00:00I don't agree with Tom Izzo a lot on some of his stances,
00:02whether it's college basketball, how he deals with his players,
00:05what do you have you?
00:06But the one thing I do know is that he's one of the last old school mentality
00:09guys that's left in college basketball.
00:12Listen to what topic he's talking about right here.
00:15I'm going to get myself in trouble, but I,
00:18I listen to people talk about how kids changed.
00:25Kids aren't the problem.
00:27We're the problem.
00:28But this was sprung on us again yesterday where a guy can be in the G League
00:37for two or three years and then all of a sudden he's eligible.
00:41Most of my people knew nothing about it.
00:43I don't think our commissioner, I mean,
00:45I am not real excited about the NCAA or whoever's making these decisions
00:49without talking to us, just letting it go because they're afraid
00:53they're going to get sued.
00:54So you're right.
00:55I said that this really bothers your coach if you're Michigan State fans,
01:00but if you want a silver lining in a cloud, I am going to call Magic tonight.
01:04I'm going to call Jaron Jackson, Miles, Gary, Max.
01:11You know, this just goes to show you how ridiculous people,
01:17people that are in power make decisions.
01:22That's my opinion.
01:24Only my opinion.
01:25So don't be mad at anybody else.
01:26Be mad at us.
01:27But I'm not going to be mad at the players.
01:29I'm going to be mad at the adults in the room.
01:31He's right.
01:32He's a thousand percent right.
01:34Like what happens if Cooper Flagg, hey, man, made all this money in the NBA.
01:37I'm 27 years old, played seven years in the league.
01:39Let me go back to Duke and win a national championship and nobody can stop him.
01:42There has to be adults in the room that make sane decisions,
01:45which isn't happening a lot in the NCAA right now, Joe.
01:48No, it doesn't.
01:50I mean, and he went on to say in that interview, too, and it's right.
01:54You know, here's Tom Izzo walking into a 17, 18-year-old's house, sitting on the couch,
02:00trying to get their freshman son to come and sign and play basketball at Michigan State.
02:05And they, you know, he gets him to sign and that's good to go.
02:08And he's willing to go through the process.
02:10And then all of a sudden, now there's a 23-year-old coming from the G League that's going to step in.
02:15And all of a sudden, that freshman ain't going to sniff the court.
02:18Like, it just, it's not fair across the board.
02:21You can't be having these situations where it's not a level playing field for everybody across the board,
02:28especially the kids who I didn't know I was going to have to deal with a dude
02:32who's been playing with grown men for the last four years.
02:34Like, it makes absolutely no sense, Donnie.
02:36I'm with the coach on this one.
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