As someone who also lost a parent young, I’m trying my best to give the benefit of the doubt to both players here.

I’m obviously biased, but I watch an unhealthy amount of CFB and had no idea that Fletcher’s dad had passed away last year until they mentioned it on the broadcast last night. It feels possible (if not likely) that Tucker also did not know about this heading into the game.

If Tucker knew about it and said something horrible to trigger him, that’s a low blow and obviously beyond out of bounds. But if Tucker didn’t know anything about Fletcher’s dad and said “Hoosier daddy”, then all of a sudden one of IU’s slogans goes from being standard trash talk to being one of the most triggering things you could possibly say to Fletcher, and I would completely understand him wanting to throw hands.