Reacting to Jonathan Smith's intro at Michigan State
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Mike and Rico react to Jonathan Smith's introductory press conference Tuesday afternoon.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks Kenny. |
| 0:01.0 | Uh, three o'clock if you want to hear Kenny's thoughts on Hockeytown and Patrick |
| 0:06.4 | Kane, Odyssey.com rewind. You want to hear about the lions and pistons? We're going to get to a little bit later. |
| 0:13.4 | We got to talk about Michigan State's new head coach, Jonathan Smith, press conference was today. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm not going to bore you with it. |
| 0:20.1 | All I will tell you is he was fine enough. |
| 0:23.1 | Winning a press conference, losing a press. |
| 0:25.7 | It doesn't translate to winning games. |
| 0:28.9 | What I wanted to do was this, two ways. |
| 0:32.0 | Open forum, I don't care about your biases or not. I'll tell you a lot of what I said |
| 0:38.1 | about Mel Tucker when he got hired is how I treat this and hear me out before you freak out. I told you with Tucker, I don't know if this |
| 0:46.7 | will work. I know what this man allegedly is, you know, big-time recruiter and an energy guy he's going to change modernize the brand but will it work I don't know you can go back to those |
| 0:57.5 | shows do I feel better about Jonathan Smith than Mel Tucker. |
| 1:03.0 | Yes. |
| 1:03.9 | Why? |
| 1:05.1 | It's credibility. |
| 1:07.1 | It's not the hope that he could do it at the power five level. |
| 1:09.8 | It's that he has done it. |
| 1:11.7 | Now that doesn't come without concerns and my concerns are not a |
| 1:14.8 | negative so if any weak-minded Spartan fans want to run and cry please don't please |
| 1:20.6 | hear what I'm saying. |
| 1:22.6 | You know no one likes Oregon State football more than me. |
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