EAST LANSING — Mel Tucker doesn’t talk about injuries. He doesn’t have any updates on his eight suspended Michigan State football players, either.
But the third-year coach did make a rare, stark admission about what is happening behind closed doors with the Spartans and how both of those problems are affecting his defense.
“We don't hit,” Tucker said during his weekly news conference Monday. “The only day we have contact, that we hit with pads on, is game day. It's been like that for the last three weeks, because we don't have enough guys to practice and we don't have enough healthy bodies.