There's that word again: culture! It's there or it isn't.
Who but Tom Izzo and the respected 41-year continuity of the Jud Heathcote-Izzo regime could have influenced upcoming sophomore Miles Bridges to delay his millionaire status?
Bridges' decision projects a lopsided 2018 Big Ten basketball race and turns Michigan State into a top-5 team with NCAA title potential.
Why is Bridges remaining in college while the nation's other top dozen freshmen are apparently turning pro ... while even his mother wanted him to go?
Importantly, he's a "Flintstone" carrying the tradition of super-athletes from Flint — Mateen Cleaves, Morris Peterson, Antonio Smith, Charlie Bell — who exploded on campus in the late 1990s.