EAST LANSING – Will Jonathan Smith be the Michigan State football coach next season? Or at this time next week?

He said he doesn’t know.

Amid an eight-game losing streak that is tied for the second-longest in program history, the second-year coach gave insight into his frustrations of a season gone awry and the limbo he and his staff are experiencing as the Spartans prepare for their finale against Maryland at Ford Field.

Asked if “anything has been communicated to you in black and white to you about the future?” Smith’s answer was sinple: “No.”

And does he feel confident he and his staff will get a third year?

“I think in this landscape of college football, what it is, that's always a solid question,” Smith said Monday, Nov. 24. “When you look across the country and the changes

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