There’s a stark difference between how current Michigan State football players are talking about Jonathan Smith and how former players are treating him.
As you can imagine, current players are coming to his defense. After the inexplicable loss to Iowa on Saturday, Michigan State’s eighth straight, guys like Jordan Hall and Alessio Milivojevic came to their coach’s defense. Hall went as far as saying that he was “appalled” that Smith was getting the hate that he got, and he had his coach’s back.
Former players, however, are not holding back.
Guys like Lawrence Thomas, Trae Waynes, Chris Frey, Matt Seybert, and Demetrius Cox have ripped into the second-year head coach, calling what he’s done to the program ‘unacceptable’.