TOM IZZO TAKES DIGGER PHELPS TO THE WOODSHED

You know how fans are always saying that announcers and analysts are against their team?

Most of the time it couldn’t be farther from the truth. But when you are watching games through the colors of your school’s alma mater, nothing will really sway your opinion.

Which brings me to ESPN douche extraordinaire Digger Phelps.

For years I heard State fans complain that Digger hated MSU because of the 1979 Final Four game.

I never believed it until recently.

On the air just a week ago, Digger complained about losing that game.

For you math wizards out there, that game was 30 FREAKIN YEARS AGO. To complain about that game borders on the delusional.

And MSU coach Tom Izzo apparently is sick of Digger and his “slow down the ball” theory of Big Ten Basketball as well.

And he absolutely berated ESPN and singled out Digger in the process…

“Why does everybody write about and why does everybody preach that defense wins championships? Pick the sport. Go ahead, pick it. Any one of you in here, pick it…But it doesn’t matter what sport you’re in. I do it every single year. I take hockey, baseball, football and basketball. I always put it up on a board or I reiterate it from a piece of paper. Who won the championship? When Baltimore was in it, best defensive team. It’s 90% of the time it happens.
“So I guess I just learned that that’s the way you have to win championships. But at the same time I want to run every time. I want to run every time. So I do get annoyed, sick of, frustrated with Digger saying, `They’re trying to slow it down.’ Well, if we tried to slow it down and scored 64, what did the other team do?

I’d love to see a response to this but of course, we will get a canned response from ESPN and their myriad of stooges.

Oh well….props to Izzo for calling them out.

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