Terms not announced yet. Northwestern is scheduled to play at MSU in 2026, the conference schedule dates haven’t been announced yet.
It’ll be interesting to see if he can recruit at the level MSU needs to be successful, at least he should have fewer restrictions on admissions.
I wonder if he’ll reach out to any of his former coaches at Northwestern?
Mike Nolan
Trib columnist Paul Sullivan kind of raked Fitz over the coals in his column, I don’t know if it’s available to non-subscribers.
Wow, definitely not a generous article. This seems like it was written by the guy from the Daily who went after Fitz using a disgruntled player’s accusations. Obviously the author doesn’t like Fitz, but journalism should be fact based which the profession seems to have lost.
The bias of various platforms is the fault of the platform, not those who are hired by that platform to produce content that is compatible with the political perspective of that platform.
IMHO, we are in a click-based media economy where truth is subjective, “facts” are fungible, and attention is the only measure of success. A landmark twitter study found the lies expanded 6 times faster and further through the twitter (now X) verse than the truths intended to correct those lies.
That’s why platforms have become broadcast vehicles targeting particular audiences with only the information that those audiences are interested in consuming.
Oliver Wendel Holmes’ concept was that in the marketplace of ideas, the truth of an idea is determined by its ability to gain acceptance in a free and open competition of thoughts.
But our current largely unregulated media environment is no longer a level playing field. Misinformation tramples truth because media consumers are more interested in information that reinforces their existing bias rather than information that challenges it.
Hopefully our J school is incubating new ideas that could for example focus on the rights of the listener to receive factual information rather than the current environment that only recognizes the largely unconstrained rights of the speaker.
Jeff
Well, it started back when Gary Barnett turned the Cat’s program around.
One of the former players, then a Sports Columnist was always carping on NU giving up on its cherished academic standards to allow a winning football team.
When I first came to Evanston, they wanted to replace the playing surface at then Dyche Stadium with Tartan Turf - at a cost of $100,000. I can remember a complaint from the academic side of the campus that the money should be spent elsewhere, but the AD went ahead, called 10 of the football donors and got the money. It turned out to be a great field for dOSU’s Griffin brothers to run up and down.
But there seems to be a continuing feeling among the Chicago Print Sports Media, including the Daily, that NU should be like U of Chicago, and cherish the losing tradition with the end result of giving up football.
Our little town in Delaware just won a State Championship in Football. You can’t imagine how exited almost everyone here is about that victory, and the lift its given the local High School, with the players deeply involved in helping even the elementary school kids get excited about their schools.
I’ll trade that enthusiasm for any negative thoughts about sports any day.
Go B1GCats
rsl
The IHSA playoffs in Illinois happened for 1A-4A the smallest divisions, but was cancelled and now rescheduled for the 5A-8A(7 out of 8 are suburban schools).
Resuming today with probably awful attendance and not being on broadcast TV https://www.ihsa.org/sports/football/state-series at least in Chicagoland.
My high school team made state, but a running back injury in the playoffs ended our run. Even though we were a large school in Kansas we weren’t a powerhouse in football.