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It is Tuesday, Swear July twenty third, twenty twenty four. Welcome to
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out a whole lot. And you know, getting into that live chat,
we see a lot of people already here. Obviously nobody beat the Man and
the legend Woody out in Hawaii. He's already see a lot of the fans.
What's going on, swerve stray Woody said as a lung pluck to get
on first, or it just because we get on three Folk two thirty and
he's five hours in front of us too, so I mean behind us behind
us, so he it's really early over there. He's getting on at eleven
o'clock or something, ten o'clock in the morning. You know what, Andy,
Whaty? You know what? I greatly applaged and respect and grateful for
your consistency as a fan, as a lord t look what he I appreciate
you, brother, oh man, we definitely appreciate Woody. And hey Raven,
I see you. What's up? We miss y'all too, We miss
you. Good evening, all the whole Spartan family that's in the chat right
now. Everybody swear Hey man, hey man, it's thirty eight days,
baby, I know you're talking. They get it, thirty three when they
get it, thirty three day days. Shray I'm gonna start doing a dance,
dray felt doing a dance in thirty three days, and then just pray
for the other thirty three days and hurry up it come because I'm ready,
baby. It's nothing else I want to watch on TV but football, damn
A know. Countdown to the Michigan State's kick off against Florida Atlantic at home
in Spartan Stadium on August thirtieth, seven pm. That's Friday night, y'all
we get used to the Friday night games of the year, so everybody's getting
excited for that. I'm definitely excited. Swhere he can't wait. I mean,
that's all he talks about is football. That's all we're gonna talk about
when the season comes. But in the meantime, swere, you know what
does thirty eight mean to you? Can you tell me what the most famous
thirty eight yard from a return in Michigan State history is, Shay, Come
on, a blind person can tell you that one, baby, say,
say that game gott to be the famous pont return. You know what I
mean? God, let me take you back straight real quick. I was
betting. I was in a sports by it was over. I walked out.
I was mad. I might have said, what game over? Man?
When I saw that black block punt and we scored, I got on
top of the I was at sports but I got on top of the table
ready to get kicked out because I got my money back. That was the
lighter man. Come on, man, they bade me from that sports bart,
but I ain't care because I got my money and we won, and
I talked so much to the whole game and everybody was pointing at me,
point beer on me all the time. I took it because I was talking
so much sugat. We was winning the bull bull. I took it.
But when we came back, man, they almost called the police. I
won't. Almost called the police on myself straight, So I know that answer.
Baby, I gotta be down in this. Man, we return that
bunt, show us what we got. Remember if we can bring back some
good memories for swerve here. Whoa, there's trouble with the staff. The
ball I was free. It's picked up by Michigan States Jalen watch Jackson and
these stores are the last player of the game. Unbelievable. Man, you
didn't see all that part because he was jumping around at the sports bar.
You know. I was already going towards the bathrooms. Figured that was already
mad. I just heard somebody saying, no, that can't happen. Now,
I'm telling you, man, it's graat. I told you almost call
the police on myself because I would. I acted the food man as you
should have, as a lot of Spartans should have. I mean, we
gotta have another one of those someday. I can't wait to be talking quite
an honest swarve man. Look calling all junior Spartans. That's eighth grade and
under. We got junior Spartans. Man, you gotta go and check this
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You get the same benefits, but you get an exclusive swag bag that
you know, just kind of ticket opportunities and invitation to spring. But this
is something for junior sparts to get the young folks into what it is to
be a Spartan. Andy, you got a groom the Spartan dogs. Baby,
how we can do well. We got to get the word out there.
Let's start them early. You know, if they start them Earlan,
they probably will will recruit them early. That's what it's all about. Try
to get them recruited early. That's right. Also in that same thing,
man, we gotta call all spirit leaders and cheerleaders because Spartan Spirit Summer Clinic
is going on August first, from three forty five to seven forty five and
Spartan Stadium one hundred and twenty five per participant. Swerve you, I don't
know. You can't go to that one. You were gonna watch it.
You're gonna watch them from far away. But the thing about it is from
I'm a fan of all cheerleaders. I just I just love cheerleaders. I
mean, I just I just love them because they full of spirit, They
full of energy. You know, imagine those cheer leaders out there in that
cold weather when it's raining. I see all that. Man, I'm just
a fan of chilead. I love cheerleaders, Hey, Ben, I love
love Chili. They motivate you, they pump you up, they got good,
good team spirit. Chilis are the best in my I love all Chilias.
Yeah. Man, look if you get here for that which is that
was perfect sword. You know you get there, you got a clear stadium
bag. That's what you're gonna get in the Spirit pack, Spirit Squad,
t shirt, pom Poms for Swerve lanyard and the Credential water bottle. And
they's getting them tickets ready for that Prayer View A and M game. So
you come to this event, You're coming to the praier view A and m
game. We might have to do something for that game. That's gonna be
a lot of young folks and cheerleaders. I mean, that might be a
really good game to go to if you you know, you know what I
mean. Swerve straight we go kick pay of view ass Oh yeah, we
went up to score about two hundred many Yeah. Man, Yeah, that's
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man swear them. On Sunday, we have to talk about what's going on
with one of our players, and we talked had them on the show.
