For a brief moment Monday evening, Antjuan Simmons lost his concentration.
His train of thought fizzled, causing him to pause before asking a reporter to repeat his question.
“It’s been a long day,” Simmons said with a smile.
The senior linebacker from Ann Arbor had just finished a practice that was so charged it blindsided him like a blitzing defender he strives to emulate.
Exactly 222 days into the Mel Tucker era of Michigan State football, Simmons’ first true introduction to the new coaching regime resembled a baptism by fire.
There was non-stop running, an accelerated tempo in every drill and no rest for the weary.