Tag: MSU football coaching search

Urban Meyer reportedly has no desire to coach football again

For now, cross Urban Meyer off the Spartans’ coaching candidates list

Despite rumors connecting Michigan State to Urban Meyer, the three-time national champion head coach has “no desire” to coach again.

Meyer was asked about any interest in returning to coaching on Monday, but was quick to shoot down the possibility of returning to the game. Meyer currently works for FOX and hasn’t coached since 2021.

Meyer has been linked to Michigan State’s open head coaching position over the past few weeks with fans starting to get their hopes up. However, it sounds like Meyer will not be a true candidate for the position — or at least that’s how things currently stand.

Read more on Meyer’s comments towards returning to coaching by clicking on the tweet below:

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Report: MSU football has ‘some interest’ in Minnesota’s P.J. Fleck for head coach position

Could Michigan State football be rowing the boat next fall?

Could Michigan State football be rowing the boat next fall?

College football insider Bruce Feldman is reporting that he’s heard Michigan State has “some interest” in current Minnesota head coach P.J. Fleck for its soon to be vacant head coach position. It came out on Monday that Michigan State has notified currently suspended head coach Mel Tucker he will be fired for cause.

Feldman put together a complete list of candidates Michigan State could consider but Fleck was the only one he noted there was known interest from the Spartans. Fleck has been at Minnesota since 2017, and has led the Golden Gophers to nine or more wins in each of the last three full seasons (not including the COVID shortened 2020 year). Prior to his time at Minnesota, Fleck turned around Western Michigan in going from 1-11 in his first season to a 13-1 year and Cotton Bowl appearance in 2016.

Whether or not Fleck would consider leaving one Big Ten school for another is a whole other question. But it’s interesting to hear from Feldman that the Spartans are at least interested in Fleck at this point in the early stages of the coaching search.

Click on the tweet below to read Feldman’s complete breakdown on potential candidates Michigan State will pursue to replace Tucker:

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REACTION: Luke Fickell turns down Michigan State

From the heart. How this blogger feels about MSU’s coaching search.

Hello, darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘Neath the halo of a streetlamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

“Fools,” said I, “You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you.”
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, “The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence.”

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