(Photo: Daniel Mears, Detroit News)
You could see, during those weary weeks in autumn, 1972, that a coaching deity in East Lansing was out of energy and out of time. And maybe it’s not coincidental to events in 2019 that Duffy Daugherty’s Michigan State football team was a root canal on offense in that fall of ‘72, even with 10 players on both sides of the ball who were about to be grabbed in the NFL draft.
The team’s record: a dank 5-5-1.
It was time to go.
Darryl Rogers’ closeout in 1979; Muddy Waters’ removal from football life-support in 1982; George Perles’ final days in 1994; Bobby Williams’ painful exit in 2002; John L.