Does Michigan State have the second-best QB and WR in the Big Ten behind Ohio State?

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ohio State's first road game of the 2022 football season won't come until Week 6 when the Buckeyes visit the Michigan State Spartans in East Lansing. On this Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises is joined by Matt Wenzel of MLive.com to discuss what could be a top-10 matchup, just like it was last season when the Spartans came to Ohio Stadium in late November. Is Mel Tucker, making nearly $10 million a year, in for the long haul at Michigan State? Can he make the Spartans a regular 10-win team and a thorn in the side of the Buckeyes like the Spartans were during the best days of the Mark Dantonio era? Is Payton Thorne potentially the second-best quarterback in the Big Ten behind C.J. Stroud? Is Jayden Reed potentially the second-best receiver in the Big Ten behind Jaxon Smith-Njigba? Could Michigan State's last-in-the-nation pass defense be vastly improved? The week-by-week schedule preview is now halfway home. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you been, look I talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:26.2	Fuck I talk, Michigan State preview today, big game ahead as we work through the Ohio State
0:32.3	schedule joined by Matt Wenzel of mlive.com, a place where you want to go to find out about
0:38.4	Spartans. Matt, thanks for joining us here on Buck I talk. Of course, still again, anytime.
0:44.9	This people get in trouble. I'm with the listeners need to know this. If you come on the show and
0:49.0	you're a pleasant person and you're a good on the pod, then I take advantage of that. And then I go
0:53.9	back to you more, more, more, more, more. So Matt has been on many times in the past. He's been
0:59.2	on the college football survivor show and he's always excellent. And Michigan State is a really
1:03.8	interesting team to talk about Matt. And we know that Mel Tucker 9.5 million dollars a year got
1:13.4	Ryan Day arrays. That was very helpful to Ryan Day. It certainly helped. But as Mel Tucker,
1:18.6	Cleveland native enters year three in East Lansing. The 9.5 million dollars a year 10 years,
1:25.4	right? Was it a 10 year deal? 10 years. 95 million fully guaranteed. What does that do for the
1:32.0	Michigan State football program? Does it change anything? Does it change their ability to win long
1:38.8	term? Does it change the expectations? Not just from fans, but maybe from the administration,
1:44.0	from the board of trustees. This was a big investment in what a lot of people think. And I think
1:50.2	it's a very good football coach. But when you're given Mel Tucker 9.5 million dollars a year,
1:55.3	guaranteed for 10 years. At the end of year two, what does anything change for what Michigan State
2:01.8	football is? I mean, I think some is that you can go out and one of the knocks against Mel is he,
2:10.1	you know, he never has been stayed in one place very long. I think four years is the longest.
2:14.2	If I'm never that correctly. But, you know, so, you know, negative recruiting, you know, people
2:19.2	would say, oh, well, he's not going to be there very long, you know. Well, now, I mean, at least,
2:23.0	you know, you have the 10 years, you have 95 million granted. You read the language of the contract.
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