With Marion Smith. There is a special fundraiser event going on at the I
Hop in Lavonia. Nick Marsh, Mama Tron will be there, Other Spartans
will be there, myself, you were working on that. Lots of people
coming and some special guests are gonna be there too. All proceeds are going
to go to Marion Smith's family whose mother, you know, Marian's mother's fighting
cancer. Has not been given a great proagnosis, but we were gonna support
that family in any way that we can't swear. Yeah, man, I
think it's one of those situations where when you talk about being part of the
Spartan dogs or the Spartan family or Spartan alumni, just being a fan and
someone's the need and if you're able to help those who we need, why
not help wherever you can and how you can. You know, so hopefully
it'll be a great turnout, you know, but whatever you can give would
be a blessing because you know, it's something they didn't have and it's something
that helped the situation. You know what I'm saying. You gotta also think
about that that young man man with them sillibins and the things that he got
to do and prepare for a season. I mean it just I mean,
thank god I don't have I didn't have to go through it, but man,
I could just imagine the weight that's on his shoulders. Man, you
know, so I'm praying for the kid in the situation. But those that
can help out, those that can support, you know, do it.
You know, it's not gonna kill You're not gonna hurt you. If anything,
you'll receive some more blessings from it. You know, without question.
You know the oldest of six from the family that that's gonna have to deal
with this as they go forward. And you know, obviously there's a go
fund me page to check. Our social media is out. Steve Smith,
We'll see you there for sure. Good to have you with us again as
always, brother, you know, and look, it's just a case great,
Yeah, it's great. Serious. If Steve show up, I bet
you Tim push up his shirt would be a small to a media all day
long, Smedy, that's what we call it. I'm glad you agreed to
it. You're right, I absolutely agree to that one hundred percent. We
know that Steve don't own anything that's like, actually, you know a two
ax went on that fourteen one four to two zero zero. Middle Belt Road
in Lavonia is the address for the I how Cal will be there. Thanks
for the fair of family, for stepping up for this remarkable event. And
you know, speaking about how here's a message from my friends right around the
corner, hot to too, too too. Something's just out of us like
the two by two by two at I have two eggs your way to bacon
strips and two buttermilk pancakes Monday through Friday, all for six dollars. That's
it, six dollars, all right, man. Look a lot of times
we bring on old players like you and I, we talk to them,
we bring on coaches, and we bring on current players. But every now
and then we are blessed with the ability to bring new I'm talking hot off
out the oven, players that haven't even stepped foot on campus quite yet.
Players. I'm talking about newly committed players like Justin Bell, who will join
this is Sparta right now. Justin Bell, what's up, big fella?
Are you? Are you? JD? How are you? He? He's
going through people at a rapid pace here, man, I mean, come
on, don't make fun of his voice because he's bigger than you. Hey,
he's your best friends, that's why, that's that's why I love him.
I love all my old linemans, Man, all my old linemans.
I love my old lineman's Google, just like I love him cheerleaders. I
love my old liners too. JP. How you doing, baby, I'm
doing good. I'm doing good man. Hey man, I saw your work.
I saw your work. I saw your video your workout. Man,
you got great feet, good pad level? Are you hips? You look
good? Man? I can't wait to see you with them? Pass on,
baby, I appreciate that. Man. Hey, justin talk about your
journey to First of all, you're playing at Dakota in McCall, Michigan,
right, So what got you involved in the game of football in the beginning.
It's kind of funny because I always thought during the start, I thought
I was always just uh. I always thought I was a basketball player to
start with. Obviously I didn't. I wasn't head, I didn't have the
size to like play offensive line, but I still played it because that's when
my dad played. So he always helped me, helped me out with that
stuff. So at like to middle school, off the high school, I
was always playing offensive line. And then it was just it was just a
matter of like we had one combine at our school where college coaches were coming
to watch, and I had a good workout and a bunch of coaches came
up to me and started talking to me, and I was like, I
think I could do something with this. And then the past year and a
half, I just devoted with like my work and like everything I do is
just getting better at football. And that's why I'm here today. Man,
that's one heck of a story. You know, you talk about a guy
who played basketball in the beginning and that was your first looking that's so your
body type had to change. I read somewhere where Man, I mean you
went from is that? How How light were you about eighteen months ago?
I say, like at the start of twenty twenty three, I was like
two ten? Damn what too ten? And what are you weighing today?
I weighed like two days ago, I was like three hundred. It was
like three or one. They be tell me, tell me and be honest,
tell me you eat collar green with neck bones in it? Come on,
dog. You tell me you eat no, you know you don't.
You don't eat call of green, you know, right, you gotta get
callar greens with neck bones in it. See, when you get the campus,
I'm gonna have Mama Hall cook you some collar green with neck bones in
it. And at three hundred three thirty five with seven the better, you're
gonna look mean and mean and being like a machine. What are you eating
to get from? You put on ninety one pounds? Man? How'd you
do that? It was just a matter of like my dad helped me out
with my diet. It was just a lot of chicken, a lot of
chicken and rice, just like balancing out my protein for my carbs. I
was really just trying to like track and like not eat bad weight and make
it, make it become fat and almostly become muscle. So it was mostly
just eating the right stuff and just adding everything I can and eating as much
as I can of good stuff. Man, So you could still move with
it coming off of that basketball cardio. I mean, how you're adjusting with
being three hundred pounds moving around? I'll see, I'd say, it's uh,
it's it's like it's my dad's always told me, like, everything you're
doing in basketball is gonna help you. So he's like, if you keep
working on basketball, it's gonna just it's gonna translate to football. So I
mean, it's always just it's always helped me out tremendously and that's why I'm
pretty good at the sport. So, Man, as we see here you
just throwing these kids around. I mean, is this little little league what
you play? Man? Amongst boys out here? Yep? You like the
right side of the line right now. It's just that's just where my coach
put me because they were the senior that was playing left tackle before me.
