OT: OSU (NTOSU) QB Chiles in portal, receiving ballz to MSU

Victory for MSU! Clearing the bar is don’t participate in phone sex with a rape survivor. 

Jonathan Smith is perfect for them. I think this Tucker affair has brought Sparties a bit back to reality that Dantonio era of championships was a once in a lifetime confluence of events. I think we'll see them level off to a perennial, annoying, 7ish win team with the occasional 10 win/B1G title run season if they're particularly senior heavy, and occasional 4-5ish win year if they're not deep.

Basically what they were for most of the 80s and 90s.

Iowa scored more (regular season) PPG than MSU. Yessh.

^^^^^. This.  Their QB will need an OL and receiving corps.   Improvement - at the QB position - perhaps, yes.   
 

In the B1G East this season, the only team with a worse record than the green & white was… Indiana.

It’s not healthy for a QB to get hit on every play.

MSU is losing almost everyone on an OL that was not very good to begin with.

Its not easy to rebuild an entire OL with depth fro pm scratch.  

Why? Honest question....I hope they become an even bigger crater of a program. Don't give them the dignity they don't deserve.

Can Smith even recruit without gold chains cigars and pit bullz?????????

He was a pretty shitty recruiter @ OSU but they probably had little to no NIL money either. 

The only thing Tugger did other than get lucky with Walker is started to improve their recruiting - they had their best class since the infamous 2016 disaster.  Smith recruits in the 50-70s generally.   Again that will improve at MSU with the money they will throw at kids but how much is to be seen. 

I think 6-6 mostly because they've been so incompetently coached the past couple of years that they've allowed 2-3 wins a year to slip away.  MSU's schedule next year looks reasonable - their OOC is FAU, BC, and ULL, and I'm not sold Maryland, Iowa, IU, Illinois, Purdue, or Rutgers are demonstrably better than them.  They're going to lose to OSU, UM, and Oregon but I think they can pull 6 wins out of that schedule.

But yeah, they're a long way from even being competitive in the conference overall.

No it's not 

5-7 teams get invited to bowls as they usually don't have enough .500 teams to go around.   And they have 2 creampuffs FAU, Ragin Cajuns.  I guess Boston College might be ok.

Aside Oregon, UM, OSU there is not much on their schedule that is not manageable if they can be competent.  And find an OL.

I could see them at 6-7 wins. They won 4 this year without an offense. 

Big 10 overall will be tougher to get into the top 3 agreed.  Specific to all the Big 10 east teams not named OSU/UM however I'd argue (as above) their individual schedules all got easier.  ALL of them remove OSU from their schedule.  OSU has beaten EVERYONE but Michigan last 3 years and even with Urban aside a Purdue here or there beat everyone as well.  Playing OSU was an auto loss for all these teams.  And obviously Michigan has raised the game the last 3 years.

Every Big 10 east team schedule just got easier by avoiding one or both of those annually.  Even if replaced by say Oregon and USC which isn't going to happen annually either for any of them. 

Yep, screw them all, the game has changed and after the job they all tried to pull on Harbaugh I hope every Big Ten team minus the newcomers takes EVERY SINGLE L POSSIBLE! Soft fan base, too quick to forget AND to forgive.

I certainly have lost any affinity/respect that I ever had for the B1G after SignGate, but in an ideal world we could continue to dominate a conference that wasn't full of terrible people.  But maybe that is asking too much.

Play nobody OOC. Lose 0-2 games. Make a playoff run. Piss off the blog/season ticket holders and let them piss and moan all the way to their Rose Bowl seats.

Ask Texas how important a résumé is.  Without the win over Alabama, they don't sniff the playoffs this year.