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Ex-Spartan memorably rants about Tom Izzo, weed and the NCAA

Ex-Spartan memorably rants about Tom Izzo, weed and the NCAA

The hatred Michigan State coach Tom Izzo already has for Twitter undoubtedly intensified Wednesday as a result of an alcohol-fueled rant by one of his former players.

Garrick Sherman, an ex-Spartans big man who later finished his career at Notre Dame, unleashed a memorable series of tweets about his two years in East Lansing. Among the subjects the 6-foot-10 center touched on included his poor relationship with Izzo, rampant marijuana use among his Michigan State teammates and the time he urinated in a condom to help an ex-Spartans wing pass a drug test.

(And, warning, some of Sherman's language was NSFW)

The timing of Sherman's tweet coincided with the end of his professional team's season in the country of Georgia. It was well past 2 a.m. in Georgia when Sherman began tweeting and he acknowledged that he had been drinking for quite a while.

Why would Sherman reveal things that paint the Michigan State program in a bad light? He insists it was to spotlight the ineffectiveness of the NCAA rather than to embarrass Izzo or the Spartans.

Such an epic rant wouldn't be complete without a couple more cheap shots, and Sherman definitely did not disappoint.

First target: Kentucky

Next up: Doug Gottlieb, whom Sherman had feuded with previously over a crack the CBS analyst made about his beard.

Sherman was a role player at Michigan State who blossomed into a quality starter his final season at Notre Dame. He averaged 13.5 points and a team-best 7.3 rebounds for an Irish team that collapsed in the second half of the season after losing star Jerian Grant.

So Sherman had a few nice moments as a college player. None are quite as memorable, however, as Wednesday's Twitter rant.

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Jeff Eisenberg is the editor of The Dagger on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at daggerblog@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!