East Lansing – Things felt normal around the Michigan State football building on Thursday, and that alone qualifies as news.
OK, maybe things weren’t exactly back to the way they’ve always been. After all, nearly everyone in and around the practice field and inside the Duffy Daugherty football building were wearing masks, and interviews were done from a safe distance as the COVID-19 pandemic lingers.
But football was being played with a definitive plan for when games will begin, a far cry from a year ago when the Spartans had only a handful of practices before the Big Ten made the early decision to cancel the season, one they backtracked on later in the fall.