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and the team overall looks uninspired,” Johnson posted on X on Oct. 27 after MSU’s loss to Michigan.
Big-name alumni were not the only indication of a fan base ready for change. The sparse crowd of 30,317 that showed up at Ford Field on Saturday for the season finale made its feelings clear. A group of shirtless fans gathered in an upper corner of the stadium and started “Fire Smith!” chants that echoed throughout the stadium.
The chants were not far-fetched, either. MSU appeared on the verge of blowing another game as Maryland ripped off a 47-yard gain on thirdand-8 early in the fourth quarter, having already outscored the Spartans 21–7 in the half to erase what had been a 24–7 MSU lead.
The Spartans ultimately pulled out a 38-28 win — their lone Big Ten win
winless conference slate since 1958.
But by the game’s end Smith still had no idea what 2026 would look like.
“We have continued to converse through the week. I’m sure we’ll begin talking again in the coming days,” Smith said after the game regarding his discussions with Batt.
When asked directly whether he would be back for 2026, Smith responded: “Don’t have that.”
The 46-year-old coach, who signed a seven-year, $52.85 million deal on Nov. 25, 2023, will still be owed $33.5
years and two months on his contract.
He initially appeared to be a strong
hoping to return to national relevance and compete for Big Ten titles. Smith left his alma mater, Oregon State, with a 34-35 overall record, capped by an 8-4 season in 2023.
In six years in Corvallis, he rebuilt the Beavers from the ground up,
producing three winning seasons after a 2-10 debut in 2018. His best year came in 2022, when the team
Calling Smith’s two seasons at MSU a disappointment would be an understatement, but the coaching search is officially underway. The move gives Batt an opportunity to bring in his own hire, as Smith was appointed by former Athletic Director Alan Haller.
Once a new coach is hired, it will be MSU’s fourth head coach since 2019
a program that reached the College Football Playoff just over a decade ago.
“Michigan State football has a proud history, a history that includes National Championships, Rose Bowl victories, Big Ten Championships, and a College Football Playoff appearance,” Batt said. “The standards for our program have not changed. It is our expectation that we compete for championships.
TOM IZZO GIVES THOUGHTS ON FIRING OF JONATHAN SMITH
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Jonathan Smith, Tom Izzo expressed his thoughts about the former coach, but overall noted that it was time for a change.
Izzo spoke about the team’s matchup against Iowa tomorrow, but the bulk of the press
and speculation of Pat Fitzgerald as the new leader of Michigan State Football.
Izzo said he talked with Smith this morning and said he will support any coach who is hired next.
“I am saddened by what happened. I understood it. He understood it,” Izzo said. “I talked to him today, he understood it, which is really important. But it doesn’t mean we have to like it.”
After two seasons with losing records, Smith a staunch critic of the current age of college
athletics, said that the way coaches are hired, especially in football, is “demented.”
“As head coaches, we understand our responsibility. We understand that everything is not rosy,” Izzo said. “Because of this demented
“I understood it. He (Jonathan Smith) understood it...But it doesn’t mean we have to like it.”
Tom
Izzo Head Coach, Men’s Basketball
way we’re doing this now, people are being hired
Just hours after the firing, rumors were reported about a new hire for the team. Izzo said
MSU FOOTBALL ANNOUNCES PAT FITZGERALD AS ITS NEW HEAD COACH
By Kaspar Haehnle khaehnle@statenews.com
A new era of Michigan State football has begun just as quickly as the last era ended.
On Monday, Dec. 1, MSU athletics announced that Pat Fitzgerald will be the next head coach of MSU’s football program. It’s an announcement
coach Jonathan Smith.
“Today marks the beginning of a new era for Michigan State Football,” said athletic director J Batt. “Pat Fitzgerald is widely recognized as an exceptional football coach, whose teams play with extreme toughness and grit, demonstrate continual improvement and
Michigan State Football, as he understands the Big Ten, has great relationships throughout the Midwest, and embodies the values on which our program was built. His incredible passion will resonate throughout the program, connecting with all members of our Spartan community, including student-athletes, coaches, staff, alumni, and donors.”
