Couch: 37 years after they first met, MSU’s Tom Izzo and Tennessee’s Rick Barnes still have care and respect for each other
Tennessee basketball coach Rick Barnes remembers vividly the day he met Tom Izzo. They were in Columbus, Ohio, recruiting a local guard named Eli Brewster in 1986, both of them young assistant coaches — Barnes at Ohio State, Izzo at Michigan State. “Right from the very beginning, the first time I met him, he just has a great way of making you feel comfortable,” Barnes said.
Source: Lansing State Journal