The players let down their coach: “It’s a damn shame”

PHOTO: Michigan State coach Mel Tucker. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report *** By TOM SHANAHAN Two highly anticipated player discipline decisions recently confronted Alabama’s Nick Saban and Michigan State’s Mel Tucker. The cases were similar, but the path chosen forward by the two coaches very different. Saban didn’t suspend Alabama’s Jermaine Burton for hitting a Tennessee female fan. She was among partisans storming the field, celebrating a colossal victory. Asked to clarify his decision, he tersely added little.…

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