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The Valenti Show

Valenti Dishes On MSU's Firing Of Jonathan Smith & Hiring Of Pat Fitzgerald

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Valenti offers his two cents on his alma mater's hiring of Pat Fitzgerald as their new football head coach.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I want to explain something.

0:01.8

I have nothing but loving my heart for Jeremy Otto.

0:03.9

He's a wonderful man, a quality father, and a decent update guy.

0:07.8

But how did we arrive at a point where we are platforming someone who cheated in Spartan Stadium,

0:16.1

who was an architect, one of the biggest cheating scandals in history of the sport?

0:20.3

And we have a newspaper taking his opinion, which doesn't mean three crumbled-up Cheetos to anybody.

0:28.3

His opinion about Michigan State's hire of Pat Fitzger.

0:32.0

I ain't having it.

0:33.3

You just go elsewhere with that.

0:36.3

His 15 minutes of fame were up about 13 minutes ago. It's just remarkable to me. Oh, yes, I have an idea. Let's go to someone who's a cheat and get their opinion of our, what? I guess they want the clue. Like, why would I care? What do he has to say? I don't. And that's why I said. You're not putting that in the up. Get out of here with that crap.

0:55.6

But hey, while we're here for a moment, before we get to the calls, the Pat Fitzgerald thing, for people tuning in and going, oh, golly, gee, there's nothing explosive. I'm handling this just like the Jonathan Smith hiring. I don't have a lot of terrible things to say.

1:11.6

I don't have a lot of great things to say.

1:13.4

Here's where I'm at. just like the Jonathan Smith hiring. I don't have a lot of terrible things to say.

1:11.5

I don't have a lot of great things to say.

1:13.4

Here's where I'm at.

1:15.5

First of all, I don't care about the press conference.

1:18.5

Like, he'll win the press conference.

1:20.2

He's a very good speaker.

1:22.1

This empty can would win the press conference based off of what they just had.

1:25.9

Jonathan, is that you?

1:27.4

So, look, it's about I need... would win the press conference based off of what they just had. Jonathan, is that you?

1:32.9

So, look, it's about I need the athletic director.

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