The words are bad. They read bad. They come across bad.
It’s not a good look when a player, like Iowa State cornerback Nigel Tribune, comes out and said the team didn’t think it would win games a season ago.
But the impact from them doesn’t resonate. The fallout isn’t there. Read them again.
“A lot of the time last year we went into the games knowing we were going to lose,” Tribune said Thursday night. “That is the culture we had last year.”
Shocking? No. Expected? Sort of.
A major problem? I don’t think so.