Fitzgerald spent 17 seasons as Northwestern’s
head coach, accumulating a 110-101 record in overall play and a 65-76 record in Big Ten play with the Wildcats. His tenure with Northwestern came to an abrupt end in July 2023 when he
the school announced at the time. Fitzgerald sued Northwestern University for wrongful termination in Oct. 2023, and recently the parties reached a settlement in August 2025.
The 50-year-old coach had many successful seasons at Northwestern. That success peaked in the latter half of his tenure, when Fitzgerald game victories, and received the 2018 Big Ten Coach of the Year award. Most notably, in 2018 and 2020, he led his Wildcat teams to the Big Ten championship game, where both teams fell to Ohio State. Those two appearances remain the only Big Ten championship game berths in Northwestern history.
“Pat Fitzgerald is a proven leader who understands the full mission of intercollegiate athletics — competitive excellence, academic achievement, and the holistic development of student-athletes,” said MSU President Kevin
M. Guskiewicz, Ph.D. “His track record of building disciplined, resilient teams and his commitment to coaching with integrity make him
Fitzgerald will now try to bring that same success to the MSU football program — a program that has endured disappointing seasons since the turn of the decade. Over the past four seasons, MSU has gone 18–30 overall and 9–27 in Big Ten play, with no bowl appearances. It’s coming off a 4–8 season, one in which the Spartans lost eight straight games and one that ultimately cost Smith his job.
Fitzgerald has been out of coaching for three seasons. Now he’s back, this time dressed in green and white. Arriving on the banks of the Red Cedar, he will attempt to turn around a program that hasn’t been at its best.
“I am honored to be named the head football coach at Michigan State University,” said Fitzgerald. “I’d like to thank President Guskiewicz and Athletics Director Batt for this opportunity. This is a program with a deep and storied tradition, a passionate fan base,
in J Batt’s ability to hire a new coach.
“I could support whoever they put in front of me,” Izzo said. “I really mean that, because I think they’ll do their due diligence and try to
In September, President Kevin Guskiewicz said athletics is the “front porch” to the university, noting that sports, especially football, bring in revenue for all facets of MSU. Izzo took a similar stance today.
“I’ll say this till the day I leave this place. I can do a lot of things here. [Women’s golf head coach] Stacy Sabotnik talked to her this morning. Adam [Nightingale] is doing incredible things. Our volleyball has been incredible. Our soccer has been incredible. It just doesn’t match up to football.”
“We put them all together, and we probably are as important as half of a football program. And that’s not insulting. That’s not demeaning to the rest of us. That’s — as my son would say — those are facts.”
and a commitment to excellence that extends most about this opportunity was the vision for what Michigan State can be for years to come. We will restore tradition, and I’m eager to earn the trust of our players, alumni, and fans while competing at the highest level.”
MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo speaking during the MSU basketball media day at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Michigan on Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Quinn Shell.
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MSU LAUNCHES $1 BILLION FUNDRAISING PUSH: FOR SPARTA
By Lucas Gentilia lgentilia@statenews.com
MSU athletics announced its plans for a $1 billion fundraising campaign set to affect “every student-athlete and every sport on our campus” Tuesday morning.
The money raised under this campaign is intended to renovate Spartan Stadium, Breslin Center, Munn Ice Arena and Jenison Fieldhouse, while also adding new construction to Munn and Jenison. MSU also plans to add new construction to baseball, softball and soccer facilities, including video boards and renovated concourses.
“Certainly, $1 billion is an aspirational goal. But Spartans have never backed down from a challenge,” Athletic Director J Batt
said. “Throughout history, Michigan State has been a leader in college athletics, and the time has come to lead once again. This is our chance to instill a greater vision for what we believe to be possible.”
Renovations to Spartan Stadium include a redesigned East Tower with added premium seating options. New lighting and a premium seating option will also be added to Breslin Center.
“This is the most ambitious initiative in Michigan State athletics history,” Batt said. “FOR SPARTA is our strategic answer to a rapidly evolving intercollegiate landscape. It will provide the resources and the infrastructure to positively impact the experience and drive competitive excellence for every student-athlete and every sport on our campus.”
The athletics department plans to
add a student-athlete dining facility attached to the Tom Izzo Football Building and Clara Bell Smith Center.
