Quote:He suspended his star RB for 3 games, for his purported involvement in an off the field incident earlier this season, hardly what I would consider to be "taking punishment lightly" Things get heated in that game, it's one of (if not the) biggest rivalry(ies) in college sports. What more do you people want? You're all like Will Ferrell in Blades of Glory. You're never satisfied.

 

Exactly. Jesse Palmer said during halftime the Wolverines were playing better than they had all season because of the rivalry aspect of the game. The rivalry factor is the most likely reason that game had a major brawl and the previous 11 for each team did not. You will not see that kind of crap at the BTCG because MSU and OSU are not natural enemies. The only rivalry bigger than this one, if any, is Army/Navy. I heard years ago officials hate working at rivalry games. But I am not going to make excuses. Players have to control their tempers. A former supervisor told me to "roll with the punches" many times. Hopefully the ejected players learned that lesson.

 

Brad Nessler mentioned Carlos Hyde's three-game suspension, but did not go into detail about why Urban Meyer kept him out that long or what Hyde's mistake was.

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