Michigan State men's basketball coach Tom Izzo calls the Larry Nassar sexual-abuse scandal, during which he was controversially lumped into the story along with then-head football coach Mark Dantonio in a report published by ESPN in 2018, "the darkest time of my career."
"Nothing compared to those two, three years," Izzo said during a recent two-day interview with journalist Graham Bensinger, with excerpts released Wednesday.
Izzo said he was most bothered by the main graphic that went along with the ESPN investigation, published in January 2018 and titled, "Michigan State secrets extend far beyond Larry Nassar case," showing Nassar in the middle, with Izzo on one side of him, and Dantonio on the other.