{"id":7052,"date":"2023-09-16T21:07:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T01:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2023-09-16T21:07:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T01:07:05","slug":"michigan-state-football-its-important-to-stick-by-this-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=7052","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State football: It’s important to stick by this team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan State football didn’t quite play the game any of us expected, but we have to remember not to give up on these kids.<\/h2>\n

This game obviously didn\u2019t go the way any of us Michigan State football<\/a> fans wanted. But it\u2019s important to remember they\u2019re just kids at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

Kids who had major distractions thrown at them when former head coach Mel Tucker became the subject of a sexual harassment investigation. It\u2019s hard to imagine this game going too much different had the distractions never come to fruition. And we\u2019ll never truly know the impact they had on the team as a whole. But what we do know is that Tucker’s mistakes were not fair to this team at all and did take away from what was most important.<\/p>\n

While the result may have been similar had Tucker never created this mess, it didn’t help that he was a reason there was a whirlwind of emotions flowing through the football building all week.<\/p>\n

And it was clear that it affected these guys on Saturday, at least a little bit.<\/p>\n

Still, this team went out there and played hard for 60 minutes, despite all the distractions. So no matter how upset or mad we get at the results. We need to stand behind these Spartans now more than ever<\/p>\n

Go Green forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tough loss, but not the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59,191,189,504],"class_list":["post-7052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}