He was playing He played left tackle as a junior, so he just stayed
there. But I can play both. I've been training to play both.
So wherever I play in college, I'll be fine. You keep talking about
your dad now, So did your dad play? Yeah, he played at
Cincinnati and then he played arena football for like a couple of years, and
then he got brought up to the Packers for a year. Oh is that
right? Okay? And he played offensive line. Okay. Man, you
know from when I hear man you you had connections with one of those sparting
dogs too. You know when your uncle Dave's secura right old Dave, Dave
Dave classed in ninety six with me. I think they came in with me,
you think so, I know, I remember that. I'm god with
you? Said, yeah, I think we both got the same color.
Bear Man, hey Man, welcome to the show, Dave. A lot
of you this week. We're gonna see a lot of each other. Oh
yeah, for real, dog come But so what is it like having your
nephew man signed with your alma mater. Oh Man, It's like a dream
come true to me. Uh, like I put out there. You know,
I've been recruiting him since before he could walk. He just didn't know
it. You know, we've been we've been brainwashing him since he was a
toddler, and you know, uh, getting him up to Michigan State games,
whether it be football or basketball, and getting him on campus and you
know, dressing him in green and white since he was a baby. So
believe me, I did my part in this whole thing, and you know,
his whole, his whole damn life. I've been I've been steering him
towards Michigan State and showing him what it's all about and uh, you know,
I think that, uh, I think that we're lucky that we get
him to sign there, and I'm extremely happy for him and happy, you
know, to be able to go and watch him play over the next five
years. Oh man, that's a beautiful thing. I mean nothing like that.
I just talk about what it was like because I know you you were
on your way to Kansas for a visit and you got to call. What
was that call like when they called him say, you know, come on
up to the East Landson. It wasn't really call I was. I went
down for like, uh like count amplized workout. So I worked out with
coach em and then we were just talking for like two three hours and then
he offered me and then it was just and then I could just tell it
was different over there. So I had to make some some quick changes and
had to come to these lands in that weekend. What was it like when
you heard it's Dave, Dave? I know that had to be special.
Yeah, it was real special. And I knew that he was going up
for the workout, and you know, he had tried to make it work,
you know, one other time before that, and I knew that once
they were able to see him in person and work working with him hands on
that you know, he'd be able to show off what he can do.
And and you know, I was really hoping for the for the offer for
him. I was hoping that they could see what what I've seen in him
for you know, the past ten years of really getting him in shape and
getting him going with with football. So yeah, beyond words, I'm you
know, I I was kind of speechless when when he called me and told
me that they had offered him. And I was just hoping that, you
know, they could show him, show him enough things that to help him
sway his mind into committee to Michigan State. And I think that you know,
from what I hear of his visit and everything that uh this coaching staff
did to recruit him and and convince them not only him but his family that
you know, that was the right place for him. And when he came
back, he told me just it felt like home. And you know,
I feel blessed that he's able to go there, and uh, super happy
for him to have the opportunity to go and and prove himself. So yeah,
I was just excited beyond words. Oh man, that's a beautiful thing.
They do you show? Are you able to be in? Are you
able to get into three points? Stand? To even show JB? Any
kind of techniques? I know for me, For me, I can't because
CTE and then I I can't be my knee three knee surgery, and I
just can't. I just can't be in like a YouTube. I can't really
go out there and do my thing. But do you just talk? But
do you also show? No, show him still and listen. Justin's growing
up, Uh, you know, within three miles of me, my his
entire life, So he got to see me when I was younger and I
could actually still been. So yeah, I've I've I've helped coach and train
him throughout this whole process. And I'm sure that he'll tell you that it
wasn't always Uh, it wasn't always fun, and I was tough on him
and hard on him. But yeah, a couple of weeks ago, we
we got into a little hand fight here in my kitchen and uh, I
almost had to put him over the uh over the island. Damn right,
damn right, damn right. And JB, don't don't don't get beside yourself,
jab because he's going dog, we stick together, We'll be yours.
He's a fun dog. No your spun do sometimes you got to think that
your spun do's on ass sometimes. Right, and secured my dog, so
I got to help him and then we'll be all right in the end.
We all give each other, right, that's right. I'm glad that we
were in my house and I could say it's time to stop. So uh,
you know, yeah, because he's got some strength on him now,
so uh, don't let him fool you though. He's you know, he's
been playing football his whole life, and you know he's he might have been,
you know, only two ten, but you know, Justin's been been
training for this his whole life. And and really his body type is is
finally catching up because he hit a growth spurt here a couple of years back
and grew about four or five inches and now finally his body is catching up
to where how it was before. He's always been this kind of bigger kid
that uh has been strong, and then he kind of thinned out, and
you know, they thought he was going to stay that way, but now
his body's finally catching up to where where it was and where it should be.
So he's got great genetics. His dad is six eight and three twenty
eight, you know what I mean. He's uh, he's he's he's got
uh got a lot of big folks in his family. And you know he
can carry this weight and move around with it. So yeah, he's he's
been uh, he's been really improving, I would say over this past year
and getting used to the the uh the added weight and his body felling back
out. So just excited to see how he carries himself this year and this
season, no doubt about it. I'm gonna I see the great Tony Manders
checking in saying less and got before your time, justin, But that's a
dog, right. There was a beat there, you know what. Tony
kind of remind me when he was playing ourselves some clips. What's the dude
that was in and with the Dolphins and with the saying that the ammt in
Buffalo Bill? What's his name? Oh? Dolphins? In the Saints.
