Michigan State Spartans men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo has a legitimate case as the most iconic active coach in the sport, but that doesn’t mean he’s happy with the state of affairs at his school.
Izzo has made it clear that he is ‘disgusted’ with the turmoil surrounding his school, following the departures of both Michigan State’s athletic director and president, with president Kevin Guskiewicz departing for Clemson and athletic director J Batt leaving Monday to take the same role at Kentucky.
“There’s other dominos that get affected when things go wrong like that,” Izzo said, according to ESPN. “I’m very upset about it, and I’m sick of it.”
Guskiewicz cited an “unsustainable situation” created by differing perspectives among board members as factoring into his departure from MSU in a May 27 letter to the Spartan community.
“At times, too much energy has been spent revisiting past conflicts and internal disagreements rather than focusing collectively on the opportunities and aspirations ahead of us,” Guskiewicz’s letter read.
“While I firmly believe we are all better when there is a diversity of viewpoints informing decisions, our ability to make meaningful progress is hampered when disagreements move from offering alternative perspectives into publicly undermining decisions and putting personal interests above the best interests of the university and our faculty, staff and students.”
“What happened with our president is ridiculous,” Izzo said of the situation. “He said it, we know the reasons, and I’m ashamed and disgusted, hurt.
“Spartan Nation better stand up, all 600,000 of them.”
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