EAST LANSING, Mich. – Riley Bullough, Tyler O’Connor and Demetrious Cox couldn’t have plotted three more divergent vectors to the same destination: the captaincy of the Michigan State football team.
The fifth-year senior trio was selected to lead the 2016 Spartans by a player vote that was announced Thursday.
Bullough ascended to the post almost as if by birthright; O’Connor never stopped dreaming he’d be co-captain despite times when it looked like it might never happen; Cox wouldn’t have even been around for consideration if Coach Mark Dantonio hadn’t suppressed the urge to play him as a true freshman in 2012.