{"id":18856,"date":"2024-08-22T12:24:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=18856"},"modified":"2024-08-22T13:05:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T17:05:02","slug":"michigan-state-football-program-are-the-best-theyve-been-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=18856","title":{"rendered":"Vibes within the Michigan State football program are the best they\u2019ve been in years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The vibes within the Michigan State football program are the best they&#8217;ve been in years thanks to the new coaching staff.<\/h2>\n<p>Comradery has been missing from this <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-football-meet-your-2024-team-captains\/\">Michigan State football<\/a> team for the last five years and I don\u2019t think we even noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Smith changed that when he reshuffled the roster.<\/p>\n<p>The team is having fun at fall camp and it&#8217;s showing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">having some fun at camp \ud83d\ude01 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oK9auqfTJg\">pic.twitter.com\/oK9auqfTJg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michigan State Football (@MSU_Football) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSU_Football\/status\/1825270822988366110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We saw so much content during the Mel Tucker era all the posts run together and honestly, the small things can easily be missed.<\/p>\n<p>Photos are glanced at.<\/p>\n<p>Videos are sped up.<\/p>\n<p>Reports are skimmed.<\/p>\n<p>But I still have difficulty recalling these moments during Tucker\u2019s time \u2013 honest and genuine relationships within the roster. Sure, winning makes the optics look better. The Peach Bowl year brought a ton of that. It makes it hard to be critical of the little things.<\/p>\n<p>We always saw players hanging out at Tucker\u2019s house, but it still felt like something was missing.<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly, Tucker led a divided locker room. The program\u2019s NIL structure appeared to split the team. Some players got paid big and others scraped by. Whether that was Tucker\u2019s fault or just the state of college football, I\u2019ll let you decide.<\/p>\n<p>From an outsider\u2019s perspective, it feels like Jonathan Smith healed the wound from the jump. That alone should make us all excited for this upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>The pay parity appears to be rectified.<\/p>\n<p>The locker room appears unified.<\/p>\n<p>And the players appear to love each other again.<\/p>\n<p>Football is the ultimate team sport. You must excel in all three facets of the game. Each position group needs one another. No synergy means no winning. Sure, an elite quarterback can mask a lot of problems but not even Tom Brady is going to win being protected by an offensive line that can\u2019t communicate or a defense that can\u2019t guard a slant.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m trying to say is that comradery can be an overlooked aspect of a team. From the outside, it appeared neglected in the past and the new regime has repaired it.<\/p>\n<p>I was never in or around the locker room. I could be completely off base. I\u2019m just sharing my opinion from the outside looking in.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure there are plenty of moments that I missed and you\u2019re more than welcome to call me out. I just think they might be hard to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vibes are immaculate right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":18891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59,191,189,504],"class_list":["post-18856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}