Pat Fitzgerald chuckled at the question. How exactly IS Northwestern preparing to face a Michigan State roster that looks nothing like it did a year ago?
“Yeah, we've had overturned a lot of stones, bud,” Fitzgerald said Monday. “We've had to go find a lot of tape on a lot of guys and different schools, just to kind of get a snapshot.”
Up to now, the Spartans have been a collage of college football players from around the country — 21 transfer players and 20 new freshmen, along with 19 others who have yet to play a snap for MSU, arriving in East Lansing to build coach Mel Tucker’s vision of what he wants his program to be.