Injuries, expectations, recruiting add up to frustrating season for Izzo

Through all the injuries, the misery, the #Twitterproblems and the recruiting failures, Izzo has learned: A well-coached team with really good players can win

Michael Rosenberg | Mar 14, 2014

Injuries, expectations, recruiting add up to frustrating season for Izzo /

Despite a spate of injuries, Tom Izzo led Michigan State to a 23-8 regular-season record. — Despite a spate of injuries, Tom Izzo led Michigan State to a 23-8 regular-season record :: Duane Burleson/Getty Images

Through all the injuries, the misery, the #Twitterproblems and the recruiting failures, Izzo has learned: A well-coached team with really good players can win the national title. Perhaps even his.

Published Mar 14, 2014

MICHAEL ROSENBERG

Michael Rosenberg is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, covering any and all sports. He writes columns, profiles and investigative stories and has covered almost every major sporting event. He joined SI in 2012 after working at the Detroit Free Press for 13 years, eight of them as a columnist. Rosenberg is the author of "War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and America in a Time of Unrest." Several of his stories also have been published in collections of the year's best sportswriting. He is married with three children.