EAST LANSING – It was an innocent question, though naive to the scars of Michigan State’s recent football past.
“In your time, has it ever been like this, trying to replace senior (wide receivers)?” a young television reporter asked MSU receivers coach Terrence Samuel on Tuesday night.
“Oh, yeah,” Samuel began, harkening back to the painful 2012 transition from B.J. Cunningham and Keshawn Martin to Bennie Fowler and Tony Lippett, and then Aaron Burbridge and Macgarrett Kings Jr., and so on and so forth.
“This feels different,” he said.
Different for a number for reasons.