Izzo gets into altercation with Ohio fan
https://twitter.com/joerexrode
"Tom Izzo just had to be pulled away from an OSU fan taunting him. He didn't lunge but there were words and he was yanked away."
Most of the stuff that Ohio fans say is pretty vulgar but you have to restrain yourself as a coach. I'm sure that Beilein has had stuff twice as bad said to him being Michigan's coach but he just walks away.
I dunno about that, Izzo is a polarizing figure where as Beilein is just plain chill
Which is why you can say worse to Beilein and he doesn't react because Izzo doesn't have a quarter of the class Beilein has. My dad calls Izzo "little Hitler." I think it's funny.
I think "Little Hitler" is extreme...but it looks like the fan he got into an altercation with was a girl?!?!?!
"Tom Izzo on the OSU fan: "She was a jerk ... You want the truth or you want me to lie?"" From the same link above.
Please change the title to "Izzo Assaults Ohio Coed".
...a bit extreme, but as far as we know, Izzo doesn't have a single player of Jewish descent on his team. So, there's that.
March 10th, 2014 at 11:56 AM ^
Mädchen.
Always makes me think of this...
March 10th, 2014 at 10:30 AM ^
to Hitler. ba dum bum ching
I'm sure Beilein, as coach of the Wolverines, gets a warm reception when he visits Columbus, since he's such a chill guy.
March 10th, 2014 at 11:57 AM ^
the Ohio Deli in C-bus makes some pretty good subs.
is head of the coaches ethics committee;
Izzo is why Beilein is the head of the coaches ethics committee.
of his life.
I could see him having a Woody Hayes moment someday. He's cracking now that Michigan is passing his program.
Trouble is, I'm afraid he might punch out one of his own players.
That would make him Bob Knight?
Punching and choking are not the same thing.
Your username reads great with basically any comment. I read that as well, well, well, wouldn't that make him Bob Knight?
... to use that player's injury as an excuse, if he was the culprit.
Hitting the player may hurt Izzo's wrist which would affect team shooting.
March 10th, 2014 at 11:05 AM ^
I wonder if Izzo might feel personally marginalized by the success MSU's football team has experienced - particularly this year. Subtle competition between sports in college athletic programs is probably fairly common.
in the Lansing area that Tom is on the way out. He's been HC as long as Heathcote, he's losing his edge in the recruiting wars (not just to Michigan but to other schools as well) and his teams are underperforming. Now he's getting persnickety with OSU fans. Understandable, but still unprofessional. . .
Per a Rexrode tweet:
Tom Izzo on the OSU fan: "She was a jerk ... You want the truth or you want me to lie?"
Emphasis mine. I'm also really sick of Izzo's "I'm a hero who tells it like it is" shtick. Put Beilein in that situation, which he would never be in to begin with, and he'd say something apologetic about how he's embarrassed and he just can't do that. Put Izzo in that situation and he runs his mouth, knowing that no one will ever ask for her side of the story anyway. I find that guy as unlikable as any coach in college sports right now who's not named Bret Bielema, Lane Kiffin, or John Calipari.
... afterwards...
Plus Urban
I realize this is blasphemy, but if Urban weren't at OSU, I don't think I'd really mind him. Sure, there's stuff about him I don't like, but that's true of most top coaches. On the other hand, even if Izzo had been at Purdue or Kentucky all of these years, I still think I'd really dislike the guy (if I saw as much of him as I do now and felt like I knew his act as well as I do now).
Urban isn't a dick like Izzo, he's a snake. The way he quit on Florida after getting dismantled by Alabama says it all. You'd think a school where he won two national titles would love him, but they don't. He quit on Florida and going to probably an even more demanding job after ''retiring for health reasons and to spend more time with family'' is and will always be BS. He is what's wrong with college football.
Fair enough.
I resent your signature, by the way.
I'm sure they buy hot dogs and coke for the visiting coaches.
What a man. Goes after a female student. You are absolutely right. Beilein wouldn't be in that situation but if he or anyone on the team was, he would apologize and say it's unacceptable and not something he condones.
Well, she probably was a truck driver.
I used to really like him 5-10 years ago. He didn't need to make silly comments degrading Michigan like Dantonio does. I think he's still more classy than Dantonio but now he's all excuses when his team isn't playing well.
Class is determined by how you react to losing.
Izzo has no class.
He was still a dick for leaving his starters in against us up 50 points, then goes to the press conference and acts smug about it.
Didn't degrade us because what would the point have been at that time? Dick then, dick now, please take the Pistons job because I consider the Pistons more comedy entertainment than competitive entertainment at this point.
Take the keys to the internet; it's yours.
March 10th, 2014 at 12:04 AM ^
best thing posted today. I just keep on laughing.
I regret that I only have one upvote to give. Looks like you got a few others.
title from the media. If he wins, he's somewhat classy. But if he loses, he whines, makes excuses, and now apparently yells at women.
Putting the "assy" in classy, I guess.
I'm definitely trying the "you put the assy in classy" line the next time I'm at the bar.
Nah, that's my closing line.
Then again, I'm so smooth that my opening line usually is my closing line.