You you're talking about Kyle Turley. Yes, Kyle, he's better than some
bad bullet boy. Hey, there's a question for you, uh here justin
from Mike willis, what's your favorite Adam Sandler movie? That's my Uh,
that's my other uncle. He's watching that. He knows, he knows,
he knows the answer too. So what do you want happy more? That's
the one with the golf club, I mean with the hog stick. Yeah,
oh yes, indeed that's mine. To day. I knew we got
a lot in coming because I saw the way you were pancaking those guys.
I used to make those guys missed. You didn't have to do that with
me. But brother man, justin so, what when are you so you
have a season high school season? Still deal with right now? Correct?
So howse things going there? When do you guys get back and report the
camp and all that? Right now, we have speed camps. We have
speak camp Monday and Wednesday. So that's like that's an hour of weightlifting,
an hour of speeding agility, and then an hour of just football. So
we do that, uh, next week. The next week's the last week
of that, and then we start our hell week, which is conditioning,
and then we start fall camp after that. What kind of conditioning, man,
what's the hardest conditioning thing that you guys do? We actually do a
Michigan State test. It's we run gassers. So it's uh. So we
have like certain times and like the times are from Michigan State, so like
for alignement, I think we I'm pretty sure it's like eighteen seconds we have
do a gas or in the uh whatever he feels like. Sometimes it's sometimes
it's ten, sometimes it's twenty. It really depends on old No, hold
on, hold on. Eighteen second. That's a half gas. That's not
a whole gas, right, that's allow No, no whole gas. No
eighteen seconds. Come on, you ain't talking to somebody. Ain't never done
no gases. Brother, that's a half gas. They don't even do all
right, sideline sideline, the sideline back, that's what we do. So
we start on one sideline, go to the other, and then come back.
Right. That's a half gas, that's half yeah. Yeah, how
much you want him to run? Sad? Do you want him to run?
You want him to run full gassers? Yeah? Tell you. Now,
here's a news flash. They don't even do running tests anymore in college.
They don't know. I'll tell your coach that he told I mean,
it's true, it's true. You believe that. Remember that he said kill
us out there one time? One times and forties and all that. No,
No, you know what the worst Rember we used to have to go
to the President and run the hill. Yeah, run the hill, Yeah,
that long hill. To me, the worst one was at the at
the stadium when we ran the steep hills at the stadium. But from what
I hear, they have one of those hills at the in the weight room
now right, Yeah, they can do it right in the weight room every
day if they want to. Said, yes, that's crazy, man,
Hey not not not to have flashbacks anything like that. But do you all
remember our lockers? Come on, man, hey what about those? We
got the new, the new ones out the cages and the little regular had
remember that little regular. I'm gonna tell you quick story, JV. I
was a freshman and someone told me that we had to pack our stool.
So I'm trying to put my he was going to Nebraska. Somebody said,
ye man, you gotta you gotta pack your stool. And I come pick
my stool in the bag. And when I went to go ask snickerbocker,
Schniak say, nah, they got your rookie. No, you can't take
the damn stool you were trying to take it. Take it to the road
game. Man, Come on, man, I know a lot of those
disappeared when they did the remodel. Finally, the probably secure as basement right
now. Oh yeah I got one. I got mine. Yeah yeah,
one of those every day justin you get they're gonna have it all. Nice
seats in there, the air you put your shoulder pads, and those air
condition lockers that blow him clean and all that stuff. It's different. It's
a different world now we get all the luxuries. Bro, it's all.
It's all suburb living now, you know what I mean. We we was
over there with it. It was two projects and you know what I mean,
things like that. Now it's all suburb living. Chris Bell, Yeah,
I hated the Mount Test. That was the most. That was the
terrible ship ever, Like why why are we running a mile? That was
stupid? Yeah right yeah, A bunch of cu club football it is.
Oh man, what's this? I said a million times? Would have hated
it, but I would have had Ken Manny what oh okay, we would
have probably hated it, but if Ken Manny would But if would have had
Ken Manny when we were there, we would have won more than just two
Big ten titles. I'm just saying, I don't know. I don't care.
I think Kerry's saying if manny, I don't know, they would have
won more. I don't know what. I don't know what he's saying.
I couldn't follow that. How many two twenty five reps can you do?
Justin last time I did it, it was nine. Okay, that was
a while ago. So it might be you got long arms, man,
I mean how long? What is your wingspan? Dude? Eighty four inches?
Yeah, that's that's uh, that's seven feet man. So so you
got a dad that played, You got uncles around you that's played, So
you've got a lot of knowledge and experience. Man. You know, i'd
say to definitely lean on that. I know you're doing that, and sometimes
it gets tough to hear uncles and dads. You know, you want to
tune them out. You need to lean on them. What is your goals
for this season in high school? At the cover? Well, first of
all, in the championship, we have a one of our high school hasn't
won in a while, and I think we can definitely change that this year.
This could be like our best chance. So that's that's first thing for
me, and then there's like individual I just want to like have like no
like four sacks because I had won last year. I want to change that
to zero and no QB pressures on my part. And I also want to
make all states so this total domination. Man, you know, you know
you know how you start to do that to hit all your goals? How
one player at a time? Brother, you kind of sounded like repledge just
there, but that was smooth straight. I like that. I like that.
