Mel Tucker sandbagged us a year ago. He knew he had a running back on his team that could shock the college football world and he kept it to himself. And told his players to keep it to themselves.
So, if someone takes it to the house Friday night on the game’s opening play, as Kenneth Walker III did a year ago at Northwestern in the season opener, don’t say you weren’t warned. Tucker is coy.
Here was his answer earlier this week when asked who his starting running back would be:
“We’ll just have to see.