A great story about Tom Izzo and his struggles this season.

A whole lot about Nick Saban and the issues of NIL and the portal.

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"There's good guys around, I just gotta get more of them where the program matters, the team matters," Izzo said. "There's nothing wrong with NIL, there's nothing wrong with transferring, but when you can do it because you don't like something that was said to you, or whatever some of these guys are. 'I had to work a little harder, so I'm going to leave,' I just think it's ridiculous. And if I get sick of that, that's what would get me out."

"That's why I say more things publicly. How many coaches you think feel just like me?" he said. "I don't begrudge anybody. If I have to take a transfer for next year, I'll take a transfer. I'm just hoping I can keep my culture. I'm hoping I can do it the way — and some of it depends on the kids I have, and so on. It depends on the opportunities they have — if I got a kid, and all of a sudden, somebody offers him a zillion dollars to go, he's probably going and then I'm the one that has to adjust."

Izzo believes Saban, 72, got out for a lot of NIL and portal-related reasons. They met as coaching pups in the 1980s, when they were still finding their place in their respective sports.
"Nick is a class guy. You'd be surprised. His bark's way worse than his bite and he's loyal as the day is long," Izzo said. "We recruited together, we fundraised together. I just feel like he was always a coach's coach. I came from small-town America, he came from smaller-town America. And I always appreciated that about him. He never forgot where he came from. After games I'd go to his house, he'd have some of the people from West Virginia there. It was awesome. Nick's a regular guy that did an extraordinary job."