Michigan State football fans can take solace knowing basketball season is almost here
By John Buhler
Michigan State football fans might as well get ready for basketball season now.
It is almost basketball season, so do not worry about a thing, Michigan State football fans.
Fans of the Michigan State Spartans football team had to know what 2020 could be for the program. It was the first year without head coach Mark Dantonio who took his retention bonus and ran, leaving the team in a rough spot. Hiring Mel Tucker away from the Colorado Buffaloes so late into the cycle did not help. Then, COVID-19 happened.
2021 will be better for the football team, but it is basketball season now
Through the Spartans’ first four games of the 2020 season, Michigan State has one win under Tucker. While that win came over the in-state rival Michigan Wolverines, this is not a good Michigan team at all. Michigan is 1-2 through its first two weeks and it feels like the beginning of the end of the Jim Harbaugh era in Ann Arbor. It is only football misery in the state of Michigan.
What ruins any semblance of positivity coming are who the Spartans have lost to. They fell narrowly at home to the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Though Rutgers is still Rutgers, they are vastly improved under head coach Greg Schiano in his second stint in Piscataway. In the last two weeks, the Michigan State offense has scored a grand total of seven points. Seven!
The Spartans were blown out 49-7 vs. the previously winless Iowa Hawkeyes at Kinnick Stadium. With a big rival and a top-10 team coming to town in the Indiana Hoosiers, Tucker’s team put up goose egg offensively, as Michigan State was shut out at home 24-0 by Tom Allen’s No. 10 team in the country. There are only five more games to feel pain like this on the gridiron, Spartans fans.
Once it is college hoops time, Michigan State fans can put this awful football season behind them and get some good sports news from Tom Izzo’s team that looks to contend with Illinois and Iowa for a Big Ten title.
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