FOR SPARTA, as a part of the university’s Uncommon Will, Far Better World fundraising goal will last until 2032 and has already amassed over $250 million towards its billiondollar goal.
“FOR SPARTA sets a bold course for the future of Michigan State Athletics,” said MSU President Kevin M. Guskiewicz. “By investing in worldclass facilities and experiences for our student-athletes, we are positioning MSU to lead in an increasingly competitive landscape. This initiative
our athletics program and I look forward to seeing the impact it will have on Spartans today and for generations to come.”
New era begins as Pat Fitzgerald is introduced at Michigan State
By Lucas Gentilia lgentilia@statenews.com
On his 51st birthday, new head football coach Pat Fitzgerald was introduced to MSU before a crowd and media.
Amassing a 110-101 record at Northwestern over 17 seasons, Fitzgerald now aims to right the course of a program that has had only one winning season since 2019. He said he’s honored to be at the reins of MSU football.
“Michigan State has historically competed for Big 10 championships,” Fitzgerald said. “My family and I feel grateful for the opportunity to make sure we get back to that place. We’re going to build this for long-term success, and we need everyone to buy in, players and coaches, faculty, alumni and former players.”
Athletics Director J. Batt opened with remarks on Fitzgerald as the new leader of MSU football. Before introducing him, Batt thanked former class manner” in representing the university. Batt said Fitzgerald was box that makes a strong head coach.
From Orland Park, Illinois, Fitzgerald faces a fan base that has sold out Spartan Stadium on game day just once in the past two years.
MSU students have not seen a win against Michigan nor a bowl game since 2021. As opponents took
early leads against MSU this season, students left Spartan Stadium in droves, often not long after halftime.
The Spartans have not won a game a conference game at home since a 24-17 win against Purdue a year ago.
“Today marks the start of a new era of Michigan State football.
Spartan football has a proud history of national championships, Big Ten championships, Rose Bowl, CFP appearances, and much of that success is recent. More importantly, Spartan student athletes and coaches that built this program in the loyal, passionate fan base that builds Spartan Stadium each and every week.”
Now, Fitzgerald said, speaking
to MSU students, “number one, we need to win.”
“[Spartan Stadium] is a hostile, passionate environment, and we
that has the students saying ‘on Saturday, let’s go have a great party in Spartan Stadium,’” Fitzgerald said. “That 12th person is going to be the student body, obviously, our other fans too, but especially the student body. You’re the core of the fanbase. You’re the whole, you’re the heartbeat, and we’re going to need you.”
MSU announced a new $1 billion fundraising campaign, FOR SPARTA, on Tuesday morning, aiming to renovate Spartan Stadium, the Breslin Center, Munn Ice Arena and more.
With the rise of NIL and the transfer portal in college football, Fitzgerald said the resources committed by Athletics Director J. Batt and President Kevin Guskiewicz were a major factor in his decision to come to East Lansing.
According to a term sheet obtained by The State News, Fitzgerald will earn
with his compensation increasing each year through 2030. The deal includes a $4 million base salary and rising supplemental pay that of the contract.
“What jumps out so much is the pride and the people and the commitment and the resources to compete at the highest level,” Fitzgerald said.
Sunday afternoon and Fitzgerald was hired just over 24 hours later. Batt declined to comment on when MSU started to pursue Fitzgerald, nor when Fitzgerald accepted his offer.
“Decisions to make a coaching change are certainly done in full alignment with the President and the Board of Trustees,” Batt said. “I would say that we have the opportunity to visit with the Board of Trustees and then go along and move forward with that change.”
Fitzgerald, with nearly 20 years of Big Ten experience, said there was no need to explain his motivation to build a winning program.
The early signing period for the 2026 recruiting class opens on Dec. 3, two days after the hiring of Fitzgerald. Since he got the call from Batt telling him he’d be the new head coach, Fitzgerald said he has been calling recruits until 11:30 p.m. to make sure they come to MSU.
As for resources and money needed to compete in modern college football, Fitzgerald has full confidence in the university and its top down “alignment.”
“From a resource standpoint, we talk and discuss at length, commitments and resources being at a championship level,” Fitzgerald said. “Specifically, as we move forward, I think we’ll be able to see those. I felt complete trust and going to be provided.”
