Throughout the 2025-26 season, Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo went to the media with “we’re not as talented as other teams” and “there’s little margin for error with us” lines that weren’t wrong, but the fact that he’s OK with saying that might be the problem.
No head coach should have to repeat the “this isn’t the most talented team” line for years in a row, but Izzo is either trying to downplay his own roster or he believes that the Spartans must play perfect basketball in order to win it all nowadays based on the way he’s managing his rosters.
That’s not OK. Izzo didn’t build the program into a perennial national title contender just to fail to address key positions of need in the transfer portal every year…