Michigan State Football

There are ten MSU players who must could still redshirt this season but must decide before Saturday's game at Iowa. If they play one more snap, they're ineligible for a redshirt season in 2023, meaning they'll have to sit out if they transfer.

This list of potential candidates is rooted in reality with a mix of up-and-comers whose stock is rising and veteran (but not yet old) guys who have bonafide experience as head coaches and program builders.

On Monday, Michigan State University Athletic Director Alan Haller announced he had filed a letter to Head Coach Mel Tucker expressing the intent to fire him for cause.

Barnett is exactly what MSU needs as an interim head coach in the wake of the Mel Tucker scandal. But he simply isn't qualified for the permanent job — not in the least.

Tucker's incomprehensible self-destruction has cast MSU into chaos and uncertainty. But it also likely spared Spartan football far worse ruin.

MSU is virtually certain to terminate Mel Tucker for cause once his Title IX investigation has ended. So who will replace him atop the Spartan football program? We've put together a list of 18 potential candidates.

A prominent rape survivor and activist alleges that Tucker made sexual comments and masturbated while on a phone call with her. Tucker had invited her to speak to MSU football players about the perils of sexual violence and how they could be part of the solution.

MSU can't win when it plays CMU. In fact, the Spartans are only asking for trouble when they schedule the Chippewas. So why do they keep doing it?

MSU hasn't even lost a game yet, but its $95 million head coach is getting a head start on making the case that anything and everything other than himself is to blame for another failed season.

The Big Ten performed a miracle two months ago when it released '24 and '25 football schedules that protected every conference rivalry, somehow reconciling expansion with tradition. That feat becomes even more difficult to replicate now that the league has swollen to 18 teams.