Things You Can't Unsee: Tom Izzo in Full KISS Makeup

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Okay, so it appears this year, College Basketball coaches around America are trying to one up each other.

Quite honestly, we didn't think anything could top Tubby Smith, dressed as Shaft, driving into the Texas Tech gym on a motorcycle and then wiping out could be topped.

But we may have been wrong.

Check out Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo.

Not only did he have KISS in the house to rock and roll all night, he actually dressed up with them and performed, albeit with an accordion...

Tom Izzo's best Midnight Madness performance yet? Watch the @MSU_Basketball coach make a KISS-inspired entrance! http://t.co/SxXAfw0DO4
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) October 25, 2014

Tubby Smith on a Motorcycle: Bad Idea

The Texas Tech basketball Sports Information folks are lucky he didn't get hurt.

And because Head Coach Tubby Smith didn't get hurt, we can laugh at how stupid funny this is.

Check out what happened during the Red Raiders Midnight Madness basketball event on Friday. We are assuming they thought it would be cool to have Tubby do a "Shaft" speech, complete with music, on the video board to introduce the evenings festivities.

The appear to have thought it would be even cooler if Shaft/Smith rode into the gym on a motorcycle.

Which was great until he tried to stop.

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Tom Izzo In a Cannon? Or Is He?

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Okay, this was pretty good. And the deception may have worked had Michigan State coach Tom Izzo not given it away at the end.

Check out the kickoff to Michigan State's "Midnight Madness", 1st "official" basketball practice of the upcoming season.

The video shows the legendary MSU coach beginning his day of preparations before building up to the beginning of Friday night/Saturday mornings event.

That's when Izzo appears to crawl into a cannon before being shot and launched into a net set up on the court. The "person" dressed as Izzo then does a neat front flip off the net before being surrounded by the cheerleaders....then Izzo emerges.

He thanks everyone for coming and then introduces the raucous crowd and proceeds to give away the gag. It happens at about the 4 minute mark.

Bravo for the creativity, though we wish they stayed with the joke at least until the next day.