EAST LANSING, Mich. — The numbers can be daunting. At times, inside Michigan State’s Duffy Daugherty Football Building, they were even taunting.
“We used to have signs up in the building showing how many passing yards we gave up,” said Xavier Henderson, the Spartans’ fifth-year senior safety. “But that’s just Coach Tuck trying to motivate us.”
And the way Mel Tucker sees it, there’s no sense in hiding from what was ultimately his team’s Achilles heel last season: A pass defense that got picked apart like none other.