Whoa yeah, hey JB. I need you to add a couple of
pancakes to that too. Now we need to get we get it. We
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You know, because when you pancake and you lay on them, you
tell them you do that. You got a sister, Let me get your
system of me. Just think, you know, just lay on top of
me. You know, we need by at least five or six pancakes a
game. You know, I got you to that, maybe even more.
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you know, for your your your allowance if you do hit more than that
ten? Oh, come on, man, you gott to hook you up.
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Man, we got to bring on your man from Spartan's Illustrated. We're
bringing on none other than be moment. And you called, I call mowing.
What's up? B Mo? I muted? Be more. The more
I muted, I there we go, There we go. I had to
figure it out for a second. Yeah, what's going on? Fellas?
How are you guys? Man? You got the mood light going? Man,
what's up? You're in the dark. I mean it's kind of dark,
like there's no overhead light here in the hotel. It's you're like normally
in the hotel room, there's usually that overhead light. There's none of that
here. I got like a lamp right here. So the lighting situation is
all messed up. But but I'm here. What you're doing in the hotel?
Man? Down in Indianapolis for Big ten media Days, you've seen the
duck in the river. I saw pictures of it on social media. I
have not investigated it yet. We'll see if I have time to do so
tomorrow, but I do want to see it. That looks hilarious. Hey
be more. If I was there, I get to be be good and
I shoot that, man, I promise I'll bust a hold in that duck.
You shoot it? Yeah? Why not holding that dug? Man?
So what do you think next last year? Should we uh, maybe we
should pitch to a NSU that maybe we have like an inflatable sparty on the
river next year. Maybe what do you say we should? Everybody should do
it. Just flood the whole river with mascot. I mean all eighteen teams.
I think that'd be fun. Both we just painted the river green like
in Chicago. M hm, hey, look be more. Let's talk about
the new article that just came out. Man about that. Let me say
this correctly. The top thirty incoming incoming athletes that we're most excited about it
MSU incoming. I know people aren't going to hear that, but the top
thirty incoming athletes. Yeah, so uh, spartans illustrated. We put out
an article this morning. It was there was about like a half dozen of
us that helped on this that kind of came up with the list of thirty
athletes and that wrote some of some of the some of the blurbs about each
athlete. We have players from from football to men's basketball, all the way
to like men's tennis, women's soccer, gymnastics, volleyball, there's all sorts
of sports on there. So yeah, it's the thirty athletes we are most
exciting about, excited about coming into this season. I mean, like you
see, men's tennis should have another good team. They have two guys here
on this list. Obviously, football we have about a half dozen I believe
football, track and field. Meg He is the big one for women's soccer,
as you see there on the screen. She's a transfer from Providence,
so big goal scoring threat for women's soccer. Was a big addition for them.
So there's a bunch of athletes that everyone really needs to know heading into
the Michigan State sports season. So so talk about this. I'm looking at
the list as you're going, and you're scrolling through it right now, you
know where he's the first football player I think I saw twenty seventh, twenty
nine, we had Nikai Martinez CF transfer YEP, talk about him a little
bit, Yeah, absolutely, So he's transferred from Central Florida. He's a
defensive back, so he was a spring portal addition, so kind of maybe
went under the radar a little bit because I know Michigan State made a bunch
of spring transfer portal additions in that secondary with Ed Woods, Jeremiah Hughes,
and Nicki Martinez is probably one of the more notable ones of the bunch there.
I mean, he had put up decent numbers last season with UCF,
was a starter for them. He's probably gonna play safety for Michigan State,
but he's versatile as well, can play free safety, can play a little
bit at slot corner as well. So he's a versatile guy. But expect
him to see to see him mostly at safety. I would imagine this year
safety that's a position to need. You know, I have to losing Jade
Mngum obviously to the portal here anyway, and then you have guys like Dyaling
Tatum and Malik Spencer that'll hold things now and there right now as well,
So that'll be key to see how he does. Again, this is the
incoming, the best incoming. So we have Tanner Miller looks like for football
as well at number twenty seven. Yeah. Yeah, So when you talk
about incoming, this is kind of a combination of some are we have some
incoming freshmen on here and also some transfers kind of a mix of both,
So that's what we mean by incoming Tanner. Miller is a big addition for
the offensive line, the offensive line for Michigan State. Kind of the position
group. Me personally, I have probably the most questions about just a little
bit of death concerns just from my perspective, how I see as a little
bit of death concerns there. But Miller has positional versatility. Again, he
can play a little bit of guard, will probably play center for Michigan State,
I would imagine, But All Pac twelve guy was really really good at
Oregon State. So he was probably the biggest addition at offensive line this offseason.
So you know, he was raised on the College Football twenty twenty five.
Of him and Velly, we're the top athletic numbers. I think they
both had eighty sevens from Michigan State. So we're expecting a lot out of
him. Speaking of offensive line, b Moore, we've got Luke Newman.
Now you forgot about him here coming from Holy Cross. Yeah, absolutely,
we have Newman at twenty five, So right up there with Miller on the
offensive line. He's a spring or. He committed to Michigan State in the
winter, but didn't enroll until after spring practices, so we really haven't seen
much of him in the Michigan State uniform yet. We'll get our first taste
kind of at at fall camp here in a little bit. But Newman mainly
played at left tackle for Holy Cross, but I would imagine it's gonna shift
in the guard now at Michigan State. But again, positional versatility, it's
going to be important, especially at offensive line, which has some question marks.
