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You just hate to see it. Wait — no, you don’t.
After a decade of evening the score and more against its rival Michigan, Michigan State has been on something of a free fall. It turned a surprising win over the maize and blue in 2015 into a College Football Playoff berth, then? 3-9, a seeming rebound, but then a complete fall into irrelevance. Its legendary head coach Mark Dantonio resigned this offseason, on the eve of National Signing Day and the program hired Mel Tucker — a well-respected coach with very little track record.
That said, MSU has to turn things around significantly. The roster is depleted of talent, doesn’t have an obvious starting quarterback on the team — and not due to having multiple competitive options — and lost other big time players, including Cody White and Josiah Scott this offseason. While there’s optimism in East Lansing at the moment, it could be something of a climb for the Big Ten East program.
And then there’s this.
Michigan alum and director of the Reese’s Senior Bowl was recently scouting the Spartans on tape, praising two of its offensive linemen. It seems that he was thus extended an invitation to come to campus sometime in the future, as announced on Twitter by new director of player personnel Scott Aligo. But then NFL insider Ian Rapoport dropped something of a bombshell in response.
This is great to see. No program treated NFL scouts worse than Michigan St. Hard to imagine that helped their players get drafted. This is much better. https://t.co/bAieYiAxzr
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) May 29, 2020
While that’s a step in the right direction for MSU, given how much the fanbase continues to chirp at Michigan fans following a 44-10 shellacking, we’ll enjoy the backhanded compliment.
Regime change or not, it’s a glorious revelation.