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The Valenti Show

Michigan State Hires J. Batt as New AD

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico react to Michigan State’s hiring of former Georgia State AD J. Batt as their new athletic director.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right. So obviously, Ragnow News of the Day, we're going to get back into it.

0:04.6

We have done, hell, damn near two and a half hours of it.

0:08.4

I wanted to just do one segment on this.

0:11.8

Obviously, we make a little bit of a bit of it, but my discontent with my university.

0:16.3

And frankly, Rico's growing discontent.

0:18.4

But the athletic director's role has been something on

0:23.8

this show that I was irate about because I just wasn't an Alan Haller fan.

0:31.3

Long story short, MSU has hired a new AD, so we can do one segment in four hours on it because ultimately I think the fate of Michigan

0:41.1

State's revenue athletics falls, it hangs in the balance.

0:44.5

The sport is moving like a bullet train through Asia.

0:48.5

They go like 400 miles an hour there.

0:50.9

Okay.

0:51.1

We have Amtrak.

0:52.0

It goes like 30.

0:53.1

It's just moving at a pace that if you

0:55.9

don't move with it, you are several time zones away. And I think that's where state is either at now

1:01.7

or quickly headed. They have poached Georgia Tech's AD, J. Bat, literally goes by the letter J. Not Jason

1:10.4

or Jeremy or J short, it's J period.

1:14.4

Will you go by R. Beard?

1:17.2

Are you stony now?

1:18.2

He said the same thing.

1:19.4

Okay.

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