Great work, as usual, and thank you in particular for both of these passages: Read more

Thank you! As someone that grew up with a loving but “yelly” father I have tried to change with my kids and feel regretful on the occasions I explode. It doesn’t work. All it does is scare the crap out of them and make them think I am some sort of psycho. It doesn’t gain respect etc. Talking to them like a human is… Read more

You’re right, coach. When I think “accountability,” I think Michigan State. Read more

If a coach can’t teach or motivate his players without screaming at them, he has failed as a coach. Izzo’s a fine coach. His player would want to win the game without being screamed at. They would hear whatever he was trying to inform them about in terms of boxing out or rotating on defense. The screaming is just… Read more

“I don’t know what kind of business you’re in, but I tell ya what, if I was a head of a newspaper, and you didn’t do your job, you’d be held accountable.” Read more

“I don’t know what kind of business you’re in, but I tell ya what, if I was a head of a newspaper, and you didn’t do your job, you’d be held accountable.” Read more

CAD and the like bled the artistry out of the field. Read more

So in Dystopian Future Washington, giants will have snowball fights while small people play ice hockey and dinner-plate size snowflakes fall in front of the sun-drenched 20-story facade of the gladiatorial arena. Got it. Read more

You’ll notice renderings on the construction fence of every building going up in NYC. I saw one in the Bronx where someone (with a sharpie) pointed out that all the people in the rendering were white and that the new apartment building was therefore not for black people. Read more

These are all uniformly and insanely ugly but not unique to stadiums - you see this sort of stuff done for any public facing project, be it condo, mall, or whatever. Read more

My grandfather was an architect, and his elevations and other renderings were works of art. (Literally: We have some framed.) CAD and the like bled the artistry out of the field. Read more

Oh good. Those gray blobs are just bad photoshop. I thought I had been blocked.

I have zero problem with the yelling. Read more

My 12-year-old son played basketball this season and had a coach who might privately complain to me (the assistant coach) about players’ attitudes and ineptitude, but he never once yelled at the boys. He always encouraged and redirected positively. And the boys really were better for it. They built confidence and… Read more

I’m bemused that Izzo, who makes how many millions of dollars, behaved like a 5-year-old when interacting with an actual 18-year-old. He should be embarrassed. Would a professor at this esteemed academic institution be forgiven for acting the same way? Read more

You’re right, he doesn't work in an office. He works at a fucking school. Read more

NO OTHER coach has gotten more mileage out of an almost two-decade-old championship than Izzo. Also, he’s a scumbag who enabled his players to do horrible things, allegedly.  Read more

College basketball head coaching suffers from what we call the “BMW Paradox.” We’re not sure whether you have to be a raging asshole to acquire that position, or if you just morph into a raging asshole after you acquire it? Read more

Why should he be? He’s volunteering his time to coach those unpaid young adults and they can’t even be bother to do exactly as he tells them to pinpoint precision, without the slightest error? Read more

I’m sure a scene like this will make it into the next “A Day in the Life of a NCAA Athlete” video. Read more