The local media is going to have a hard time dodging the “blue wall” accusations once again. After Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore was fired on Wednesday and subsequently was arrested for some wild alleged crimes, Michigan State took some strays in a local column by Mitch Albom.
You would think the local media would take a break from constantly bashing Michigan State for its past transgressions under a previous administration, but that’s apparently not the case.
Following one of the most insane stories of the year and the second Michigan scandal in the past three years, Albom wrote a Detroit Free Press column about the firing not being a shock.
In the column, Albom basically said that the only surprise about the firing of Moore is that anyone is still surprised by anything. Seeing Moore go from hero a couple of years ago to fired in disgrace on Wednesday was probably tough on a lot of Michigan fans, and those same fans on social media who took jabs at Michigan State for the Mel Tucker situation are now playing the victim card.
It was the same with certain (not all) Michigan fans using the Larry Nassar scandal as rivalry fodder, but the same ones were completely silent when the Dr. Anderson scandal went public.
Wolverine fans rarely take the high road, but Albom had the gall to call out Michigan State fans in an article about the biggest Michigan scandal since, well, the last one.
Michigan State hit with a weird Mitch Albom stray
Albom is known as one of the best journalists out there and he’s been celebrated for years. However, no one’s perfect and he got caught up in an emotional statement, saying that Michigan State fans have no room to talk because Nassar and Tucker, essentially.
"No doubt some Michigan State fans are enjoying this ignoble end to Moore’s tenure. They will point out that Michigan haughtily paints itself as a university above such behavior.Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press
Nonsense. There are no universities above any behavior.
Are MSU fans so quickly forgetting the brutal Larry Nassar saga? Or how Tucker was fired for harassing anti-sexual violence advocate Brenda Tracy?"
While I do agree that these situations shouldn’t be used as rivalry fodder, it’s always going to happen on social media no matter what. Singling out a rival fanbase in an article about a major scandal is just weird and unnecessary, and that’s why the local media constantly gets referred to as “the blue wall”.
No one should be laughing at what Moore did, but let’s not act like Michigan fans haven’t been doing the same with Tucker for the past two years.
That snippet from Albom’s article comes off as tone deaf and just completely unnecessary.
When other schools have scandals, I guess Michigan State is going to always take a stray.