Fellow coaches would love to have a beer with Tom Izzo, poll says
CBS Sports polls 110 anonymous college basketball coaches; 10% say they'd take a night out with the Spartans coach
College basketball coaches around the country have spoken: Michigan State's Tom Izzo would be a solid candidate for a night out with a brewski.
CBS Sports polled 110 anonymous college hoops coaches over the summer, asking them a variety of fun questions leading up to the 2016-17 season. One of those questions: "Who's the college coach you'd most like to have a beer with?"
Though 29% said they would get a beer with West Virginia's Bob Huggins and 15% said they'd go with Kansas' Bill Self, 10% said they would pick Izzo.
"Izzo -- with a bottle of red," one coach anonymously responded.
Izzo is a solid choice, if we'd say so ourselves. He's been the Spartans' coach for two decades, reaching seven Final Fours, winning five Big Ten tournaments and a national championship in 2000; surely he has some great stories to swap.
One more interesting tidbit from CBS Sports writer Matt Norlander: "I also went about asking coaches which kind of beer or drink they'd prefer. I got everything from straight scotch to Blue Moon to Miller Lite to Bud heavy. The most common answer? Beers of the pale ale variety -- though I did have five coaches tell me they'd choose vodka and cranberry. That was not expected. One coach told me he'd like to wear a fedora while having a Corona on the beach with Buzz Williams. Let that image sink in."
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