Michigan State 2018 Season Thread

[FearlessF]

just beat Harbaugh, Again!

[ELA]

Seems to me MSU will be a great team if it can stay healthy.

I agree.  Obviously every team is worse with injuries, but MSUs depth due to attrition makes it's two deep nowhere near the other Big Ten title hopefuls.

[ELA]

Wow, sounds like Jon Reschke might be returning?  Hmm, not sure how I feel about that one.

[ELA]

Keonta Stallworth transferring.  Was a big OL recruit who moved to DT, and only played in 7 games in 3 years.  He still wasn't in the two deep this year, but at some point all of these depth hits are going to hurt.  They better avoid the injury bug again.

[Brutus Buckeye]

[ELA]

Ok?

[ELA]

Jalen Watts-Jackson confirms that he is seeking a grad transfer.  Oddly, the play that he will always be famous for, ended with him fracturing his hip, missing a year, and never really able to become a contributor again.  He'll never have to buy a drink in East Lansing for as long as he lives though.

Injury was so bad he actually wound up deciding not to seek a grad transfer, but did graduate, and is retiring from football.

[ELA]

MSU promotes Beekman from interim to permanent AD.  No prior experience in athletics.

I'm guessing they know no candidate they actually want will touch the job right now, so go with the safe internal pick of a guy who wasn't actually in the athletic department.  Try and navigate the mess of the next couple years, which really isn't a "sports" issue, as much as an administrative issue.  Then try and make your real hire in a couple years.

[847badgerfan]

This hire tells me that the MSU brass feels that neither Dantonio or Izzo are going anywhere for a few years.

[ELA]

This hire tells me that the MSU brass feels that neither Dantonio or Izzo are going anywhere for a few years.

Dantonio seems fine, I think he'll go on his own terms.  But I think he's got at least 3 years in him.  Izzo?  I wouldn't be so sure

[Anonymous Coward]

This hire tells me that the MSU brass feels that neither Dantonio or Izzo are going anywhere for a few years.

This hire tells me that MSU is still handling things in-house because it won't tolerate an outsider to have administrative say while they continue their multiyear navigation away from these scandals. 

He may well be a good guy (this one, I hadn't heard of, so I don't have much to say about him specifically), but "business-as-usual" - even symbolically - remains a worst-case strategy for healing a broken an untrusting community. Hire someone who is unbeholden fercrissakes.

Having said that, I do have to acknowledge that the "great candidate" pool must be shallow. This comment is therefore less about this specific hire than about this consistent pattern since the scandal broke, higher-ups started losing their jobs and empty administrative positions needed filling. I mean ... zero outsiders of import (perhaps zero outsiders, absolutely) have been hired throughout. That's terrible stewardship. 

And I expect the BOT will feel it in November.

[ELA]

And I expect the BOT will feel it in November.

I certainly hope so.  The method of electing these people in Michigan makes no sense, making it part of the general election.  MSU alums (until now) only barely cared, and that goes for all state institutions.  Non-alums cared even less.  So simply being a familiar name was usually enough.  I think that is going to go in the complete opposite direction this time.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's too bad that only two of eight can be replaced (and neither is running...and neither is Ferguson). Still, I do believe there'll be a shake-up of minds. Is Amanda Thomashow still considering running? She'd probably get one of my votes.
Honestly, despite the fact it would have been unprecedented, I kind of expected the Governor to step in and force a house cleaning. For however unprecedented, it'd have been fully deserved.

[ELA]

It's too bad that only two of eight can be replaced (and neither is running...and neither is Ferguson). Still, I do believe there'll be a shake-up of minds. Is Amanda Thomashow still considering running? She'd probably get one of my votes.
Honestly, despite the fact it would have been unprecedented, I kind of expected the Governor to step in and force a house cleaning. For however unprecedented, it'd have been fully deserved.

With how totally Snyder butchered the Flint water crisis, I'm guessing he doesn't want to step into anything else on his way out the door.
The AG who appointed the special prosecutor is running for governor though, so there is a tangled web there, even though he is not running the investigation himself.