Michigan State head men's basketball coach Tom Izzo had his weekly press conference today (video courtesy SpartanMag), and had some very interesting things to say about the direction of college basketball today with respect to NIL and its impact on the educational mission of college sports.
He was asked about the comments from St John's coach (the Creeper - yeah, that guy, Rick Pitino), in which Pitino ripped his basketball team for being "weak" and "atrocious". Izzo had not seen or read the comments from Pitino, so the commentary went off course and descended into comments from Izzo about the state of affairs of basketball players based on the current landscape involving NIL and the transfer portal.