Michigan State is breaking in a new football coach and quarterback this year. The Spartans may benefit from how familiar the pivotal people in the program are with each other because they both were at Oregon State last season.
FILE - Michigan State football coach Jonathan Smith speaks during an introductory NCAA college football news conference Nov. 28, 2023, in East Lansing, Mich. Michigan State is breaking in a new football coach and quarterback this year. The Spartans may benefit from how familiar the pivotal people in the program are because they both were at Oregon State last season. Former Beavers coach Smith was hired in late November and quarterback Aidan Chiles joined him less than a month later.
Jonathan Smith, who led the Beavers for six seasons, was hired in late November and quarterback Aidan Chiles joined him less than a month later.AP All-Pac 12 The trio of former Beavers have helped coaches teach terminology and plays to teammates at Michigan State. Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller seemed to point the program in the right direction by hiring Smith before another Power Five school did.Smith was 8-4 last season at Oregon State and won 10 games the previous year, when he shared Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors. The season before the former quarterback went back to his alma mater, the Beavers had only one non-conference victory and went winless in the Pac-12.
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