EAST LANSING – It didn’t take long. Barely minutes after Alabama pitched the last shovel of dirt upon Michigan State’s grave in the College Football Playoff national semifinal, Tyler O’Connor took it upon himself to transition the program from a disappointing end to the 2015 season to a promising future in 2016.
“Quite honestly,” O’Connor said Monday during MSU media day, “in the locker room after that loss, I started texting the seniors that were coming back and telling them that it’s now on us to get started working on getting ready for the next season. We had to pick ourselves back up as quickly as possible.