{"id":18098,"date":"2024-05-17T17:37:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T21:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=18098"},"modified":"2024-05-17T17:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T21:37:44","slug":"michigan-state-football-news-player-jaden-mangham-soft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=18098","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State football player calls Jaden Mangham &#8220;soft&#8221; after committing to Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Following his commitment to Michigan, Jaden Mangham&#8217;s former Michigan State football teammate Ken Talley called him &#8220;soft&#8221;.<\/h2>\n<p>Ken Talley is not afraid to speak his mind. The <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-football-demetrice-martin-has-done-wonders-on-the-db-room\/\">Michigan State football<\/a> defensive lineman has been a vocal recruiter on social media for the Spartans and he also doesn&#8217;t hold back when something bothers him.<\/p>\n<p>So when Jaden Mangham committed to Michigan on Friday evening, he didn&#8217;t mince his words.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Soft anyway lol<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KEN \u201c\ud83c\udccf\u201d TALLEY (@KenTalley22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenTalley22\/status\/1791574804274753628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It seems a bit harsh, but when you take a step back and look at the situation, you see that Mangham decided to leave Michigan State where he was going to start under Jonathan Smith and a much-improved coaching staff for rival Michigan. That just doesn&#8217;t happen in this rivalry much.<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;ve seen Semaj Bridgeman take a visit to Michigan State and Ben VanSumeren transfer to the Spartans, those were not projected starters nor were they on Michigan&#8217;s two-deep. They were both fighting for a spot on the depth chart and they felt like Michigan State may offer them that. Bridgeman has not committed to the Spartans, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>We have never seen a starter from either Michigan or Michigan State transfer to their rival. It&#8217;s just an insane move.<\/p>\n<p>What makes it even worse is that Michigan wanted to throw Mangham&#8217;s former teammates in jail or have them kicked out of school following the tunnel incident. That hate in the rivalry should&#8217;ve been enough to drive him far away from Ann Arbor. But instead, he&#8217;s headed to Michigan where he\u00a0<em>might<\/em> start next season for a Big Ten title contender.<\/p>\n<p>Talley has a point here. Mangham ran from the grind of rebuilding a program to join a hated rival that just had success.<\/p>\n<p>This is the college football equivalent of Kevin Durant losing to the Golden State Warriors and then immediately joining them so he could compete for a title instead of grinding it out in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t expect Michigan State football players to be lovey-dovey with Mangham next year when the two teams meet up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, he has a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59,498,386,191,189,504],"class_list":["post-18098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-featured","tag-jaden-mangham","tag-ken-talley","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}