Tom Izzo had Gary Harris on his shortlist.
The legendary Michigan State basketball coach desperately wanted to earn a commitment from Harris when he was an elite two-sport athlete at Hamilton Southeastern in Fishers, Ind., and he pleaded with his wife, Lupe, to take the recruiting trip with him.
“You gotta come down with me, we gotta go to a football game,” Izzo told Lupe.
They hopped aboard a small King Air model plane and soon after the skies opened up during the flight and it began pouring.
“‘We get to the game,’ I say, ‘Come on, we gotta do this for our future!