Post Michigan State press conference: “Someone asked me the other day about my wife and how she takes all the criticism of me. I don’t know. We never talk about it. She’s in the middle of reading Dante’s Club. And we’re talking about the fact that Dante was gay. And she wanted to know if I knew he was gay. I said, ‘Yeah I knew he was gay.’ She said, ‘Did you know Beatrice in his poem was not a woman, but a man.’ I said, ‘Yeah I knew that. I read Dante when I was 14-years-old.’ Now I didn’t read it in Italian, but I read it. That’s what we talk about.”
I’ve read two separate translations of the Inferno and I didn’t know that Dante was gay and I certainly did not know that Beatrice was a man. It will be a long time before big-time football sees a coach like this again. – Ed.