EAST LANSING, Mich. — Tom Izzo posed the question to his assembled family, during a scene from Michigan State’s Midnight Madness introduction video displayed on the big screen at Breslin Center Friday night - what would he have done if he didn’t become a basketball coach?

Steven, Izzo’s son, suggested he would have been a referee. Izzo was not pleased. Daughter Raquel went with movie star. Wife Lupe said educator or principal.

Flashback to Northern Michigan University, circa 1972. Izzo was shown with long hair talking to buddy and football player Steve Mariucci on the phone, and said he wasn’t sure about going out for basketball this year. Instead, he decided to join a rock band.

The Breslin Center went dark and when the lights came back on, KISS cover band War Machine was playing ‘Rock and Roll all Nite’ on a makeshift stage.

Izzo joined them on stage for the next number, in full makeup, and played accordion on ‘Detroit Rock City’.

Izzo then addressed the crowd and said of this team, “We’re gonna work our butts off morning, noon and night.”

He also briefly addressed Saturday’s Michigan State-Michigan game at Spartan Stadium.

“Let’s go kick Michigan’s butt!”

MSU opens its season in three weeks against Navy at the Naval Academy in Anapolis, Md.