{"id":9152,"date":"2023-11-25T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=9152"},"modified":"2023-11-25T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T18:14:10","slug":"michigan-state-football-reportedly-relies-staff-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=9152","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State football: Harlon Barnett, staff officially &#8220;relieved of duties&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Michigan State football has reportedly relieved its current coaching staff of its duties. The new staff could be on its way in.<\/h2>\n<p>We are officially one step closer to finding out who the next Michigan State football coach will be.<\/p>\n<p>Harlon Barnett was hoping to get an interview and be hired as the Spartans&#8217; next head coach, but it sounds like Alan Haller has let him go along with the rest of the coaching staff as of Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Multiple sources confirm MSU football&#39;s current coaching staff has been relieved of its duties by athletic director Alan Haller. Sounds like more info could be coming later today regarding the search for a new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Solari (@chrissolari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrissolari\/status\/1728469025527681481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t come as a huge surprise, but it&#8217;s interesting because Barnett was told he&#8217;d be getting an interview to be the next head coach. Even after the game, he was confident that he could lead the program into a new era. But it looks like that won&#8217;t be the case as Haller has let the staff go and now the next step will be to bring the new coach in.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State fans are probably thrilled to hear that the entire staff has been let go officially. It&#8217;s an expected step in the process, but we&#8217;ll see if the next head coach (<a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-football-5-yard-line-jonathan-smith-negotiotions\/\">likely Jonathan Smith<\/a>) will give anyone on the staff a shot like Mel Tucker did when he took over. I wouldn&#8217;t be disappointed to see Barnett held on in some capacity as well as Courtney Hawkins.<\/p>\n<p>But letting the rest of the staff go has been long past due.<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans&#8217; offensive line has regressed over the years, special teams have been horrible, play-calling has been unimaginative, and the defense has been disappointing. It&#8217;s time to hit that reset button. We&#8217;ll see who the new coach brings in to supplement him but we do know that the assistant pool will be good enough to make the Spartans a competitive football team again.<\/p>\n<p>While he may not have been a great head coach, we do need to give Barnett credit for keeping the team together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The staff has been terminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[499,191,189,504],"class_list":["post-9152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-harlon-barnett","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152","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=9152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}