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Michigan State Football: Can we finally put pre-game Michigan drama to rest?

By Connor Muldowney

EAST LANSING, MI - OCTOBER 20: Head coach Mark Dantonio of the Michigan State Spartans talks with officials about the current weather delay while playing the Michigan Wolverines at Spartan Stadium on October 20, 2018 in East Lansing, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
EAST LANSING, MI - OCTOBER 20: Head coach Mark Dantonio of the Michigan State Spartans talks with officials about the current weather delay while playing the Michigan Wolverines at Spartan Stadium on October 20, 2018 in East Lansing, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) /
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Michigan and Michigan State football got into a pre-game scuffle over the weekend, but it’s time to move on from all the drama.

It happened, it’s done. Michigan State and Michigan don’t like each other, and that much was obvious on Saturday afternoon as the Spartans’ tradition of a pre-game 100-yard walk from end zone to end zone, locking arms, was disrupted by confrontation.

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Were both sides at fault? Absolutely.

What followed this confrontation was Devin Bush’s cleating of the Spartan logo at midfield as well as Mark Dantonio walking behind his team while not trying to break up the scuffle.

Sure, there would have been nothing Dantonio could do, other than bark at his players to get back in the straight line and don’t start anything.

Before the scuffle, rumors are swirling that Ken Mannie asked the players if they could move to the sideline so the Spartans could do their walk. Some Michigan players did, but Khaleke Hudson and Bush did not. It’s their right to stand pat, but it also seemed like they didn’t move because they wanted to create a little extra drama.

Either way, it’s a rivalry and things like these happen.

No side is without fault here. The Spartans could have unlocked, avoided confrontation and Dantonio could have gotten his guys to leave the situation be. The Wolverines could have moved to the sideline or they could have tried not to deface the Spartan logo.

Jim Harbaugh blasted Dantonio for calling his “bush league” comments “B.S.” on Saturday after the game. In his Monday press conference, he read an old Dantonio quote that said it’s not a product of the team, it’s the program.

That there is a low blow, and this is all over a situation that should be dead and buried by now.

Everyone just needs to move on and own up to the situation. Dantonio could have done more, Michigan players could have moved for 30 seconds and Harbaugh could have done something other than praising his players for “keeping their cool” when they did the exact opposite.

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It’s time for the adults to act as such and move on from this juvenile drama. It’s a rivalry, get over it.

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