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Michigan State University’s new football HC Pat Fitzgerald poses with MSU’s President, Kevin M. Guskiewicz and AD J Batts in the Tom Izzo football building in East Lansing, MI on Dec. 2, 2025. Photo by Cooper Schwartz.
PAT FITZGERALD’S JOURNEY TO BECOMING MSU’S 27TH FOOTBALL COACH
By Kaspar Haehnle khaehnle@statenews.com
What’s better than a Midwestern coach with outbursting passion, a keen defensive mind and loyalty that’s been tested?
Apparently not Jonathan Smith.
On Monday, Dec. 1 Michigan State University hired this Midwesterner as the football program’s new head coach. His name is Pat Fitzgerald, and he was announced to be the future of Spartan football only one day after Smith was
“This program is storied with a deep tradition of passionate fan base and a commitment to excellence that spans way beyond the football field,” Fitzgerald said in Tuesday’s introductory press conference. “My coaching philosophy is centered around being the best development program in the nation. We develop our young men as people, as students and as world class athletes. This will happen through a values based approach, and the two cornerstones of those are choices that we make every day: the choice of our attitude and the choice of our investment.”
THE ALL-AMERICAN LINEBACKER
What’s as good as a head coach who knows the game? A head coach who’s played it.
Fitzgerald was born Dec. 2, 1974, to Flo and Pat Fitzgerald Sr. in the village of Midlothian, Illinois. He attended Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park, Illinois, where he was a three-sport athlete, excelling in baseball, basketball and football. Of the three, his passion — and talent — was football, and by his senior year he had earned a scholarship to play at Northwestern University.
Arriving on Northwestern’s campus in the summer of 1993, Fitzgerald donned his purple and white jersey as a backup linebacker. He would have to wait his turn, and while he learned from the sidelines, he quickly earned a reputation for toughness and preparation. It wouldn’t take long for
In 1994, during his sophomore year, Fitzgerald became Northwestern’s starting linebacker and established himself as the Wildcats’ premier defensive leader. The following year — his junior season in 1995 — he broke with a Big Ten championship and a
Rose Bowl appearance. Fitzgerald missed the bowl game after breaking his left leg in the second-to-last regular-season game against Iowa. Despite the injury, he led the Big Ten in tackles and won the Nagurski Trophy, the Bednarik Award, Big Ten Defensive
team All-America honors.
Fitzgerald would win the same accolades again in 1996. The senior captain and the anchor to one of the conference’s best defenses would help Northwestern repeat as Big Ten Champions, this time with a 9-3 record.
“To be a Big Ten player, to be a player that’s been in Spartan Stadium with a neckroll on, to beat Michigan multiple times with a neckroll on, this goes a long way back for me personally,” Fitzgerald said. “I’m a Big Ten guy, and to be here with the history, the tradition, the passionate fanbase, the great young men that have come here before us and the great young men that I’m going to have the privilege to coach, I just can’t wait to get started.”
Fitzgerald would go down as one of the most decorated college football defensive players of all time and has since been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. In the 1997 NFL draft, Fitzgerald would go undrafted and chose to sign a contract with the Dallas Cowboys. Two weeks later, he was cut.
FROM WILDCAT LINEBACKER TO HEAD COACH
As a coach, Fitzgerald is known for his intense nature — the type of coach that wears short sleeve shirts even when the temperature touches freezing. He is also known for his defensive mind, something that he’s undoubtedly learned over his playing career.
“He’s a passionate winner,” athletic director J Batt said during Tuesday’s introductory press conference. “He understands the Big Ten and college football here in the Midwest. We have a shared vision for building championships and returning this program to a sweet level of success. We are fully committed to providing the resources and infrastructure required to compete at the highest level.”
Fitzgerald’s coaching career started only a few months after being cut by the Dallas Cowboys. In 1998, the young Fitzgerald would be hired by Maryland as a defensive graduate
assistant. He would then bounce around to Colorado and Idaho in similar, smaller roles before being hired by his alma mater as a defensive backs coach in 2001. Little was he aware, he would stay at Northwestern for the next 22 years.
The reason for this extended stay was not just because of Fitzgerald’s loyalty to the Northwestern program, but also because of his promotion to Wildcat head coach in 2006 — which arrived sooner than expected, due to the sudden death of former Northwestern head coach Randy Walker.
