Indiana defensive coordinator offended by Ty Simpson’s 'compliment'

As Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson preps for the NFL Draft, he was on a podcast this week with Ohio State’s Caleb Downs, who was Simpson’s teammate at Alabama as a freshman.

The discussion turned to national champs Indiana, which defeated both Alabama and Ohio State on its way to an undefeated season.

Simpson talked about how surprising the Hoosiers were. How disciplined and well-coached they were, even though he knew what was coming.

“From my point of view, they don’t do much. I was like they do the same thing every down, and so when I got the ball, I knew exactly what was going to happen. They just didn’t mess up, bro,” Simpson said.

“They were in the exact same place they were supposed to be; they were so well coached,” he added.

Although many thought Simpson’s comments were meant as a compliment, IU defensive coordinator Bryant Haines didn’t take Simpson’s words as a compliment; he took it as a slight to his team.

“Adorable. We also saw everything they were doing on every single snap… It’s just that we exploited those cues. And didn’t get frozen and crushed by them.”

When Alabama fans called him out, Haines didn’t back down from his earlier comments.“That’s all it took to break your entire fanbase? Wow.. maybe I should’ve just said “Boo”. No apologies, no compliments. Grow up, folks. He had a bad take, and I said the painful truth. Bounce back better. “ #GoIU #NoCompliments

It sounds like Haines misunderstood where Simpson was coming from and took what he said the wrong way, making this a bigger issue than maybe it should be.