Lucy Rohden
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I feel like he's going to leave.
Yeah, it's weird, especially because, like, as an Iowa fan, when this came out, Iowa, like, the university came out and they were like, we are not marking any of those games against Michigan State that we lost as wins.
Like, we're not doing that.
So, like, I don't โ I've never understood, like, forfeiting the victories because, like, what does that really mean?
Mel Tucker is sort of like โ he's kind of a โ speaking of Matt Rule a little bit earlier, these are very different situations because Mel Tucker ended up being kind of like a gross dude, and I don't think Matt Rule is, where, like โ
The funniest part of these college football hiring cycles is how everyone gets so scared that they are willing to commit to somebody who is bad.
Because I believe they gave Mel Tucker that giant extension after the LSU job opened up because they were terrified he was going to leave.
When in all actuality, all that money should have gone to Kenneth Walker III.
That was what made Michigan State so good that season.
And so it was just a bad judgment move on Michigan State to extend this guy that they only really had seen one year of, which just ended up being an anomaly overnight.
Obviously, everything went downhill from there where he was a really creepy dude to someone whose entire job is to teach you about really creepy dudes.
And then now they've hired Jonathan Smith, which this just doesn't seem like it's working out either.
That's another interesting sort of school to watch right now.
They're a really bad football team.
Do you hire or fire Jonathan Smith given the competition around you?
It's a weird spot.
Michigan State is an athletic department that just like โ
Messy stuff going on there all the time.
I only got to watch the first half, and the first half, let me tell you, you don't want to be throwing interceptions, and you don't want to let South Carolina get hot.
It was just so quick, the way South Carolina was moving, where it would be, okay, you pick off Marcel Reed, 80-yard touchdown pass.