In case you missed it, over the weekend there was a big fight in the college basketball world involving coaches and players, when Michigan head coach Juwan Howard took a swing at a Wisconsin team member.
Now the excuses are flying as fast and furious as the punches.
Because certain coaches like Howard are unable to maintain sportsmanship, some in sports media are asking if post-game handshakes should be banned.
This question was posed to Michigan's cross-state rival coach, Michigan State's Tom Izzo, and he had some thoughts:
That to me, would be the biggest farce, joke, ridiculous nature of anything I've ever heard of.
We could leave it there but I'll let the man continue:
We've already taught these poor 18-year-olds that when you're told to go to class and you don't like it you can leave. We've already told these kids if you're not happy you can do something else. We've already told these kids that it's hard to hold 'em accountable.
And now we're gonna tell them to not man-up and walk down a line, and someone that's kicked your butt and have enough class to shake their hand, is utterly ridiculous.
If the president said it, I think he's full of it. If the best coach in America said it, I think - that gets me way more than this incident. Not shaking hands.
That's typical of our country, right now, you know?
Instead of solving the problem let's make an excuse and see if we can- instead of confronting and demanding that it changes, let's eliminate it so that we don't have those problems...
If some team decides not to shake hands you're gonna see 15 of my guys walk down and shake air, and then we're gonna leave.
