Lynn Henning nails it this morning in the Detroit News:

For Izzo and any of his fan base to entertain, even whimsically, the notion that a Big Ten basketball coach could sashay over to the Duffy Daugherty Football Building and introduce a competent culture is to suggest the psychedelic '60s are back in vogue in East Lansing.

MSU has been looking for a football messiah for so long that the Izzo-for-coach sentiment is, pathetically, understandable. Spartans fans tend to act like a modern-day version of Diogenes, holding their lanterns as they search for a single capable football coach, never realizing that lots of good football coaches with all kinds of ability to harness MSU's attributes always have been there for the hiring.

Thus, the Izzo-for-football-coach thought can take root within a fan community that knows Izzo as the one person who has represented MSU's enduring sports potential.

MSU's executives -- I think -- are clear-headed enough to have dismissed such a transfer as being the craziest idea since George Perles wanted to be both football coach and athletic director (oops, that actually happened).

Izzo, likewise, might have thought a few seconds more about his Monday words and come to regret dreaming out loud.

Then, again, I'm not sure.

Asked what kind of defense he would deploy as Spartans head coach, he responded: "3-4. I like the linebackers. I want to kill somebody."

I know just how he feels.

Me too.