{"id":8195,"date":"2023-10-25T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=8195"},"modified":"2023-10-25T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T21:21:07","slug":"urban-meyer-refers-to-michigan-now-should-intrigue-msu-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=8195","title":{"rendered":"Urban Meyer has changed his nickname for Michigan which may hint at MSU interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Every single Urban Meyer interview from now until Michigan State hires its next head coach will be dissected heavily.<\/h2>\n<p>The #RaiseTheFlag portion of the Michigan State fanbase which has been clamoring for <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/why-urban-meyer-would-fix-michigan-state-football-long-run\/\">Urban Meyer<\/a> may have just gotten a little stronger on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to former Sports Illustrated and FOX Sports journalist Jay Clemons, who also happens to be a Michigan State alum, Urban appeared on the Big Ten Network&#8217;s &#8216;Big Ten Today&#8217; show and had an interesting new nickname for Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>For years, Urban referred to Michigan as &#8220;the school up north&#8221; which made since because he was an Ohio State coach. But on Wednesday, he may a slight change to the Wolverines&#8217; nickname. He reportedly referred to them as &#8220;the rival school&#8221; on the show.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This interesting change should make <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarkoStateNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DarkoStateNews<\/a>\u2019 heart soar: For years, Urban Meyer has consistently referred to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Michigan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Michigan<\/a> as \u201cThe School Up North.\u201d But for this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BigTenToday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BigTenToday<\/a>, Meyer has reclassified Michigan as \u201cThe Rival School.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RaiseTheFlag?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RaiseTheFlag<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MichiganState?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MichiganState<\/a> \ud83c\udfc8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OQCgoUaH2Q\">pic.twitter.com\/OQCgoUaH2Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jay Clemons (@ByJayClemons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByJayClemons\/status\/1717269356583813583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Could this be something? Absolutely. Does this slight nickname change mean that he&#8217;s taking the Michigan State job? No. But it is noteworthy that he decided to change the nickname up now after years of referring to the Wolverines as something else.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, Urban could even be doing this to throw everyone off. He knows that a lot of fans are listening to his every word in interviews and on Big Noon Kickoff. Fans are crazy and he knows this. Maybe he&#8217;s just having fun with this whole situation. Either way, it seems like this is a pretty noteworthy vocabulary change for the former Ohio State head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe soon he can refer to Michigan as &#8220;that school down the road&#8221; and get every Michigan State fan believing in his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already heard plenty of speculation about Meyer to Michigan State and the rumors have been swirling. Some have shot these rumors down while others are saying that there&#8217;s fire behind all the smoke.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ll find out for sure soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>But this nickname change for Michigan is\u00a0<em>very<\/em> interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re really grasping at anything at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[191,189,504,521],"class_list":["post-8195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-urban-meyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195","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=8195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}