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Podcast: Early 2026 Michigan State Season Preview | Cover 3 Summer School
- Michigan State is transitioning to Nick Sheridan's modern spread, including tempo and RPO elements derived from the DeBoer offenses at Washington and Alabama.
- Personnel should make the first-year version more run-heavy and methodical, using repeated rushing attempts to create selective play-action and vertical shots.
- Alessio Milivojevic's on-time, low-variance style can keep the offense on schedule, although his limited rushing explosiveness may constrain some of the RPO menu.
- Receiver is the largest schematic constraint; the scheme can create openings, but the unit needs an unproven option such as Charles Taplin to emerge as a credible vertical threat.
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Divine to the Portal
- Player versatile but not elite; could fit rotation at another Big Ten program.
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