Michigan State coach Jonathan Smith Insider Podcast: Are CFB Rivalries Dying?
Michigan State football has a different looking schedule this year compared to last.
The Spartans won't be facing Ohio State or Oregon and will instead be taking UCLA and USC. They will also face Penn State after not having matched up with the Nittany Lions last season.
Annual rivalries -- at least the lesser significant ones -- are becoming a thing of the past. Does this mean somewhere down the road we won't be having annual meetings like in-state rivalries or iconic, longstanding traditions?
Our Aidan Champion discusses this on the latest edition of the Michigan State coach Jonathan Smith Insider Podcast.
Do want to mention, speaking of August, that we were going to kind of bring back :
You can watch the episode below addressed the media following the Spartans' 14th spring practice last month. Below is a partial transcript of his opening statement:
Smith: "Wrapped up practice 14 today. We will get some work done on Saturday. Little bit of scrimmage in, little bit of practice in, but really, feel good about the work that we've gotten done over these last five weeks.
"Guys stayed into it, continued to work. So, will kind of wrap things up Saturday. We will turn it into family day, and so a bunch of families come back, watch it a little bit and breaking bread together after practice. So, I think it's a great way for us to at least finish it kind of as a program.
"Two scrimmages, I haven't talked to you since the last one. Got a lot of work done over the course of 95 snaps there last Saturday. Defensively, as a whole, I felt pretty good. The tackling, the effort, making it hard on the defense; the offense picked it up toward the end in the red zone. But I feel pleased with kind of that second scrimmage.
"Gives a bunch of work for a lot of guys and evaluation and guys getting better and feel good there. It's a critical part; you think about spring practice, critical part in kind of transitioning to the program, guys improving, diving into summer, we're going to have a big-time summer and all of that, getting ready for August camp already with that.
"Do want to mention, speaking of August, that we were going to kind of bring back 'You can watch the episode below' event in August. Looking for August 21 to do that, leading into our first home game. I learned a little bit of some of the tradition of that in meeting our group. So, more to come on the exact details of that. But we were trying to bring that back in August on the 21st."
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