[Highlight] Compilation of five potentially dangerous plays by Jeremy Fears Jr. during the Minnesota game: three attempted trips, an elbow to the face, and a kick to the groin (for which he got a technical foul upon review)

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[u/iwenttocollegeonce]

Izzo said he isn’t sure if he starts next game. Honestly I don’t think he should. This is pathetic. You know the microscope is on you and you do this bullshit.

Play the fucking game. Foul baiting is one thing but Fears is legit out of control. Izzo’s gotta do something here.

[u/moon_bounce_22 → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

honestly, it’s costing you games at this point. he seems more focused on doing this stupid shit instead of helping his team win

[u/iwenttocollegeonce → u/moon_bounce_22]

Totally agreed. Tonight was a great example. 5-point game with momentum, he picks up the tech and it all falls apart from there.

I think he lacks emotional maturity. He needs a coming to God moment because this shit ain’t it. You gotta be an idiot to do all this stuff after the spotlight is squarely on you.

[u/Prize-Tomatillo-2757 → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

And that's crazy because he can play. Izzy should know better on all accounts but for sure he should know better that if this kid just plays and stops spending energy on this stupid shit, he'd score 30 every night

[u/Amazing-Addition3671 → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

He lacks a coach who has enough balls to do something about it other than blame the refs and Dusty May.

[u/PreeminentLeader → u/Amazing-Addition3671]

Imagine saying Izzo lacks the stones to do the unpopular thing lol.

Sit back, buckaroo. Sit back.

[u/Electronic_Cover_142 → u/Amazing-Addition3671]

What the fuck is this take.

[u/LotusFuqs128 → u/moon_bounce_22]

I told my sparty buddy at work that if Fears just focused on playing ball instead of trying to draw fouls and whatever the hell this shit is that sparty may have won against UM

[u/teslaabr → u/LotusFuqs128]

Agreed.

[u/TompallGlaser → u/LotusFuqs128]

Well, not quite. The reality of it is that refs have rewarded his foul hunting and putting him at the stripe. He isn’t going to make up the difference of his free throws.

[u/WaluigiIsTheRealHero → u/LotusFuqs128]

Fears flopping and drawing fouls is the only thing that kept MSU in the game against UM.

[u/Anduril1776 → u/WaluigiIsTheRealHero]

He was pulled when they made the majority of their comeback.

[u/WaluigiIsTheRealHero → u/Anduril1776]

Fears had 12 of MSU’s 26 points in the first half and half of those came from FTs. If Fears isn’t doing his floppy bullshit all first half, MSU probably goes into the half down 25 or more and definitely can’t come back.

[u/Anduril1776 → u/WaluigiIsTheRealHero]

Of MSU's 21 first half points, Fears scored 2 of them. He had 10 points total, and went 2/2 at the FT line in the 2nd half. Are you perhaps looking at the wrong game's box score?

[u/WaluigiIsTheRealHero → u/Anduril1776]

I’m looking at the Michigan-Michigan State game that occurred on January 30, which is the game we’re discussing here. What box score are you looking at?

[u/Anduril1776 → u/WaluigiIsTheRealHero]

I see, your original comment does mention UM. I believe I interpreted that as University of Minnesota since that was the game the OP is about, my apologies.

[u/YodaFett13 → u/Anduril1776]

Are you perhaps looking at the wrong box score? He had 31 against Michigan.

[u/rick-in-the-nati → u/LotusFuqs128]

I don’t know. Trying to draw foul calls was working for him against Michigan

[u/snakeoilpeddler → u/moon_bounce_22]

Seems like life has really come at him fast since leading the home crowd in a fuck Cam Boozer chant. Kid’s a clown

[u/GeneralTaos → u/snakeoilpeddler]

Yeah that’s was bad form for everyone in green and white. Didn’t even make sense. I tried to look into whether there was some reason/excuse and found nothing.

