WE LOVE IZZO photos - it is everywhere

WE LOVE IZZO spreads across Michigan

The "WE LOVE IZZO" campaign is in full bloom. AS noted in today's Lansing State Journal, thousands of signs, banners, and what-have-you-nots are decorating the greater Lansing area in a sway to KEEP IZZO AT MICHIGAN STATE. The ES saw signs up and down Okemos Road by the Meridian Mall, just this afternoon.

Check out the website and support the cause, anything we can do to keep our beloved coach from making a decision that speaks to his and our hearts - Izzo BELONGS at Michigan State.

http://weloveizzo.com/

Izzo to Cleveland: a "heartbreak"

Best commentary yet on Izzo and MSU vs Cleveland:

The Outcome

The objective sports fan has to wonder, is this really about money? Tom Izzo makes more than three million a season in Michigan and lives like a king. A move to the NBA could be a mistake. While his large bank account would get even bigger, what if it didn't work out?

Just as LeBron James belongs in a Cleveland Cavalier uniform, Tom Izzo should be seen pacing the sidelines of the Breslin Center. If Tom Izzo leaves this school, it will be a mistake for his career and heartbreak for the loyal fans of Michigan State.

Tom, if you're reading this, please do the sports world a favor: Stay in East Lansing where you belong and bring the MSU another national title.

As one MSU grad stated today, "The waiting is the hardest part." Good luck Mr. Izzo. In every sense of the word, the ball is in your court.
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Izzo to Announce on Saturday

Izzo will make announcement on Saturday. MSU or Cleveland Cavaliers?

As Tom Waits says,

... and so you ask me
what I'm doing here
holding up a lamp post
flippin this quarter,
trying to make up my mind

and if it's heads I'll go to
(Cleveland), and tails I'll (stay at State)...
if it lands on the edge
I'll keep talking to you

Izzo in closed door meeting: Friday afternoon

Izzo only got fitted for his championship rings with the players, but likely gave them a hint of what is going on...

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UPDATE: Izzo Back To Work At MSU
MSU Group Organizes Impromptu Rally

POSTED: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
UPDATED: 4:47 pm EDT June 11, 2010
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State Basketball Coach Tom Izzo is back to work in East Lansing and has meet with the basketball team.

Izzo was at his office at the Breslin Center and the team showed up at 3:20 p.m.

After the players left the closed-door meeting, the players would only tell Local 4's Katrina Hancock that they were there to get fitted for their Big Ten Championship rings.

None of the players would comment on Izzo.

Izzo returned home to Lansing Thursday around 11:30 p.m. not saying much, but plenty of apologies after meeting with the Cleveland Cavaliers about a possible job as head coach.

"I'm sorry I can't tell you guys more," Izzo said.

Uh oh. Not good news.

UPDATE: Izzo Calls Team Meeting
MSU Group Organizes Impromptu Rally

POSTED: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
UPDATED: 3:39 pm EDT June 11, 2010

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State Basketball Coach Tom Izzo has called a closed-door team meeting Friday afternoon.

Izzo lead the team into the basketball operations building at 3:20 p.m.

There is no word on what he is talking about with his team, but Local 4's Katrina Hancock is outside of the building waiting for public comment.

Izzo returned home to Lansing Thursday around 11:30 p.m. not saying much, but plenty of apologies after meeting with the Cleveland Cavaliers about a possible job as head coach.

"I'm sorry I can't tell you guys more," Izzo said.

Izzo, his wife, Lupe, and their two children returned on a private jet from touring the Cavaliers facility, got into their car and drove off.Izzo said he was not aware there was an impromptu rally.

MSU basketball fans held an impromptu rally outside the Breslin Center in East Lansing to persuade Izzo to stay at the school.

ESPN said it appears Izzo is very close to moving ahead and is mulling over a contract worth $6 million.Overall, he declined to discuss the trip, but when asked about a timetable, Izzo said. "It's not gonna be forever, that's for sure."Local 4's Katrina Hancock went to Cleveland.

Izzo: MSU vs Cavaliers. Still a jump ball.

No decision by Izzo yet: Larry Lage, AP report.

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo writes in a text message to The Associated Press that he still hasn't made a decision about coaching the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Izzo's text message was received late Friday morning.

The longtime Spartans' coach flew to Cleveland on Thursday and visited with members of the Cavs' front office and coaching staff. He returned to Lansing, Mich. late Thursday night.

No heir apparent at MSU

Here it why Izzo must stay. Best article yet on the "coaching crater" that Izzo would leave behind if he splits town.

Bottom line: He has yet to establish an heir apparent, and the timing is very poor for Michigan State in trying to find a replacement for the upcoming season -- beyond Brian Gregory at Dayton.

Follow your heart.

Tom Izzo: one word of advice.

FOLLOW YOUR HEART.

Will he stay or will he go?

Choice 1: East Lansing, $3 million/year, NCAA, ready for another title run in '11

Choice 2: Cleveland, $6 million/year, NBA, LeBron James

Tom Izzo – win another title! Please stay.

"I've taken the no-comment-on-all-of-it policy, which is a little bit unlike Tom Izzo," he said on WILS radio in Lansing, Mich. "But I've been very consistent with that. And maybe to close it up, I would just say there are so many things out there that are so far-fetched right now.

"I'm the Michigan State coach and that's what I'm going to do right now. Who knows what the future brings? But it sure isn't at all like it's maybe being speculated."