So I'm excited to see Newman. It's coming back to his excuse me,
to his home state, so that's exciting for him. Yeah, Newman,
Big time edition as well. Man, We're gonna throw a curveball at
you beat more to see how you doing. Jay C. Shuler softball,
Yeah, softball player, excuse me, Yeah, she pitcher twenty three and
four. Obviously that's outstanding record for a pitcher, a really good the IRA
and also can swing the bat five twenty three average. I mean, that's
pretty dang good. If you're getting hits more than you're getting out's that you're
doing something right. Loving home run. So she has some power as well.
So I think she was the only softball player to make the list,
but so she's definitely one to watch out for right coming out of Illinois.
First player in Illinoid to be named first team All State in all four years
in the sports. So Illinois has got some good athletes where you know,
we gotta we gotta gotta tip your hat to her. They gotta they got
a few. But b more, do you have anybody on the hockey team,
because we was knocking on the door, we got anybody coming in on
the hockey team that could take us over the hump because I want my hockey
jersey and I want to wear when we win a championship. Absolutely, we
have two hockey guys on this list. The first one is at number twelve.
Michael DiAngelo decommitted from Arizona State. Yes, Arizona State has a hockey
program, which is pretty hard to believe, but they do. So he
decommitted from there, committed to Michigan State. I believe he's a defenseman.
If no, he excuse me, he's a forward. He played for the
USA National team development program, which is one of those top youth programs in
the country. They're training center is actually located in Plymouth, Michigan, So
that's kind of perfect. They're not too big of a transition for him from
going from Plymouth, Michigan to the East Lansing, so kind of knows the
area well. I do think he's going to be in the lineup this year,
probably not in the top line, but you'll probably see him, you
know, second third, maybe fourth line, fourth line forward there. So
I'm excited about him. Then another hockey guy, Let's see if I can
find him. I believe he is number six, Yes, number six,
So this was the guy, Vladislav Lukashevich. I had a practice at the
three times. Once I saw he committed, lukash I already mess it up.
We'll call him Vladislav but Russian Russia. Uh played in the USHL last
season and he's a defenseman. But uh, he was very productive offensively as
well. He had forty three points and fifty four games played as you see
there, So yeah, very productive on the offensive end despite being a defenseman.
He's kind of a replacement for for our team. Leftshanov, who got
drafted number two overall about the Chicago Blackhawks signed his entry level contracts, So
Levschanov's gone. Lukashaevi's kind of a replacement. Don't expect him to be,
uh, you know, the top defenseman on the team right away. He's
gonna need a little bit more developing, I would imagine, but you're definitely
gonna see him play a lot this season. So he's not the guy that
that that get into fights. I need. We need to get one of
those tough guys like me that get in those fights. That's all my job
is to do, is to fight soon as soon they blow with the goons.
Give me a little bit about ed Woods. Yeah, Edwards, I
think we have him at where did he go fifteen? Okay, yeah,
he's all the way up there. Yeah. He was another one of those
the spring transfer portal additions in the secondary, Edwards was so he put up
some really good stats. I mean, five tackles for lost, three forced
fumbles, one sack, one interception, ten pass breakups, so decent numbers
at Arizona State. Coming to Michigan State, he was sawt after by a
lot of a lot of power forward programs. So Michigan City, I thought
this was a really good land when they got him. And he had a
relationship with Demetro Spartan before the Michigan State corners back cornerbacks coach, So I
would expect Woods to probably play a lot outside cornerback this season. Yeah,
I think he's probably gonna start and we'll see how he looks. But Edwards
is probably probably the best portal edition in my opinion. In the secondary.
Wow, that's the a lot. I mean, Demitrius mart what can you
say about his ability to go out and find super high of talent the guys
and get him He's lancing. Yeah, I mean we talked about it already.
Men with ed Woods uh and Jeremiah Hughes uh getting Nikai Martinez. Obviously,
those were all spring portal editions. So Mark Martin really hit the portal
hard this past spring to get guys to to kind of add some depth and
even add some starting, some starting quality players as well. So Martin,
I think he's done an excellent job so far at getting talent on campus to
try and improve the secondary, which has been kind of a weak point for
Michigan State in the past few years. Man still sticking with the defensive side
of the ball. Number ten Jordan Turner. This is Swerve's best guy because
he's got the body the Swerve wanted to have. When he was a player
here. Yeah, I mean, what looked like Toz? He looked like
Toz. I just you know, coming from I just didn't looked like Toz.
What did you think about that? Tony looked like Tarzan Man. So
go ahead, be more, go ahead. Looks like a bodybuilder too.
I mean, the guy is just ripped. I mean, I mean,
recorded a lot of good numbers at Wisconsin, played thirty thirty career games there,
over one hundred and thirty tackles. We might need a bicep contest between
said and Jordan Turner. Come on, be more, let's straight note,
come on a contest. And he was ready for you. He had him
on the show not long ago. So yeah, he's a you know,
a downhill player. I mean, he looks definitely looks the part coming out
of Wisconsin. He's back home. He's the Farmington guys you said, so,
you know, excited to see what he looks like in the green and
white during the actual season when it comes up in just thirty eight days.
Be more. But you know, on the basketball side, you know,
let's let's talk a little basketball. You know, give us women's basketball and
a man's back. That's highlighted in this list. Yeah, we'll start with
women's number five on the list. Grace Van Sluton, women's basketball number five
on the list. Here, she's a transfer from Oregon, but she was
probably one of the biggest transfer port editions in the Big Ten this season.