Northwestern’s hiring of Fitzgerald made him the youngest head coach in college football at the time, and the youngest head coach in Big Ten history, a record that still stands today. At the time of his hiring, he was 31. For 17 years, Fitzgerald and his Northwestern teams experienced
seasons, the Wildcats went 10-14. Over the next four years, they improved, winning 30 games and making four straight bowl appearances — though they lost all four. During this stretch, in early 2011, Fitzgerald declined an opportunity to interview for the headcoaching vacancy at the University of Michigan, further demonstrating his loyalty to the program.
In Fitzgerald’s seventh season — two years after declining Michigan’s interview offer — he would end Northwestern’s 64-year bowl game victory drought when his 10-3 Wildcat team defeated Mississippi State 34-20 in the Gator Bowl.
Yet it was the latter half of Fitzgerald’s coaching career that brought the most success. In 2015 — his 10th season as head coach —
later, the Wildcats again went 10-3, capped by a Music City Bowl victory. In 2018, Northwestern marched to the Big Ten Championship Game after posting an 8-1 conference record, though it lost 45-24 to No. 6 Ohio State. That same year, Fitzgerald was named Big Ten Coach of the Year.
Similarly, in the Covid-altered 2020 season, Northwestern again rode to the Big Ten Championship where it again lost to No. 3 Ohio State. Following the Big Ten Championship loss, Northwestern beat Auburn in the Year’s bowl appearance since 1997.
During Fitzgerald’s 17-year tenure
at Northwestern, he compiled a 110101 overall record and a 65-76 mark in Big Ten play. He led the Wildcats to
made two appearances in the Big Ten Championship Game. For a program with Northwestern’s history, those results were far from poor; a look at the team’s year-to-year records shows seasons that ranged from outstanding to solid to outright disastrous. The low point of Fitzgerald’s tenure came after Northwestern’s 2020 Big Ten Championship appearance, when the Wildcats went 4-20 over the next two seasons — the worst two-year stretch of his career.
“My coaching philosophy is centered around being the best development program in the nation.”
FITZGERALD’S BREAKUP
Is blood thicker than water, or is the blood of the covenant thicker than the water of the womb? For Northwestern, neither proved true. On July 10, 2023, Northwestern University announced long-standing head coach to the curb. But the termination wasn’t about wins or losses — it stemmed from a scandal, one that would take nearly two years to resolve.
broke when Northwestern University released a statement concerning Fitzgerald and his termination from the football program. It stated that
and prevent significant hazing in the football program” and discussed in detail how “eleven current or former football student-athletes acknowledged that hazing has been
ongoing within the football program” while explaining that Fitzgerald was not aware of such instances.
Following Fitzgerald’s termination from the program, he filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Northwestern University in Oct. 2023 claiming that there were “multiple breaches of contract… defamation, and other extremely harmful tortious conduct.” Fitzgerald sought $130 million in compensatory and punitive damages. The lawsuit was recently settled by both parties in August 2025. Fitzgerald has since said he has felt vindicated by the settlement.
“You learn a lot through every experience that you have as a leader,” Fitzgerald said. “I absolutely love and adore the young men that I had the privilege to coach [at Northwestern] through those 17 great years. To come out fully exonerated and to see the statement that [Northwestern] made and to see the settlement that we came to an agreement with, I just feel 100% vindicated.”
A FUTURE OF GREEN AND WHITE POLOS, VESTS AND QUARTERZIPS
It’s hard to win at Northwestern — the university is known more for its academics than its football. That’s what makes Fitzgerald’s 110 victories, 10 bowl appearances and two Big Ten Championship bids worthy of a second chance — worthy of Michigan State. Now dressed in green and white, with the aim of delivering wins to Spartan fans, Fitzgerald takes over as the 27th head coach in Michigan State history.
There will be a lot of things against him: not coaching college football in three years, not having any immediate players or coaches to bring over, coaching in a new era of college football, attempting to rescue a drowning football program.
At the same time, there will be a lot of things going for him: having a program that will invest in what is asked, having top-notch facilities, having supportive yet eager fans. Now, the only question is how quickly Fitzgerald can lead Michigan State back to relevance.
