Discussing The Rivalry Game Brawl

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00:00It's just, it's not a good look.

00:02Anthony Jones and Colston Loveland

00:04are jawing at each other.

00:06Looks like Jones kind of takes a swipe

00:09at the face mask of Loveland.

00:14Loveland follows with a headbutt.

00:17And then Jones grabs him on both sides of the helmet

00:22and kind of throws him to the side and on the ground.

00:25And then all hell breaks loose

00:27because the entire Michigan sideline

00:30came out onto the field.

00:33And Michigan State sideline did not.

00:36In fact, the Michigan State players

00:38didn't come running over

00:39to get involved with this initially.

00:42Initially, it was all maize and blue

00:47going after Michigan State,

00:49going after Anthony Jones in particular.

00:51And then the coaches come out on the field,

00:54there's staffers on the field,

00:56and they're all trying to keep people back.

00:59And for the Michigan State side,

01:00they did a great job of that,

01:01of not getting other players involved.

01:04But when you're watching it unfold,

01:07you do see Michigan players taking liberties

01:09with some people wearing green,

01:11whether it was a jersey or just a green jacket

01:15because they're a staffer.

01:17And it looks like Kal-El Mullings,

01:20Samaj Morgan, that they are a couple of players

01:25that are involved in something

01:26that looks a little bit more than just extracurricular,

01:30and that maybe at some point

01:31we could hear something from the Big 10

01:34if they wanted to hand down any kind of suspensions.

01:37Nothing was handed out during the game,

01:39which is kind of crazy when you think of it this way,

01:42but the clock is still ticking while this is going on,

01:46while there are players on the Michigan sideline

01:49coming onto the field while the clock is still ticking.

01:52I'm not gonna complain too much about this.

01:54I'm really not, because I'm over it.

01:57State lost the game.

02:00Yes, people want to make comparisons

02:02to what happened a couple of years ago

02:03with the tunnel incident,

02:05and I thought that was way over the top

02:08the way it was handled by Harbaugh,

02:12by Ward-Manuel, by the attorney general,

02:17by everybody involved with that.

02:19I thought it was way over the top,

02:22the way that it was handled,

02:25the way that this was handled afterwards,

02:26it's almost like it didn't happen,

02:28which is kind of strange.

02:29Nobody's really talking about it.

02:31Jonathan Smith didn't pound the table.

02:33Alan Halloran, the athletic director from Michigan State,

02:36he wasn't pounding a table.

02:37Nobody's on the phone with law enforcement to make,

02:40nobody's trying to,

02:41let's gather all the cell phone evidence we have,

02:44none of that's going on,

02:46and yet it's basically the same thing,

02:49except one happened in a tunnel

02:52and one happens on the field,

02:54and when it happened in the tunnel a couple of years ago,

02:55I said on the air that had this happened

03:00100 feet west of the tunnel and on the field,

03:04that nothing would've happened.

03:06It would've just been, oh, yep,

03:07heat of the moment, guys are upset,

03:09fights happen, it's just football,

03:11because that's kind of what it was.

03:13I know Michigan fans always go,

03:14well, we don't throw helmets at players and all this,

03:16and they were getting up and it was unprovoked.

03:18It wasn't unprovoked, and yeah,

03:20helmet swinging, that gets a little bit too much,

03:23and players were suspended for the rest of the season

03:25from the Michigan State side.

03:28Players were brought up on charges a couple years ago,

03:31which was kind of ridiculous when you look back at it.

03:34I'm not calling for anybody to be brought up on charges.

03:37Should there be an investigation by the Big Ten

03:39to see whether or not Mullings or others

03:41deserve to be suspended for a game?

03:44Sure, I think that should happen.

03:47I know Michigan won't do it proactively.

03:50That never happens.

03:52Like, I don't know, for instance,

03:54maybe when you have a player on your team

03:56that got arrested for speeding in an area,

03:57and then there's a gun in the car.

04:00I know they won't address it right away proactively.

04:04They got a big game coming up Saturday.

04:06They can't do it proactively.

04:07They can't suspend them.

04:10But that's a little bit of my green and white side

04:12coming out, and as I try to calm down,

04:15I will tell you all that I don't think

04:17what happened on Saturday night was a huge deal.

04:20The problem is the precedent was set a couple years ago

04:23when, again, it was a similar incident,

04:25and it was made like it was the biggest deal in the world.

04:28That's a problem.

04:29I will also tell you this.

04:31There continues to be a problem at Michigan Stadium

04:35of keeping the teams away from each other.

04:40Michigan's sideline had no business

04:41coming out into the field, and yet they did,

04:43and this was towards the end of the game.

04:46But at halftime, there was also an issue

04:49as Michigan players were trying to get up the tunnel

04:52while Michigan State had not gotten to the tunnel yet

04:54or hadn't finished going through the tunnel yet,

04:56and there's nobody there to stop them.

04:59The officials on the, the referees,

05:01the guys wearing the black and white,

05:03they were the ones that had to stop that from happening

05:05because there could have been something

05:07that happened at halftime.

