MSU Spartan Football Coach Mark Dantonio held his weekly news conference today and he fired back at Rob Parker, the Oakland County Press and WDIV-TV out of Detroit.
As the Lansing Sports Rage first reported on Sunday Night, Rob Parker appearing on WDIV flippantly threw out the name of MSU Freshman QB Kirk Cousins as possibily be involved in an incident on MSU's campus the previous weekend which resulted in an MSU hockey player being hospitalized.
Parker provided no support for the accusation, naming no source and giving no reason why he thought Cousins might have been involved.
Mark Dantonio was visibly upset today because of that report suggesting that backup quarterback Kirk Cousins was a part of last weekend’s fight involving MSU athletes.
Detroit News columnist Rob Parker, speaking about the fight Sunday night on WDIV-Channel 4 in Detroit, said “the one name that is being thrown out there big time is backup quarterback Kirk Cousins” based on anonymous sources.
Dantonio refuted that suggestion today.
“I take offense to that, his family takes offense to that. … He was with his family all night, and I think that borders on slander,” said Dantonio, who mentioned Parker’s name several times.
“Here’s a young man who’s done everything right,” Dantonio said of Cousins, a redshirt freshman, “and he’s thrown under the bus by someone who has no credibility in my mind.”
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