Any idea to rid college basketball of the traditional postgame handshake line in the wake of Sunday’s incident involvi coach Juwan Howar would be a “farce,” coach Tom Izzo said.
The suggestion to do away with the handshake line has come up after Howard hi assistant coach Joe Krabbenhoft in the face as tempers flared following Sunday’s game.
“That, to me, would be the biggest farce, joke, ridiculous nature of anything I’ve ever heard of,” Izzo told reporters Monday. “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 that if you’re not happy, you can do something else. We’ve already told these kids that it’s hard to hold them accountable.
“And now we’re going to tell them to not man up and walk down a line to someone who’s kicked your butt and have enough class to shake their hand is utterly ridiculous. So 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 more than this incident.”