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Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

Ep. 520 - Intel on Michigan State with Graham Couch

Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast

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4.9577 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner chats with Lansing State Journal columnist Graham Coach about Michigan State football prior to Saturday's game at Illinois. Couch breaks down the fallout of the melee at Michigan and how the suspensions impact the Spartans. He then breaks down both sides of the ball for Michigan State in what has been a disappointing 3-5 (1-4 Big Ten) season so far. He then discusses the state of the program under Mel Tucker and his massive contract extension before discussing Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo's team.


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0:49.8

Because Sparty, four suspended players so far due to that melee in the tunnel after their 29-7 loss at Michigan that dropped them to 3 and 5 and 1-4 on the season.

1:01.2

Remember, this is a team that was ranked number 15 in the country coming into the season.

1:06.6

So we talked with Graham Couch, my guy from Lansing State Journal.

1:09.7

We used to cover the Mac back of the day. He covered Bill Cuban at Western Michigan. I was covering Northern Illinois. That's what our relationship started. And he's been my go-to guy at Michigan State for a long time. I feel like he's got as good of a pulse as anybody on the Spartans program. So he chats about what is going on at Michigan State, the fallout of everything there.

1:29.0

And in year three of Mel Tucker, what has gone so wrong compared to what went so right

1:33.8

in year two of Mel Tucker?

1:36.0

And he gives some great insight and context into that program and what he took over and why

1:42.8

the 10-year contract, you know, from the outside

1:45.2

doesn't look so good in year two here. I tweeted out the other day, Mel Tucker and Brett

1:50.0

Bielma have the same Big Ten record the last two years. But Graham gives some good insight.

1:55.8

And I think Michigan's Day obviously has some concerns, but they had some concerns when

1:59.9

Mel Tucker got there.

2:01.3

And last year set a high expectation for the program. We'll see if Mel Tucker can get back to that.

2:06.6

But Michigan State is a talented team. They have some good pieces on offense. Their defense has

2:10.9

been more competitive the last couple weeks. So we'll get some more inside of that. And Graham was great on Tom iso. I asked him a Tom iso question near the end. So look forward to hearing from him. Before we get to that, the college football playoff rankings will be announced. I'm recording this on Tuesday. I would expect Illinois to be in the top 20, maybe the top 15. We know what they got to do to get there. They're going to run the table, right? They want to get to college football playoff,

2:35.6

which is we're having that conversation because we have to, right, at this point.

2:40.7

Illinois is 7 and 1, and if they win out, if they win and they add to a six-game winning streak

2:48.9

and make it a 11-game winning streak and make it a, right, 11-game win streak and beat Michigan

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