How come no talk on this kid committing to Indiana out of the blue. Izzo has been recruiting him for a while. He's a 5 star. Kansas was on him too, but he commits to "on the hot seat" Mike Woodson at Indiana? I think he's a McD AA.

What's the scoop?

If you look at losing teams in the tournament and they have a common thread of not shooting the ball well. RJ Davis goes cold, and they lose, and Arizona guards shoot 20 % from the field and they lose, sound familiar?

You have to have three or four knockdown shooters to win in college basketball.

The aberrant team was the Illinois team that missed 49 percent of 30 free throws. They shoot 75% from the line and they win walking away but ended up winning by a bucket.

MSU just does not have the shooters to consistently win.

East Lansing is a familiar place for 2026 four-star in-state offensive lineman and Michigan State legacy recruit Gregory Patrick.

“MSU is for sure in the picture right now, especially with the new staff.”

He recaps his latest visit to Michigan State:

“I’m just trying to make sure their knowledge of understanding the offense and football is good.”

Assistant head coach/co-special teams coordinator/running backs coach Keith Bhonapha gave an update following Spring practice on Tuesday.

When head coach Jonathan Smith and his staff took over the Michigan State program in November, there were many initial tasks to complete in the restoration process. One of the biggest and more difficult priorities was retaining players from the previous regime and selling them on a new opportunity.

Defensive tackle Derrick Harmon and offensive lineman Geno VanDeMark both flirted with the transfer portal following the end of the 2023 season. In late November of 2023, Harmon and VanDeMark announced their intention to enter the the transfer portal, and each player officially did so when the portal window opened on Dec. 4, 2023.

Here is why the decided to return to MSU:

Michigan State is on its second week of spring practice and I have noticed some themes when talking to players during the media interview sessions:

- Defense will be more aggressive

Expect more man coverage. Expect to see more guys from the front seven in the backfield and that just has to do with the scheme. I'm not even saying that MSU is significantly better talent wise this season compared to last season. The scheme is more conducive to producing TFLs, sacks, INTs, etc.

For example, Maverick Hansen explained this to us last week, the defensive tackles are given more freedom to split double teams and explode into the backfield as opposed to holding the point and taking on 700 pounds of force from two offensive linemen. Taking on the full force of two offensive linemen while trying to hold position results in more injuries than if DTs race off the line and put force behind trying to get by the double team. Remember when Simeon Barrow seemed to get injured each game? I don't think you'll see as many defensive linemen down after plays this fall.

- The new staff seems to emphasize stretching more

The team is doing yoga sessions. Workouts are longer because there are longer stretching sessions. Most of the players that have spoken with us think that the workouts are more focused on toning their bodies.

- The new staff seems to have an open door policy

Players seem to really like being able to meet with the coaches whenever they want to, to an extent. It's more of an open door policy than the previous staff. Jonathan Smith seems to be all in on knowing each guy as a person, not just as a football player.

- Everything the staff does has a purpose

From the workouts to position coaches working with the social media team to highlight certain players/aspects of their position group, everything the new staff has a reason behind it. The practices are formatted differently than before in terms of period length and obviously some new drills. The players have noticed. While it's an adjustment, it also represents a clean slate for them. That clean slate is something that the returning players seem to be using as motivation.

With all that being said, it's hard to know what this team will look like in the fall with all the newness. All in all, the new staff appears to be a breath of fresh air in the building. We'll see how it plays out on the field though.

The game has changed because of the transfer portal and nil. I believe that Izzo needs to adjust to the new realities of the game. The days of recruiting players that would stay up to 4 years is not the real world any longer. If you look at the teams in the Tournament, their rosters are sprinkled with transfers that are contributors . I might be wrong, but the only key transfer we have added in the last 3 years is Walker.
it is time to face reality or wallow as a middle of the pack team.

Per Greg Kampe, he is expected to go into the portal. Any interest by MSU? Would it be a good fit?

"I want to go out on a good note and have good memories leaving MSU."

Fifth-year senior LB Cal Haladay touched on his desire to finish out his college career strong on a high note, how he is adjusting to the new staff's system, and more in a media session on Tuesday:

45 years ago today MSU beat Indiana State 75-64.
That game remains the highest viewed NCAA basketball game ever

Relationships can lead to new opportunities.

That was true for Michigan State quarterback Aidan Chiles, whose relationship with his head coach while at Oregon State, Jonathan Smith, eventually led him to East Lansing.

“I wouldn’t be here right now... if it weren’t for Coach Smith and the conversations we had prior to this,” Chiles said.

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Saturday was a pretty big day for him. Also chatted about Nightingale a bit.

As their new basketball coach.

