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Michigan State Spartans (official thread)

College football recruiting: Michigan State holds early 2023 edge over rival Michigan

Michigan enters 2022 off its best season under Jim Harbaugh, as the Wolverines advanced to their first College Football Playoff, winning the Big Ten Championship and beating Ohio State. Harbaugh and Michigan’s lone regular-season loss came at Michigan State and Mel Tucker, who has an edge in the 2023 recruiting cycle. Tucker is also 2-0 against Michigan since his move to Lansing.

With much of the 2023 recruiting cycle to go, the Spartans rank 13th nationally and fifth in the Big Ten, with eight 4-star commits and three 3-star pledges. The Wolverines are No. 38 nationally and 11th in the conference with two 4-star and five 3-star commits.

ON MICHIGAN STATE'S RECRUITING:

"Folks in the Big Ten are kind of halfway aggravated about it, because they’ve already gotten used to the idea ‘Ohio State is going to own us in recruiting, and Penn State’s going to be pretty good and Michigan’s going to be pretty good.’ If I’m in the Big Ten — I have no interest in adding Michigan State to that equation. But they’re there, and next to Ohio State, there is no more tenacious recruiting operation happening in the Big Ten right now than in East Lansing, Michigan. They’re getting after it.

“When Mel Tucker came in there — he told you what he was going to do. When Mel Tucker got to Michigan State, he said ‘We’re going to recruit nationally, we have to recruit nationally, if we want to get where we want to go, we cannot be a regional recruiter. We’ve got to be a national recruiter, because we’ve got a national division, and a lot of people laughed at him. Why? Because he was selling you on the fact that he was going to do something we’ve never seen Michigan State do.

"When you go up there and you go to games — I was texting back and forth with a guy who played there in the 60’s when I was at the Michigan game — and I’m looking at those banners and those national championships they won in a very bygone era — if you’re my age and you’re younger than me. Since then though? The sport has evolved, and a lot of folks thought it had left Michigan State behind — it hadn’t.

Entire article: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-...ge-over-rival-Michigan-189037084/#189037084_1
 
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The Detroit Free Press sued Michigan State for its refusal to turn over open records regarding gifts made to the school that were used to help fund head football coach Mel Tucker's salary, the publication announced. The Free Press contends Michigan State violated open records laws when it blocked a Free Press request for its agreements with donors Mat Ishbia and Steve St. Andre.

University president Samuel Stanley later denied an appeal for the records, stating that the university weighed individual privacy as superior to the publication's interest in the matter. Ishbia and St. Andre are reported to be the two largest donors to Michigan State athletics.

"It is the University's position that the individuals' privacy interests outweigh the Free Press' stated interest in disclosure," Stanley wrote in his denial to the Free Press.
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Michigan State declined comment on the suit, according to the outlet. The Free Press said the university had not seen the lawsuit at the time it declined comment on the matter.
 
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Sparty's back to being Sparty

So that extension for Tucker wasn't a sound investment
raw
 
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