“As I look around the landscape and we see some non-traditional powers that are playing for conference championships or maybe in the playoff conversation, you better believe Michigan State should be in that conversation,” Fitzgerald said. “And that’s my job, and that’s why I’m here.”
Pat Fitzgerald New Head Football Coach
Photo by Cooper Schwartz.
INSIDE PAT FITZGERALD’S $30 MILLION CONTRACT AND INCENTIVES
By Kaspar Haehnle khaehnle@statenews.com
Win and get paid.
That is essentially what Pat Fitzgerald’s contract spells out.
The new Michigan State football head coach who was hired Monday million that will extend through Jan. obtained by The State News.
THE CONTRACT AND WHAT IT MEANS
Fitzgerald’s annual base salary will
This is not accounting for supplemental his second year. The supplemental during the first three seasons of additional year tacked onto the deal. The additional years added would considering supplemental pay and remaining MSU contract through the
number does not include how much coaches. This number can also decrease if Smith takes a coaching job elsewhere.
contract also includes a buyout. If
contract. This means that if Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald’s contract also comes with winning the national championship of the MSU football team is eligible
membership at a local country of relocation expenses.
The maximum amount of money
amount of money Fitzgerald could his final year under contract (if the contract is not extended) is
There is also the possibility that Fitzgerald terminates the contract that he quits his position for a reason his reason is not limited to other
The contract would make Fitzgerald
national championship appearance. in Fitzgerald’s contract. If Fitzgerald
MSU receives record-breaking $401 million commitment
By Croix Green cgreen@statenews.com
World” campaign in support of the the largest philanthropic commitments in collegiate athletics history.
“We are deeply grateful for this strengthen our academic mission impact on generations of Spartans.” This is the largest single commitment in MSU’s history and
go to Spartan Ventures (NIL fund) and
The gift accelerates MSU’s push to compete nationally and positions the success. It also signals a clear message across college athletics: Michigan State now has the resources and ambition
directed to a new entity created its athletic programs amid a rapidly shifting college sports landscape.
will directly go to academics and will include the MSU Burgess Institute the Risk Management and Financial Insurance program in the Eli Broad Marching Band and Pep Bands and the Sparty Mascot Program.
that is truly unmatched.”
strangers to Spartan philanthropy.
and their impact extends well
Acrisure’s support of the Acrisure Amphitheater and multiple health
MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo praised the couple for their impact.
athlete opportunities.”
Though their gift is funded the Williamses’ connection to Michigan State runs deep. Although neither
his own bond with the Spartans back
relationship with Spartan Athletics
“I wish someone else was writing
a single dollar from Acrisure is going into this.”
northeast of Lansing. Gregg has been donation announced today.
changing donation that smashes the by former MSU basketball player and United Wholesale Mortgage
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MSU IS TAKING AN UNNECESSARY RISK WITH FITZGERALD
one scandal after another. From the Larry Nassar scandal to the allegations against former football head coach Mel
only now beginning to heal.
The decision to hire a head football coach whose name is attached to a
coereced sexual acts at Northwestern carries weight for the MSU community. And it’s for this reason we hesitate to greet him with the same fanfare that Fitzgerald’s record speaks for itself
games. But his poor handling of hazing within the football program makes us wonder if MSU is taking too big of a risk. While Fitzgerald settled a lawsuit related to the hazing and it was otherwise found that he still responsible for his team and
coaching staff at the time.
Guskiewicz that the community should “trust” in their decision and
Between mishandling of Title IX cases (OIE) and the ongoing litigation with transparency is at the forefront of institutional decision making.
While it’s understandable that the football program is searching for a real question is whether a few wins is worth the baggage that Fitzgerald
there is no guarantee that Fitzgerald’s tenure at MSU will remain untroubled.
Fitzgerald has also only offered broad assurances about how he would to bring “proprietary” safeguards to his next job and promised to be “relentless in making sure our guys are about education on “all the social issues that
has not explained what that plan directly knew) and concluded his
So we ask MSU: Why take the risk? Fitzgerald suggests that his number one goal is to transform MSU into a at a point where we need to be sure that MSU can’t weather yet another black mark to its name.
The State News Editorial Board. It is
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