Bo Schembechler is an avatar of the glory years of college football. He’s immortalized with a statue outside the football building that bears his name at the University of Michigan.

But the old-school coach never led his team to a national championship – so these days, he’d probably be on the verge of getting fired.

“If you can’t win, you’re going out,” said Matt Wenzel, who covers Michigan State University football for MLive. “I mean, you can be boring if you win – you can be Bill Belichick. But if you lose and you don’t have that fire, the fans won’t get behind you.”

Wenzel started on the beat in 2017, and the intervening eight years have been a whirlwind: players cashing in on NIL (name, image, likeness) deals; a transfer portal that turns rosters over annually; and coaching contract

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