I can’t stand watching them! The way they get all the calls makes me sick. Edie makes contact and the defender gets called for the foul.
I guess the NCAA is gonna make sure they make it to a FF. They must of lost a lot $$$ last year.

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Caught up with Babalola after his trip to Michigan State. Spartans taking a swing at the elite OT.

UNSET, S.C. – Michigan State Women's Golf will look to continue it's winning momentum in to the weekend as it competes at the Clemson Invitational at The Reserve on Lake Koewee Friday through Sunday, March 22-24.

The invitational includes several top teams from the SEC, Big Ten and ACC such as Women's Golf Coaches Association No. 12 Ole Miss and the hosting Tigers, ranked 18th.

The Reserve on Lake Koewee is a Jack Nicklaus signature course that plays 7,112 yards.

The Spartans are coming off their first team win of season as they topped a field of 17 at the Briar's Creek Invitational in Johns Island, S.C. and accumulated a winning score of 860. Juniors Katie Lu and Brooke Biermann tied for first place after the three rounds and also shared Big Ten Golfer of the Week honors on Wednesday.

Preview courtesy of MSU Athletics.

Michigan State defeated in-state rival Michigan 16-6 in Ann Arbor, check out the recap below!

Keon Young, a class of 2025 four-star defensive back out of Florida, has scheduled an official visit with Michigan State from May 31 through June 2. Young announced the news on social media on Monday night.

Young, who currently attends Lakeland High School, has built good relationships with Michigan State secondary coach Blue Adams and cornerbacks coach Demetrice Martin throughout his recruiting process. He is looking forward to getting to know the rest of the MSU staff, and is excited to take his first visit to East Lansing.

When is comes to choosing a school, Young is looking for a program that will help him grow both on and off the field, and somewhere he feels has a family-like atmosphere.

"This will be my first trip to Michigan State and I’m looking for a place to call my home and develop me to go to the NFL," Young told Spartans Illustrated.

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I also posted this on TOS as well.

I don't know what any of you think of the man, but I have the upmost respect for him. I have had 2 brief encounters with him at gymnastic meets recently. A couple of weeks ago while I was sitting in the handicap section with my daughter who was in her wheelchair and he was busy entertaining our new president he walked by us, stopped, and said hello. Not a big deal but I thought it was awfully nice of him to do so considering who he was with. On Saturday I take my daughter to the Big Ten Gymnastics Championship. As I am wheeling her to the handicap section Haller comes up to us and greets us again. He then proceeds to clear a path for us to the handicap section (and that path was packed), shows us where we could park ourselves, and then runs off to get me a companion chair. He didn't ask someone else to do it but he did it himself. This is what I would expect from a small town HS AD, not an AD from a Big Ten College. Later on he stops by and asks us how we were doing and if we needed anything. He was friendly, respectful, and genuinely concerned about us. Now before you say "big deal", let me remind you that he was not only running a day long Big Ten Championship event, he also had a hockey championship about to take place across the street, a HS girl's basketball tournament going on, and I am sure an interest in the hoop team that was playing down in North Carolina at the same time among other more important concerns. Yet he personally made sure that this old Spartan and his daughter were well taken care of. I have no idea what his tenure will be like as AD, but he is already a winner in my book!

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Last night was historic. Two Big Ten championships within five hours and 1,000 feet of each other.

I documented it here:


I hope you enjoy it.

Following a disappointing end to a 2023-2024 season that began with a lot of hope, Tom Izzo and the Michigan State men's basketball team have a bit of soul-searching to do heading into the 2024-2025 season.

The hope for many is that the Spartans will add some more talent to the roster in the offseason than what they have right now. Doing so would help a young team. But as of now, let's examine the players who are expected to return from this year's team and the incoming freshmen, with the assumption that Sissoko, Hoggard and Smith all move on.

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Michigan State has long been regarded as one of the top programs in college hockey, even before the success of the current season.

- 3 national championships

- 11 Frozen Four appearances

- 13 conference tournament championships

- 7 conference regular season championships

However, for more than a decade, the Spartans lulled in mediocrity at best, and at worst, were the laughing stock in the Big Ten.

After a remarkable turnaround last season in head coach Adam Nightingale’s first year in charge that resulted in Michigan State being just outside the NCAA Tournament picture, the Spartans built on that during the 2023-2024 campaign.

Not only did the Spartans make the NCAA Tournament, they earned a No. 1 seed, the conference regular season championship and the conference tournament championship. The last time Michigan State accomplished all three of those feats in a season was in 2001, when the Spartans were in the CCHA. They also made the Frozen Four that year.

“It feels great,” captain defenseman Nash Nienhuis said after Michigan State was officially announced as a No. 1-seed. “We put a ton of work in this year. To see how that played out is great.”

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