Max Bullough brings lineage and lessons for Michigan State defense
Max Bullough is the third generation of his family to coach football at Michigan State, a history that is an asset to his coaching.
East Lansing — It’s 6:30 a. m. but the energy is high inside Michigan State football’s practice facility as Max Bullough barks out orders to his group of linebackers who watch him with rapt attention.
At 34 years old, the Traverse City native looks as though he could go through these drills himself. He probably wants to. Now, the former two-time MSU captain Bullough returns to East Lansing.
To the same stomping grounds where his grandfather Hank once plodded the sidelines for Duffy Daugherty. Where his father Shane once captained a team for George Perles. Where he and his brothers Riley and Byron each played for Mark Dantonio, including Max’s captaincy of the 2013 team that won a Big Ten championship and earned a ticket to the Rose Bowl.
A Rose Bowl he never got to play in. With Bullough, it felt like a matter of when, and not if, a homecoming would occur on the sidelines. And with that reunion would come the inevitable question: Why did his career end a game early, suspended from the Rose Bowl his senior season?
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