EAST LANSING – A wide hallway linking the Tom Izzo Football Building and Skandalaris Center showcases team and individual accomplishments.

Although it’s freshly renovated, the years listing Michigan State’s Big Ten championships stops at 2015. The program’s last first-round NFL draft pick remains offensive lineman Jack Conklin in 2016 and the Spartans haven’t reached a bowl game since 2021.

Updating those numbers is the task of second-year coach Jonathan Smith, whose new boss didn’t duck the obvious during his introductory press conference.

“It’s imperative that we support all of our sports but do not be confused, every athletics department competing at the highest level must be successful in football,” new athletic director J Batt said on Wednesday.

Football generates the cash to fund

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