{"id":5132,"date":"2023-06-19T15:37:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T19:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2023-06-19T15:37:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T19:37:25","slug":"michigan-state-football-david-stone-fired-up-official-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=5132","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State football: 5-star DL David Stone &#8220;fired up&#8221; about official visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Michigan State football is getting a major visit from five-star defensive lineman David Stone who is &#8220;fired up&#8221; about it.<\/h2>\n<p>Over the weekend, five-star defensive lineman David Stone announced that he would be taking one final official visit to Michigan State football.<\/p>\n<p>Stone had already checked out Florida, Miami, and Oklahoma, and the Spartans were promised his last official before he set his June trip schedule. And he delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he&#8217;ll be on campus with a handful of other top targets and three other top-100 recruits.<\/p>\n<p>This visit by Stone is as big for him as it is for Michigan State &#8212; even more so for the Spartans. He has been atop the board of targets for Michigan State for over a year and Mel Tucker has to put in some serious work to make up some ground with Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Spartan fans are excited about this visit and, apparently, so is Stone.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fired up about this one let\u2019s go babyyy!!!Last OV\ud83d\udc9a\ud83e\ude93<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David \u201cStoney\u201d Stone Jr. (@iamdavidstonejr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamdavidstonejr\/status\/1670452673831743489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The five-star defensive lineman from IMG Academy has always shown the Spartans a ton of love and hearing him say he&#8217;s &#8220;fired up&#8221; about this final official visit is pretty big.<\/p>\n<p>While I still think Oklahoma is the clear favorite here, Tucker could make up some ground and at least get Stone thinking. The longer this recruitment goes, the better chance I think Michigan State has. The fact that he didn&#8217;t commit at Oklahoma last weekend was slightly surprising, but a good sign.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there&#8217;s not a ton of time left in this recruitment and Michigan State needs to hit a home run this weekend in order to have a legit shot.<\/p>\n<p>We can probably expect Tucker to be spending a lot of one-on-one time with Stone as well as fellow top 2024 target Nick Marsh this upcoming weekend. He will need to make both of these guys feel like they&#8217;re his No. 1s and show them that they&#8217;d flourish in East Lansing.<\/p>\n<p>A big weekend is approaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Stone can&#8217;t wait for this visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[230,191,189],"class_list":["post-5132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fb-recruiting","tag-david-stone","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}