Pinkel OK with handling of Fanning tackle
By Chris Low
Published October 17, 2012, 01:00:47 PM
Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said Wednesday there were no hard feelings over the dangerous pile-driver tackle that Alabama’s LaMichael Fanning planted on tailback Russell Hansbrough last Saturday.
Pinkel said he and Alabama coach Nick Saban have talked and that it was a case of a player simply making a mistake. Saban had Fanning write a letter of apology to Pinkel and Hansbrough.
“Nick called me, and we’re obviously friends,” said Pinkel, who played with Saban at Kent State.
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