Fall Football Breakdown: MSU's specialists
It’s been five long years since Michigan State has had any doubt at its kicker position. That’s how great Matt Coghlin was. Consistent, clutch and, mostly, durable.
It’s been five long years since Michigan State has had any doubt at its kicker position. That’s how great Matt Coghlin was. Consistent, clutch and, mostly, durable.
I’m here to help you. Not out of the kindness of my heart, but selfishly as I want you all to be on your best behavior and for us upperclassmen not to immediately be able to pick you out as you awkwardly stand there with your phone in your hand as the alma mater starts to play.
Strayhorn wrote a letter on July 29 resigning from his seat on the state Board of Education, just weeks after the lawsuit went public.
We’re exactly one month away from Michigan State’s opening matchup versus Western Michigan, with training camp opening this week. Here are six essential questions to investigate with the season on the horizon.
Henderson’s return was a welcome sight for MSU who gets back one of its strongest leaders on the team. It also wiped away the potentially cloudy future of Michigan State’s safety position.
Christian and Cole Krygier have played alongside each other from peewee, to juniors, all the way to Michigan State. The Krygiers were a package and don’t really know hockey in any other way.
It remains to be seen how this class will round out, but if it continues to trend in the direction it has been, it has the potential to accomplish special things in East Lansing.
“We were not very good last year and we know that,” Tucker said. “It is up to us to figure out a way to be more consistent to give our football team a chance to beat good teams.”
Reed said on the field is not where he feels he has made the best strides this offseason. It’s in his confidence and with his own inner peace.
“Someone's got to confront that and so if it's not one of the players, it's going to be a coach,” Tucker said. “Once you get the players doing that, especially your quarterback, now you're cooking with gas.”
“It was really cool,” Gucciardi said. “It's something I've been working for my whole life. To have that goal achieved means a lot to me."
In this world of college football, it’s survival of the fittest and the Big Ten has moved forward with ensuring its survival.
To the average spectator, gymnastics is a sport in which athletes effortlessly fly and tumble through the air in incredible feats of strength. What they don’t see, however, is the work that goes on behind the scenes to build the muscles and stamina needed to make it look so effortless.
Keeping it plain and simple, it was a rough go for Michigan State’s cornerback group in 2021.
The women’s swim and dive Title IX lawsuit against MSU had a hearing on the preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court on July 21. The hearing consisted of back and forth oral arguments from both parties’ lawyers.
The Midseason Watch List will be released on Oct. 25, when voting will begin. The field will be narrowed down to the final 16 candidates on Nov. 8, and then dwindled down to three finalists who will be announced on Nov. 21.
“They want a big leap from me, too,” Akins said. “They want me to be one of the best defenders on the team and one of the best offensive players on the team.”
According to a release from the LA District Attorney's Office, Bridges is facing one felony count of injuring a child's parent and two felony counts of of child abuse under circumstances or conditions likely to cause great bodily injury or death.
On July 18, MSU alumna Tori Franklin became the first American female athlete to medal in the triple jump.
“It’s all about the hours you spend when no one is watching,” Kohler said.