Michigan State football players share promising message about the future

It’s been almost a full week since the 2024 Michigan State football season came to an abrupt end.

The Spartans were fighting for bowl eligibility last Saturday before Rutgers ripped away any hope they had with a 41-7 finish to the game after being down 7-0 following the first drive. Michigan State fans were left speechless and honestly a little angry regarding the way the season ended. It felt like there was no fight. It felt like the bad years of the Mel Tucker era.

Unlike the Tucker era, though, players came out to voice their belief in the program following the disappointing finale and they’ve been talking fans off the ledge all week long.

First, it was Jack Velling after the game. He was asked what he would tell portal players who were looking to come to Michigan State. He said that Michigan State has the best staff in the nation and East Lansing is a great spot.

Jack Velling: "I would tell people in the portal 'we got the best coaching staff in the nation, we got a great culture here, East Lansing is a great spot.'"

— Emmett Matasovsky (@E_Matasovsky57) December 1, 2024

Then Kristian Phillips responded to a tweet saying that 8-4 is an unrealistic record for Michigan State next year.

You be real stop down playing us, I hate seeing it, we gone get this program right before I leave that was my message when I committed here that’s my message now

— Kris phillips “Big Dooley” (@True_ballers16) December 2, 2024

Phillips went on to respond to another fan who said “didn’t he enter the portal last year” by saying he did but decided to stay because he loves Jonathan Smith and the rest of the staff.

And then there were other players tweeting about their optimism for the future.

WE WILL BE BACK 💯💯💯#GOGREEN 💚

— B I G W O R M (@RobertsBen8) December 1, 2024

Heading in the right direction. #GoGreen

— Wayne Matthews III (@WayneM9_) December 3, 2024

Ben Roberts and Wayne Matthews III had some positive things to say about the future of the program and those tweets make it pretty clear that both plan on staying next year (surely this won’t be a cold take). Getting Roberts and Matthews back will be big for the defense and both could very well be starters by the time the 2025 season kicks off.

Oh, and we can’t forget Aidan Chiles’ words following the season finale. He said that he only cares about the fans who have been there the whole way and that next season will be different. Love that confidence.

Michigan State football has some legit leaders and they all seem to be on the same page.