05:08Fortunately, there wasn't, but I thought over the years

05:11that we've learned things, specifically at that stadium,

05:15that you need to keep the players away from each other,

05:18particularly at halftime and post-game.

05:21But that was a problem there.

05:23So what does this mean in the long run?

05:26Probably not a whole lot.

05:27Maybe a Michigan player or two, maybe they get suspended.

05:31We'll see.

05:32If not, I'm not gonna cry about it.

05:34It is what it is.

05:35It's football.

05:37I don't think it's that big of a deal.

05:39But could it be deserving of a suspension?

05:41Yeah, if they look into it.

05:43Will the Big Ten even look into it?

05:44I don't know.

05:46Will the NCAA do anything about it?

05:48Probably not.

05:49And instead, you're gonna have a game on Saturday

05:52in Ann Arbor, Michigan taking on Oregon,

05:54and they might take some serious lumps in that game

05:57because Michigan has no offense.

06:00And Michigan's vaunted defense, they're good, not great.

06:04And I'm not even sure how good they are.

06:06They're definitely good, but it's not like they're,

06:09oh, they're just this close.

06:10No, they're not anywhere near

06:11what you thought they were gonna be.

06:13They're a pretty decent defense,

06:15but it's nowhere near what they were last year.

06:18Now, it sounds like to me that you don't think

06:20this should be made a bigger deal than it is.

06:22Correct.

06:23After the game, stuff to kneel down.

06:25But something did happen.

06:27And with that being said, and we know the history,

06:29the tunnel, and everything like that,

06:31I'm asking you, do you think the rivalry

06:34has gotten too toxic at all?

06:37No.

06:37Okay, that stuff was just football in your mind.

06:40It wasn't like anything.

06:41It is a rivalry.

06:42These teams hate each other.

06:43The fan base hates each other?

06:44The fan base hates each other.

06:45It's just, it's a rivalry, right?

06:47And the fan base hates each other

06:48during the course of the game.

06:50And nobody, but before the game,

06:52we're friends with the other side, right?

06:55Michigan fans have Michigan State fans as friends,

06:59and vice versa.

07:00I wasn't there.

07:02Normally, I go to this game, but I didn't go

07:03because it was a night game,

07:04and I just didn't wanna deal with it.

07:06If it were a 3.30 kick, I would've been there.

07:07If it were a noon kick, I would've been there,

07:09and I would've been reveling with my Michigan friends.

07:11We've been having beers together before the game,

07:14sharing a brat, whatever the case,

07:15we would've had a great time.

07:17And after the game, we would've gotten back to the cars,

07:20and I had a post-game beverage or whatever,

07:23or it means a Coke Zero.

07:26We would've been fine.

07:28But during the game, it's different.

07:31The switch goes on, and everybody's in combat mode.

07:34It is what it is.

07:35It's a rivalry.

07:37And there's no hiding from it.

07:40The Michigan players admit afterwards,

07:44hey, they're a big rival of ours,

07:45and things get heated, and that's just what happens.

07:48Colston Loveland had the little brother comments

07:51on the field after the game,

07:52and then he walked it back a little bit later on

07:54and said, hey, I may have gone a little too far with that,

07:57and then started giving some accolades to Michigan State,

07:59and said, look, it's just a rivalry.

08:01It is, it's just the rivalry.

08:02Stupid things are said, stupid things are done.

08:05It happens Auburn, Alabama.

08:07It happens Michigan, Ohio State.

08:08It happens Michigan, Michigan State.

08:10It happens everywhere when it gets to rivalry games.

08:13I don't think it's toxic.

08:14Okay, yeah, I mean, I just wanna throw it out there.

08:16I'm not saying it is or isn't.

08:17I just wanna get your thoughts on that,

08:19because things have happened the last few years more.

08:21I don't know if it seems more than other times,

08:23but maybe it's just recency bias,

08:24that it's happening right now, so I'm not reacting.

08:27But you and Doug know how I feel about college football

08:31and college football fans.

08:32Y'all are crazy.

08:33Y'all are crazy.

08:34Y'all are crazy.

08:34And that's part of what makes college football unique

08:37from the pros, you know?

08:37I think it's different between,

08:39yeah, that's the difference between college and pros

08:41is that you have this connection to your school,

08:44and it's not like Lions fans

08:46don't have a connection to the Lions.

08:48But it's totally, yeah, you don't.

08:50And there's nothing wrong with that,

08:51and that's why I want the two,

08:53I can be able to distinguish

08:54between college football and pro football.

08:56Just because I'm a pro football guy

08:57more than college football

08:58doesn't mean I don't like college football,

09:00but I like the differences.

09:01And nowadays, you know, with NIL

09:03and everything going on with money and the contracts,

09:06the lines are being blurred more,

09:07and it's becoming professional sports,

09:08and I don't wanna lose what college football is.

09:11And honestly, what part of college football is

09:12is these great rivalries.

09:13Yeah.

09:14Gotta keep them in check, though.

09:15And it is a great rival.

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