Sharp says JLS is safe regardless of MSU’s record
Some Michigan State fans have been very vocal in their belief that John L. Smith needs a certain record in 2006 to keep his job as MSU’s head football coach. Some say he needs a bowl game, some say eight wins, and others say nine wins. Drew Sharp from the Detroit Free Press says to ignore all of that talk. He reports that JLS’s job is safe no matter what record his team has at the end of the year, unless there are off the field issues at MSU this season.
He has received a blanket endorsement for continued mediocrity from the university hierarchy. MSU president Lou Anna Simon will forgive another flirtation with .500 football, provided there are no newspaper headlines trumpeting the off-the-field travails of Spartan football players.
The only way Smith loses his job this year would be a rash of embarrassing episodes that accelerated Bobby Williams’ ouster during the 2002 season.