What Experts Are Getting Wrong About MSU & UofM

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00:00College football season starts tonight for Michigan State.

00:04What do you think the experts are getting wrong about the Spartans?

00:07I think that they're short selling the possibility they could be, well not be, I think they're

00:15a seven win, maybe even eight win team.

00:18I like what they have with the coaching staff because I think it's calmed things down significantly.

00:24This guy is all about low ego and high output.

00:27That's his message.

00:29Jonathan Smith has come in and I think he's done that and put a calm there.

00:34They've added some smart transfers, guys that he worked with obviously at Oregon State including

00:40the quarterback Aiden Childs.

00:41I think the center and the tight end have potential to be all Big Ten players with Miller

00:49and Velling.

00:51I think they have one of the most underrated running backs in the country, Nate Carter.

00:55I think they can get some things done there offensively, defensively I'm really curious

00:59what's going to be there.

01:00But they've got a lot of guys that have been there for a while and they're decent players.

01:05So I just think the coaching change alone is going to be good enough.

01:09When you look at Michigan State's schedule, there's a bit of a gauntlet in the middle

01:14of that schedule when they have to take on the likes of, it starts at Boston College,

01:20and it's home against Ohio State, at Oregon, home against Iowa, and at Michigan.

01:26That's a tough five game stretch.

01:28But the other seven games on the schedule are quite winnable.

01:31Are they going to win all seven games out of those?

01:34Probably not, but I don't know if they're going to lose all five of those tough games

01:37in the gauntlet either.

01:38So I'd like Michigan State to win more than five games.

01:41I think it's a seven or eight win team.

01:43I think you're right about Nate Carter.

01:46You know, this guy is, he's hard to bring down, he's slippery.

01:49So I would agree with that.

01:51From Michigan, I think two things.

01:54I went into the offseason with, I thought they had perhaps grave concerns along the

01:59offensive line.

02:00I feel much better about the offensive line as we get closer to the season.

02:04Miles Hinton has got a lot of playing experience at both Stanford and Michigan, transferred

02:09over, played some last year.

02:13He's at left tackle.

02:14You got Josh Preeb, who had all Big Ten honors at Northwestern, getting him is probably a

02:20big deal.

02:21And the right tackle, Gio Ahadi, just relying on Jansen.

02:25I mean, he's had a football crush on him forever.

02:27So I'm going to go, I think, I think it's standard when you lose as much talent as they

02:32did up front for people to expect it to be a drop-off and it probably won't be as good

02:36as it was.

02:38I feel, I feel better about it now than I did going into the offseason.

02:43I think Michigan's defense is elite and that elite defense can win you half the games right

02:49there.

02:50And you go beyond that, I do think people are sleeping on the offensive talent they

02:53have there.

02:54Diamond Edwards, we've forgotten that he can be quite good.

02:59The tight end, Colston Loveland, might be the best tight end in the country.

03:04And you've got a quarterback combination there with all the quarterbacks there that can run

03:11the ball if they have to.

03:12And if the offensive line, as you say, is better, people are, I've heard a lot of people

03:18say nine wins for Michigan.

03:21Some people say less and I'm stunned by that.

03:23I think this is a team that really, they also don't have to play Penn State this year.

03:28I think that Michigan's got potential to be a lot better than people think.

03:31So and the other thing is, I'll just say this, I think there's this belief that they've got

03:38a running quarterback and a passing quarterback.

03:41The passing quarterback can run.

03:43He might not be as good.

03:44Davis Warren, he's, don't sleep on him in the run game too.

03:49Depends who, where the snaps go and all that, but.

03:53Is he kind of like a J.J. McCarthy in that respect?

03:55I mean, people were expecting McCarthy to take off and go, but can he run as well as

03:58McCarthy?

03:59I don't want to do that because it's so, I think it's unfair to, you know, compare anyone

04:04to J.J. who had incredible success.

04:08But if you're looking for a comp and you say he's a poor man's J.J., there might be one

04:13way to put it.

04:14An amazing story.

04:15Like his junior year, he comes down with leukemia and barely plays, does fight and get back

04:20onto the field.

04:22Senior year wiped out by COVID.

04:23So basically you got this guy who was considered a quarterback prospect, who was dealt a bad

04:27hand, overcomes it, and then loses his COVID year and decides, sends tape around, Harbaugh

04:34returns his call, and he comes in in J.J.'s class as a walk-on quarterback.

04:38Now when you're coming in in J.J.'s class and they already had an established, relatively

04:43young quarterback, who's still playing, by the way, in Cade Magnum era at Iowa.

04:48I don't know if that's a sign of his confidence or what, or how to even put it, but he's overcome

04:56all that.

04:57We'll see.

04:58We'll see what happens at the quarterback spot tomorrow night.

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