What Experts Are Getting Wrong About MSU & UofM
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00:00College football season starts tonight for Michigan State.
00:04What do you think the experts are getting wrong about the Spartans?
00:07I think that they're short selling the possibility they could be, well not be, I think they're
00:15a seven win, maybe even eight win team.
00:18I like what they have with the coaching staff because I think it's calmed things down significantly.
00:24This guy is all about low ego and high output.
00:27That's his message.
00:29Jonathan Smith has come in and I think he's done that and put a calm there.
00:34They've added some smart transfers, guys that he worked with obviously at Oregon State including
00:40the quarterback Aiden Childs.
00:41I think the center and the tight end have potential to be all Big Ten players with Miller
00:49and Velling.
00:51I think they have one of the most underrated running backs in the country, Nate Carter.
00:55I think they can get some things done there offensively, defensively I'm really curious
00:59what's going to be there.
01:00But they've got a lot of guys that have been there for a while and they're decent players.
01:05So I just think the coaching change alone is going to be good enough.
01:09When you look at Michigan State's schedule, there's a bit of a gauntlet in the middle
01:14of that schedule when they have to take on the likes of, it starts at Boston College,
01:20and it's home against Ohio State, at Oregon, home against Iowa, and at Michigan.
01:26That's a tough five game stretch.
01:28But the other seven games on the schedule are quite winnable.
01:31Are they going to win all seven games out of those?
01:34Probably not, but I don't know if they're going to lose all five of those tough games
01:37in the gauntlet either.
01:38So I'd like Michigan State to win more than five games.
01:41I think it's a seven or eight win team.
01:43I think you're right about Nate Carter.
01:46You know, this guy is, he's hard to bring down, he's slippery.
01:49So I would agree with that.
01:51From Michigan, I think two things.
01:54I went into the offseason with, I thought they had perhaps grave concerns along the
01:59offensive line.
02:00I feel much better about the offensive line as we get closer to the season.
02:04Miles Hinton has got a lot of playing experience at both Stanford and Michigan, transferred
02:09over, played some last year.
02:13He's at left tackle.
02:14You got Josh Preeb, who had all Big Ten honors at Northwestern, getting him is probably a
02:20big deal.
02:21And the right tackle, Gio Ahadi, just relying on Jansen.
02:25I mean, he's had a football crush on him forever.
02:27So I'm going to go, I think, I think it's standard when you lose as much talent as they
02:32did up front for people to expect it to be a drop-off and it probably won't be as good
02:36as it was.
02:38I feel, I feel better about it now than I did going into the offseason.
02:43I think Michigan's defense is elite and that elite defense can win you half the games right
02:49there.
02:50And you go beyond that, I do think people are sleeping on the offensive talent they
02:53have there.
02:54Diamond Edwards, we've forgotten that he can be quite good.
02:59The tight end, Colston Loveland, might be the best tight end in the country.
03:04And you've got a quarterback combination there with all the quarterbacks there that can run
03:11the ball if they have to.
03:12And if the offensive line, as you say, is better, people are, I've heard a lot of people
03:18say nine wins for Michigan.
03:21Some people say less and I'm stunned by that.
03:23I think this is a team that really, they also don't have to play Penn State this year.
03:28I think that Michigan's got potential to be a lot better than people think.
03:31So and the other thing is, I'll just say this, I think there's this belief that they've got
03:38a running quarterback and a passing quarterback.
03:41The passing quarterback can run.
03:43He might not be as good.
03:44Davis Warren, he's, don't sleep on him in the run game too.
03:49Depends who, where the snaps go and all that, but.
03:53Is he kind of like a J.J. McCarthy in that respect?
03:55I mean, people were expecting McCarthy to take off and go, but can he run as well as
03:58McCarthy?
03:59I don't want to do that because it's so, I think it's unfair to, you know, compare anyone
04:04to J.J. who had incredible success.
04:08But if you're looking for a comp and you say he's a poor man's J.J., there might be one
04:13way to put it.
04:14An amazing story.
04:15Like his junior year, he comes down with leukemia and barely plays, does fight and get back
04:20onto the field.
04:22Senior year wiped out by COVID.
04:23So basically you got this guy who was considered a quarterback prospect, who was dealt a bad
04:27hand, overcomes it, and then loses his COVID year and decides, sends tape around, Harbaugh
04:34returns his call, and he comes in in J.J.'s class as a walk-on quarterback.
04:38Now when you're coming in in J.J.'s class and they already had an established, relatively
04:43young quarterback, who's still playing, by the way, in Cade Magnum era at Iowa.
04:48I don't know if that's a sign of his confidence or what, or how to even put it, but he's overcome
04:56all that.
04:57We'll see.
04:58We'll see what happens at the quarterback spot tomorrow night.
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