Coaches across the country are pressing their sport coats and digging out their school color tie while stepping up to the podium. Most of them understand the best way to keep their job is to keep the fan base happy and alumni in the stands. Our new coach despite limited experience and being largely unknown outside of football junkies and those that bled gree and white, has proven he is up to the preseason task , while saying all the right things. It is the time of year to to sell your program to the fan base and get butts’ into seats. It is easy to recite the old adage “talk is cheap but it takes money to buy whiskey “ but it is important to understand the public relations side of the job and so far MT has proven he does and has had a strong showing while at the podium . Soon enough the questions at press events will get harder and even younger fans will question roster descriptions. Coach speak and we’ll rehearsed players comments will start to have less impact than on field performance. Even the digital media , whom are so desperate to have access, will apologetically ask an occasional tough question. While many Spartan fans haven’t forgot the mega salary and they are hoping that jumping into the deep end of big time college sports will produce favorable results. To say the linebetween student- athlete competition and professional sports has been blurred would be a massive understatement . The fan base , like most issues in our country , are pretty heavily divided on the new direction of college sports and MSU specifically. My best guess is winning will solve lots of problems. At MSU winning is the goal but possibly a more realistic hope is at least improved play. So far the new regimen has made progress on most all fronts and soon we will see if the talk was cheap or if there is money to buy celebratory whiskey. In the meantime it’s the season for hope and we all can agree on that, let’s have a 🥃 .
