Spartan Football is broken: can Jonathon Smith put all the pieces back together again?
The regular season for Spartan Football mercifully ended Friday night with a humiliating 42-0 loss to Penn State. Now, the Jonathon Smith era commences.
Spartans beaten like a piñata in race to bottom of Big Ten
For all its resources, Michigan State should never be in this position, but here they are, racing for the bottom of the Big Ten.
Spartans beat ‘Huskers 20-17, but there is no joy in Mudville (can a search committee find the answer?)
Unless Michigan State Football is content to slide into the abyss of irrelevancy within the Big Ten’s recently formatted 18 team “Super Conference”, then it can’t afford to misfire on hiring its next Head Football Coach.
It will take a Blue-Ribbon Search Committee to entice an elite coach to work amidst Michigan State chaos.
Does Alan Haller have the wherewithal to distinguish himself as a championship caliber AD, and build a championship caliber football program or will he be just another in a long list of AD place holders and wannabes? We’re about to see!
Hiring a football coach is not a gameshow and you should be outraged Michigan State hired Mel Tucker.
Hiring a football coach is not the place for random selection and “hope for the best”, yet that’s what happened when Michigan State hired Mel Tucker with a plan no more reasoned than “Spin the Wheel of Fortune”.
Harlon Barnett is 0-3 yet fans are blessed with a one-week recess to ease their pain
Note: Spartan football has a bye week so this is a much-needed week of contemplation because Spartan Football is at a tipping point. Mel Tucker should have never been hired and his hiring reflects poorly upon Michigan State athletic administration which failed to organize a coherent search at the time….
Mel Tucker is fired but the damage he wrought lingers on!
And Harlon Barnett has been a liability instead of an asset so far.
Harlon Barnett fails test: Spartans humiliated 41-7 and become a rebuilding project of the highest order.
Mel Tucker was over his head and less than 4 years after the fact, the fundamentals have decidedly declined, and Spartan Football has officially become a rebuilding project of the highest order.
Dr. Donald B Weatherspoon, a Spartan Warrior
On Saturday, Dr. Donald B. Weatherspoon will be honored as the recipient of the HENRY C. BULLOUGH VARSITY ALUMNI “S” AWARD during a gameday ceremony when the Spartans host University of Washington.
Michigan State has everything it needs to be successful…except competent Leadership.
Note: this will arguably be the last in a series of articles trying to assess Mel Tucker’s coaching tenure because Mel Tucker has been suspended. In fact, he was suspended for conduct unbecoming Michigan State University’s Head Football Coach. Yet, the problems for Spartan Football are just starting and the…
