2023 Michigan State Season Thread

[MrNubbz]

Anyone hear from ELA? Been over 2 months since he posted according to his profile

going to miss his polls for all conference

the polls are nice as long timer I like his banter/insight. And we have a mutual enemy 

[Mdot21]

Tuck says 2023 is his best roster yet at Michigan State...

https://www.si.com/college/michiganstate/football/michigan-state-spartans-football-mel-tucker-2023-roster-improved-depth-talent-msu-mark-dantonio-080523

[MrNubbz]

Hope they come out in Fightin' shape

[Mdot21]

if Tuck goes 3-9 or 4-8 or 5-7 is he officially on the hot seat? I think he's got to get to 6-6/7-5 to be safe. Anything less than that and he's coaching for his life in '24 imo. 

[Mdot21]

Tuck and his OC Johnson talking about possibly having a 2 QB system this year...


https://twitter.com/chrissolari/status/1688644323934437377?s=20

[Mdot21]

Tucker bitching about Michigan State's NIL. Sounds like some excuse making.

Initial reactions: 

A) You're one of the highest paid coaches in the sport, getting paid almost $10 million a year. Figure it out. No one wants to hear excuses or complaints. 

B) You're at Michigan State, you're never in a million years going to recruit like Ohio State, UGA, BAMA even if you have NIL in place and rocking and rolling....so maybe don't try to?   

C) You have to hire excellent coaching staffs that have crack HS player evals & player development (Dantonio was a master in both these departments) and you have to hit the portal sparringly to find top-level (think Kenneth Walker) guys you can plug-in here or there- not the 50 guys he's added in 3 years. You still need to primarily build the roster out every year by recruiting and developing your own guys if you want to sustain success.


https://twitter.com/LSJNews/status/1694704621317456196?s=20

[ELA]

His coaching hires have been questionable at best

[ELA]

My thoughts this year is there are 4 games where they will be substantial underdogs (UM, OSU, PSU, Washington).  Probably 2 games where they will be slight underdogs (at Iowa, at Minnesota).  2 games where they are slight favorites (Maryland and Nebraska at home).  4 games where they should be favored (CMU, Richmond, Rutgers, Indiana).

I'll be optimistic and say they upset either PSU or Washington, and split the 4 toss upish games, and go 7-5.  Worst case is probably 5-7, losing all 4, and going 1-3 in the toss ups.

So, guessing 6-6

[CatsbyAZ]

IMO the Washington Huskies are overrated and no school is more dependent on a single player that Washington is on an injury prone Michael Penix. Spartans are at home with the revenge factor on their side. Betting on Michigan State.

[ELA]

His coaching hires have been questionable at best

To extrapolate.  He has increased the recruiting from previous years.  As I said in other threads, I don't hate that.  The way college football has evolved, you are either Georgia or you are Georgia State.  I took more shit from Michigan fans over getting blown out in the CFP than I ever did from going 3-9 under JLS.  So if it's NC or bust, you need the talent.  As well coached as 2015 was, they just simply didn't have the talent.  But man, I'm looking at Illinois was googly eyes right now

[ELA]

And granted if you are counting on true freshmen on the OL, you are in a bad place, but MSUs highest rated OL recruit in 5 years just announced he's having knee surgery.  Even if he wasn't going to play, that's a year of missed reps

[utee94]

Wait, what's the deal with Harbaugh not coaching for some games, and trading off the head coaching duties weekly?  

What the heck happened?  

I heard something on a blurb for college football in the background on ESPN or something, it's the first I've heard of it but it's also the first college football TV/radio I've listened to since last Fall.

I'm sure it's somewhere on the previous pages, but can someome summarize? 

[847badgerfan]

Take a look at the Michigan thread. There's some stuff in there.

[utee94]

Oh shoot, sorry.  I saw the word "Michigan" in the thread title and thought this was the Michigan thread.

Y'all have too many threads on this forum.