BONUS: QB Competition Takes Center Stage at Michigan State's Spring Game | '5 Star Zone'
The Valenti Show
Audacy
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
From '5 Star Zone' (subscribe here): Michigan State has an open QB competition and Rico Beard lets you know who stood out to him at the open spring practice. Download the latest episode of the 5 Star Zone today.
To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of the Five Star Zone. Rico Beard your host and I was at the spring |
| 0:05.6 | game for Michigan State with a spring practice last Saturday. It was a beautiful day. May have been |
| 0:10.8 | a record setting day for temperature and a lot of observations that I walked away with. So I |
| 0:16.7 | just want to jump right into that and probably the biggest one is the quarterback and when it came |
| 0:20.5 | to the quarterback position there was three guys out there but it looks like it's really up |
| 0:25.6 | down to two people. It's an open competition. Mel Tucker said that even though Peyton Thorne is |
| 0:30.1 | the incumbent everybody has a shot at being the QB starting QB for next year. After I finished |
| 0:36.8 | watching the game it kind of boiled down to either Peyton Thorne or Noah Kim. That's just to me. |
| 0:43.8 | Now I think that those are going to be the two guys that go into the summer battling it out for |
| 0:49.9 | that position and the reason being is they just look the sharpest with the first team. |
| 0:56.4 | When you look at it now for Noah Kim what he's going to find out is a lot of pressure comes with |
| 1:02.1 | being the starting quarterback not just Michigan State but anywhere and you can see Peyton Thorne |
| 1:08.0 | even talked he's starting to feel the pressure. You can kind of see that on his throws. He's not |
| 1:13.6 | as comfortable. Kim is still feeling the job of well you know what I'm the backup guy and the |
| 1:20.9 | backup guy is always the looser guy. The backup guy knows that you know what I'm just going to go |
| 1:25.8 | out there and have fun. You kind of saw that with Noah Kim last year when he got into the games. |
| 1:29.6 | He just slung the ball and he threw a lot of touchdowns. He excited a lot of fans. |
| 1:35.1 | Peyton Houser was a third quarterback out there. Now he completed some passes but |
| 1:40.5 | he just did not look as comfortable. I know that's a big fan favorite. Everybody wants to see him. |
| 1:46.0 | He was the elite 11 quarterback but in my opinion he did not look that comfortable and I looked at |
| 1:51.5 | that practice as pressure. Wasn't a game but all eyes were on you and you wanted to really stand out |
| 1:58.4 | and he did not stand out and when you're you know your Peyton Thorne you do have a little bit of |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Audacy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Audacy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.