I mean really, former McDonald's All American in high school. I mean she's
six foot three, so she's got the size. Average fifteen points, over
seven rebounds per game, started for every single game for Oregon, earned All
Pack twelve honors, So she really comes in with a lot of accolades.
Excited to see because Michigan said did lose some key players like d. D.
Hageman and a couple others, so they have a little bit to replace
for that women's basketball team. But Van Sluton should slot right and be among
probably one of the top players on the team. Wow, that's big time,
all right. So what about on the men's basketball side, Yeah,
there's a reason why we have Frankie Fiddler so high up. He's at number
two right now. Yeah, she's in Nebraska Omaha transfer. So performed really
really well at kind of a mid major level. Averaged over twenty points per
game, grib about six point point three rebounds per game as well. He's
very heavily recruited out of the transfer portal, and in a time where time
Is will really need to dip into that portal and kind of add to his
roster because he was losing a couple of key guys, including Tyson Walker.
I mean, Fiddler's gonna be huge, and shooting's excellent. He's doing good
in the moneyball. He's averaging a lot I think, like thirty nine points,
So I mean take that for what it's worth. Yeah, that's what
I want to ask. That's all I was reading. He averaged thirty nine
point two points in moneybawl. So he never passed the ball. That'd be
a good moment. I got a question. So, so yeah, I'm
hearing good new points out of what it's looking like on the basketball side.
Those swear you know, outside of moneyball, they're looking good. You know,
obviously number one on this list you got. Well, let's not forget
number three. Four. Let's go four, three and one. That's all
football now. So Jack Velling, Okay, let's talk about him. Yeah,
Jack Velling is I mean tight end obviously coming in from Oregon State final.
Jonathan Smith to East Lansing was one of three guys to do that,
alongside Tanner Miller and Aid Chiles, who will get to him a bit.
But Velling's probably one of the better tight ends in this conference now, uh
six foot five, two forty six excellent pass catcher, I mean excellent blocker
as well, so you can kind of multifaceted there. And he really thrives
in the system that uses multiple tight ends. That's like Lingering likes to run,
so Velling and he knows the system well because he spent time in Oregon
State obviously learning under Linger and learning under Jonathan Smith. So I like Velling,
I like his game. I think he's going to be, uh,
probably one of the more targeted guys on this Michigan State offense. I think
he's going to be one of the better players on this Michigan State offense.
So I'm excited to see what he does this year. Now, in the
Big Ten, most tight ends by any tight end in college football last year
at eight tied for number one, So yeah, really excited to see him
hook up with his quarterback from the court Vallis. But before we get to
him, we got another pass in Nick Marsh. Yeah, it was tough
to place kind of Marsh in here because a lot of these top guys are
guys and girls are transfers that we have in here. But Nick Marsh incoming
freshmen, really stood out in that spring game and throughout the spring practices as
well. I mean, people just glowing reviews about him, about his performances
and practices. Six foot three, too away already has the body to play
at the college level, to play at the Big ten level, So he's
got that down pat, He's got the size to do it. He's just
a great athlete as well. I mean we saw in the spring game making
that long touchdown catch. So I'm excited to see Marsh this year. He's
definitely gonna play, Like there's no doubt in my mind that he's going to
play, whether that be arter or whether that be you know, getting second
team reps and you'll get a target here and there. But but Marsh,
I'm excited. This is I'm excited for his career at Michigan State. He
might not be you know, in the spilight as much this year, but
his career at Michigan State he's got a super bright future. You know,
you know, why I respect that that kid because I think he has like
three sisters, right, four poor sisters, and you got to count the
mom. That's that being in the house with five women, be more five
women. I know he was so happy to go to college. He's always
back. But now I got a lot of respect for that kid. Man,
his mom did a hell of a job because by she raised five whoa,
yeah, she sure did. Man, speaking of them, he may
will be at the Lavonna ihop to help me. Mario Smith and his family,
River Rouge products gonna all be there. So this is a guy that's
going to be in the house and like last one, not least here on
this list. Number one eight in Childs. Yeah, I feel like this
was a pretty obvious number one. I feel like most people would have put
Childs at number one just because he's playing the most important position maybe in all
of sports, I mean quarterback position. He's sophomore, so still has a
whole future ahead of him. A couple of years in college, I would
imagine left, and he's got a ton of potential. Excellent throwing the football,
actually a true dual threat guy can use his legs a lot. So
in Michigan State really hasn't had a guy that's that that can use his legs
just as good as he can use his arms. So Childs is a true
dual threat in that fashion. So I'm excited to see. And he was
very accurate in his time at Oregon State, almost a sixty nine percent completion
percentage. So yeah, both fastts, his arm, his legs. I
think he's got a really bright future. Excited to see what he does this
season. One one heck of a list. I'm just wondering. There's a
couple, you know, baseball player, maybe got Parker Peacock, like what
happened to him? He's not on there. Of that Rochester Adams transferred from
Alabama baseball player, great quarterback in high school. I don't know, maybe
he didn't make the list. And also Matt Forbes, I don't know if
that guy, the tennis player, one of the best ones. He didn't
know we have two tennis guys on here. But now he was not on
the list. Yeah, well he he was just in. He was just
in Wimbledon, man, he was, and you're playing Wimbledon. I don't
know what's up. We'll give him others receiving vote pople More said, no,
hey, po boy, the actually because you ain't in and apples and
I know you're sneaking in there to getting all the good news. Uh.
