{"id":7879,"date":"2023-10-14T10:11:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T14:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=7879"},"modified":"2023-10-14T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T14:11:01","slug":"michigan-state-football-katin-houser-officially-starting-vs-rutgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=7879","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State football: Katin Houser officially starting vs. Rutgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>After a couple of weeks of speculation, Katin Houser has been confirmed as the Michigan State football QB1.<\/h2>\n<p>Folks, we have a new starter &#8212; officially. According to reports on Saturday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-football-fearless-predictions-rutgers-2023\/\">Michigan State football<\/a> fans can expect to see a new starting quarterback take the field at Rutgers at noon. This comes after a couple of weeks of rumors that Katin Houser was starting, but it&#8217;s been confirmed by two reliable sources.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Thamel of ESPN tweeted out the confirmation from a source earlier this morning, but it was confirmed by Michigan State 247Sports insider Justin Thind which essentially makes it official.<\/p>\n<p>You can read his VIP article here, explaining that he was named the started over a week ago and has had ample time to prepare.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MichiganState?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MichiganState<\/a> QB Katin Houser will make his first career vs Rutgers today at noon.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made on October 3rd, a couple days after MSU\u2019s loss to Iowa, so Houser was able to get first-team reps these last two weeks.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8wZZn1Hm8U\">https:\/\/t.co\/8wZZn1Hm8U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Justin Thind (@JustinThind) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinThind\/status\/1713180718967243097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One, this is great news that he&#8217;s been preparing for the last week and a half as the starter. And two, this could mean that the offense is ready to actually be a threat again. While Houser isn&#8217;t going to fix all of the issues on offense, he could help mask some of the shortcomings in the passing game. The Spartans just couldn&#8217;t be trusted to throw the ball or even move the ball down the field over the last three games. Houser can change that.<\/p>\n<p>Do I expect this to be some magic fix? Absolutely not and I don&#8217;t think any of us should. We should be patient when breaking in a brand-new quarterback, especially one who probably has the weight of the fanbase on his shoulders &#8212; in a road environment, no less.<\/p>\n<p>We have to remember that the coaches and personnel are the same. So Jay Johnson&#8217;s play-calling isn&#8217;t going to magically improve nor is that offensive line.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, this is positive news. The Spartans made a necessary change. Baby steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59,246,191,189,504],"class_list":["post-7879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-featured","tag-katin-houser","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879","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=7879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}