'Tom Izzo no longer belongs in the one-title club. Two Timer. That’s the goal this weekend,' MitchAlbom writes.
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Here’s what happened next: Webber went to two Final Fours with Michigan, but came home empty. Izzo replaced Heathcote as the head coach at MSU, in 1995, and this weekend is in his eighth Final Four, with one championship in the trophy case and another in his sights. NEWSLETTERSThank you! You're almost signed up for SportsKeep an eye out for an email to confirm your newsletter registration.More newslettersBut in March Madness, you — and your players — not only lose the game, you lose a title shot, a year’s worth of work, maybe even a legacy.It’s what direction the wind will blow this time.
But it’s not lost on him that this week he is the pride and savior of our local sports scene — the Red Wings, Tigers, Pistons and Lions have no real chance at a title — and yet only last year, he was feeling a national finger wag when MSU was under scrutiny for the Larry Nassar crisis. “All I can do is learn from it. All I can do is try and better myself and, maybe as important as anything, better society. Because a lot of these things are social problems. And so that’s kind of been a new mission for me. I’m not gonna hide from it. I’m gonna learn from it.”
“He goes, 'Coach, I love you,' ” Izzo recalls. “He goes ‘I was watching, and I jumped up at the TV myself . And I laughed and said ‘You should tell Aaron that sometime.’ And he goes, 'Coach, I just got off the phone with him. I’ve been talking to him the last 20 minutes!' ” “I get a kick out of some people on TV that say when you’re 18 you’re a man — you should be able to make your own decisions,” Izzo says. “Hell, I was 35 and still calling my dad saying, ‘What do you think about this? What do you think about that?’
So a second NCAA title, like Jay Wright or Billy Donovan has, isn’t because Izzo is owed it. But he does need it. Getting to the last weekend eight times means you have a good program. Capturing it all means something else.
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