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The Valenti Show

Is There A Nonzero Chance MSU Has A Successful Season?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico discuss MSU football and if there's a chance Jonathan Smith can lead them to success in his first season as head coach.

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0:00.0

I'll get to the Tigers at three o'clock they win again my God the angels are terrible

0:05.3

but I have a stat data and I want you to tell me when this is a pen and chase

0:17.6

you guys when this is a pen and chase. You guys get to set the rules. I'm simply taking a hand grenade of data and just rolling it out there for you. We'll get to it. We started the show with hopelessness. I want to

0:25.8

know if another thing is filed under this and I don't feel this way. I don't. But we have

0:32.0

spent so much time talking about Michigan because they can't keep

0:35.5

their scandals straight. We have spent next to no time talking about Michigan State and half of

0:41.7

our audience, much like the political landscape of this country, it is Spartans.

0:46.0

And none of us have a clue about this team.

0:49.0

I mean, there's 60 new players.

0:51.0

There is just so much unknown. And the win total in Vegas, scary, four and a half,

0:56.8

five and a half, whatever hell it is. I had a question for everybody in this room, but also

1:01.2

you the listener. Look, what State about to

1:03.2

kick off here in about 48 hours? Is there a non-zero chance this team is fun and

1:09.4

decent? And when I say decent, I mean seven or eight wins.

1:17.4

Not nine, not ten, not this thing

1:20.5

you never saw happening like TCU, none of that. I would never even dare to dream. But I'm asking, in today's

1:26.5

world of college football, where you know less about your team. And I'm guilty of this because States been bad the last couple years. You

1:35.4

enter the season with a negative connotation that really doesn't apply. I

1:38.8

admitted those kids aren't here. If we took the positive now that's that's the first step right there.

1:45.8

You admitted it first step. Truth if we took growth if we took the positive and I know we're not allowed to ever be remotely positive, Sparty, I just, I would say this.

1:58.0

Their coach lost his job pounding his beanbag in a hotel room last year. Those are facts. They had an NIL

2:06.2

disaster where players almost walked off the field. That was our facts. They

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