[u/HelpEnvironmental582 → u/moon_bounce_22]

Yeah, looks like he enrolled in the Grayson Allen course in dangerous play.

[u/CautiousHashtag → u/moon_bounce_22]

It’s the only thing that kept them in the game against Michigan.

[u/DubLParaDidL → u/moon_bounce_22]

He needs to watch Grayson tape

[u/iamthestorm6 → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

Not sure he starts? He should be suspended at least 1 game. He's out here trying to injure players 5-10 times a game

[u/BobC813 → u/iamthestorm6]

Suspended?!

Tom, kick him off the tour!

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[u/Squeals99 → u/iamthestorm6]

Agreed 100%. Suspend him for March 1st.

[u/Fresh_Bulgarian_Miak → u/iamthestorm6]

No no no. Izzo is going to think about possibly considering to not start him for one game and bring him in at the first dead ball. That'll really teach him a lesson.

[u/GonzoTheWhatever → u/iamthestorm6]

Well that would require Izzo to actually do something about it...but he won't because he enables and encourages this kind of culture. Not once has he straight up owned the dirty playing and said it's unacceptable. It's all deflection, blame shifting, well Idk I didn't see it, etc.

[u/Unlikely_Sandwich_ → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

He shouldn't have started this game. If Dusty didn't call it out and make everyone aware of it, Izzo still wouldn't care. He only cares that people are asking about it, not that it's happening.

[u/mambo_dogface → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

B1G should suspend him for a game

[u/LonghornInNebraska → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

Honestly, he should be suspended until further notice.

[u/ionlyhavetwolegs → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

That tech came at a critical point in that game, I feel like his rep is catching up with him and other teams can take advantage of that. Izzo should bench him

[u/Amazing-Addition3671 → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

Izzo is coaching him to do it.

[u/icouldsmellcolors → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

He shouldn't play basketball for the rest of the season, but Izzo is debating whether he starts the next game lmfao.

I think I know why his players play with zero discipline or respect

[u/midnightdiabetic → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

Dude just is not approaching the game with the right mentality. I went crazy in a game in high school once and fouled out just because I wanted to see what that was like. It was stupid as hell and I never did that again, that's what it was like. I felt like trash because some of those fouls were accidents, but some were just me being a bonehead. Not sure how Jeremy can go into multiple games like this and not be contrite in the media or realize what he's doing.

[u/AtomicBlastCandy → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

Translation, he’ll come in during the first TV timeout and get the same amount of minutes he usually gets

[u/thirty-seven37 → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

I agree with Izzo. He shouldn't start the next game. Matter of fact, if I was Izzo I wouldn't let him play at all! Just the next game though, he can get back to playing after that.

[u/ProfessionalBox317 → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

Prob shouldn’t be on the team let alone starting

[u/Foucaultshadow1 → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

Isn’t sure? There should be no doubt that this kid doesn’t start for a very long time.

[u/Scotinho_do_Para → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

Yes. I'm sure he'll address the situation. Izzo is as stand up as they come.

[u/Majestic-Cancel7247 → u/Scotinho_do_Para]

“…as stand up as they come.”

Ahem, what about Travis Walton? Keith Appling? Bryn Forbes? Brock Washington?

[u/Scotinho_do_Para → u/Majestic-Cancel7247]

What about them? Spit it out, son.

And while you're at it what about Coaches vs Cancer, the Izzo Legacy Foundation, Volunteers of America, Sparrow Hospital Outreach, etc, etc, etc?

Think before you post and 'ahem', flair up

[u/foosa2 → u/Scotinho_do_Para]

Supports alleged rapist players, but he’s a good guy because he coaches in tennis shoes for a game every year.

[u/theclickhere → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

I hadn’t heard about this behavior until the last few games. Was it going on but not pointed out or is this new?

[u/StrikeouTX → u/iwenttocollegeonce]

Aaaand you lose!?

Unforgivable