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If what looks to have happened is what actually happened in the on-field melee at the end of the Michigan State-Michigan football game Saturday night, then Michigan running back Kalel Mullings has to be suspended for multiple games.
If, somehow, the video from the broadcast that appears to show Mullings stomping on someone on the ground isn’t what occurred — if he was, let’s say, just getting the little rubber pellets from the turf out of his cleats and there was never anyone under him — then that needs to be explained in detail, too.
This one doesn’t just fade away. There’s too much history, some of it very recent. Too many feelings just beneath the surface. Too much precedent.
MSU athletic director Alan Haller said Monday that he reached out to Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti shortly after leaving the field Saturday night in Ann Arbor and talked to Petitti again “several times” Sunday.
“I’m going to hand this to the conference office and give them an opportunity,” Haller said Monday. “Because there are a lot of new people that weren’t here two years ago.”
Two years ago, you might recall, eight MSU players were suspended — by MSU — for their roles as the aggressors in postgame fights with Wolverines in the tunnel at this same stadium. Seven of them were later charged criminally after former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh planted that seed and Washtenaw County prosecutor Eli Savit followed through.
Haller said Tuesday he has no intention of calling for tar and feathers.
“I don’t think that situation (in 2022) should have been a criminal incident, and I don’t think this should be, as well,” he said. “This is a sportsmanship policy situation, and the conference will look at it.
“I want to make sure that school is held to the same standard as everybody else.”
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Author : Detroit Free Press
Publish date : 2024-10-28 23:17:15
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