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Jonathan Smith's reported replacement at Michigan State is 110-win Big Ten coach

Restoration of a once-storied football program may be coming back to the Michigan State Spartans in East Lansing.

Following an ugly tenure under now-former coach Jonathan Smith, who was relieved of his duties Sunday, the Spartans have reportedly zeroed in on their guy.

According to the Detroit Free Press's Graham Couc h, the Spartans intend to hire former Northwestern Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald. If contracts are finalized, it would lead Fitzgerald to a return to the Big Ten for the first time since his firing in the summer of 2023 for hazing within the Wildcats' football program.

Through an undisclosed settlement between the Wildcats and Fitzgerald, hazing did occur with

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