The ratings came out, the rankings came out in the Big ten, and
I think they had the Michigan State out of eighteen how many teams in eighteen?
Yeah, I think they had us that sixteen or seventeen. I'm only
acting because I put the mortgage on the bed earlier, put a pull and
a half games, and I need to know if Tim Bimo let me know,
let me know. Yeah. Well, I don't put a ton of
stock in preseason polls. That's just me personally, just because there's so many
unknowns right with the transfer portal especially, there's so many newcomers to each team,
not just Michigan State, to a team like Indiana, a team like
you know, Minnesota. They have a ton of new pieces, So I
mean Mishkin's. Like I was looking at the rankings yesterday, between like twelve
and eighteen, I don't know how they put them in an order. It's
very difficult to kind of distinguish between a lot of those teams, like your
Michigan State's. You're Indiana's your produce. Your Minnesota is your Illinois. So
so we'll see how it pans out. But I would not put too much
stock into a preseason poll. And I mean, if this motivates them,
it could be a motivational tool that they use that say, hey we're ranked
sixteenth, We're not sixteenth, and they use as bulletin board here that that
could be your hope. Now that uh, you put that back, so
so be more right, right now, be more When the talker with Michigan
state name is mentioned, you mean to tell me were in the second pool
over there with the other ones at the Illinois now in the Northwestern you gotta
put us with those guys. We don't get mentioned with the big dogs over
there, the first nine. I want to swim in that. I want
to swim in the kiddy pool. They gotta win some games this year.
They gotta win some games this year. Thank you. You don't want to
swim in the kiddo Yeah, don't send me to the kiddy pool ship.
I want to stand in the big pool. I want to jump off the
big diving board with the big board, the big board. What about the
what about the river with the with the inflatable dot. We're gonna shoot that.
We're gonna shoot that duck, and then next year we're gonna paint the
river of Green. Hey, if I gotta go down there with myself and
do it, damn it? Right? How did they get that here?
Great matter? Put that in their luggage? Then somebody tried that. Hey,
that's that Nike money, man, Yeah, that's that Nike money.
Yeah. He probably came on his own jet, you know, oh,
man, his own seven forty seven. That's right, Gray does matter,
great matter, and so be more. Man. We appreciate you coming on
and talking about this. Man, it's always you know, look, we
gotta come down and do a full season breakdown to the minute. You know,
the season's fast approaching, thirty eight games away. You know, pretty
soon we're gonna be at Santa curbin thirty three games up, three three days
away. I'm sorry, yeh, So then we could, you know,
start smelling that that fall in the air, summer camps going on. I
like that, Marlon. I hope we win nine games. I like that.
That said is happy be too modern. I just hope we get fired.
We get fired. The party on me bowl elsibility man, we gotta
get there, gotta get there. No, man, appreciate it. Be
more, you know, don't be as strange as you aren't. But definitely
like this list. It's very in depth. Great work by you guys over
a Spartans Illustrated. Yeah, appreciate you guys for having me on you and
check it out Spartans Illustrated dot comments on the homepage. There absolutely next time
you get a hotel room, make sure the light it worked. I will,
I will. I had some natural light coming in, but it's gotten
real dark. Some went down that night. Hey, hey, have a
good go to go to, you know, Saint Elmo's man, have a
steak colltc to put it on his tab. Yeah, I'll send you,
yes, gotcha Yeah, entertainer entertain all right, be more appreciate you.
I have to take your guys down there, swear. Hey man, that
was a great show, jam packed show. You know, got a lot
of stuff covered there, justin Bell and Dave Sacora. Man, that's all
right, Yeah, it's good to see that. You know. They have
to have family, man, they have a family member to play where you
played and to be that close. He just stay there only three miles away.
So I don't know how much is surprised there was to be on the
show, but it was good to have both of them on the show.
But uh, you know that gotta be excited, man. You know David
say've been training and mold him and hey, now it's time to put pen
in the paper and get that next year and do your thing, baby all
day long. Let's do it. Look man, So I look, I'm
looking forward to what's gonna happen this season, but I'm really looking forward to
what's happening on Thursday. Said, give them a little teaser about what's going
on Thursday. Great matters Thursday. You got you got a guy that that
had to beat the odds man, and you know, a guy that wears
a number, a guy that's a champion, a guy that's just a warrior,
a literally a warrior. But you know, I can't wait, man,
because I've been a fan. You know, I was wasn't a fan
so much in college because during that time I was, you know, changing
pampas and doing my thing. But just to watch this guy over the last
you know, eight years, nine years, man, I just gravitated been
a fan and know that you know, he wear the Green and White.
He he's a spartan dog. So I can't wait to Thursday, man,
because I got twenty one question like fifty for who for the guy that we're
gonna have on Thursday straight? And who is that? No other than But
it's four times NBA Champion depends the player of the year. I know y'all
got a nickname for I know he tried to play football one time. It's
one spring. But hey, we got Draymon Green coming Thursday. Baby,
WHOA, Oh my goodness, you said who Draymond Green? Day? They
there it is, that's the name Day Day. We go see Day Day
on Thursday. I can't wait. Let's do it all right, Look for
Cedriving, that's a good one, right, that's a nice intro. We
need a better intro out of you on Thursday for him though. For Cedricving,
I'm Jason Straighthorn. This is part of MSU. Everybody, have a
good night, God bless go Green. Right,