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5 days ago | 
theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse
Mike Lang / Sarasota Herald-Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Jonathan Smith earned another commitment to his 2026 recruiting class, and this one may be his biggest win yet. Tyren Wortham is a 4-star wide receiver from Sarasota, FL, where he plays for Booker High School. This is a significant recruitment not just for his 4-star rating, but also the fact that he was previously committed to another program, Central Florida.
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1 week ago | 
theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse
State Journal Photo-USA TODAY NETWORK A couple months back, TOC attempted to begin a “Mailbag” series of articles. Apparently, y’all were not as excited about that idea as we were, and after two editions we ran out of questions in our inbox. But from time to time, we see a question in a comment section that we feel deserves a lengthy reply.
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1 week ago | 
theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse
Dale Young-Imagn Images Just when we were getting used to getting good news in the Michigan State athletic department, we get this. Kaleb Glenn, who just joined our basketball team this offseason via the transfer portal from Florida Atlantic, will not play this year. Glenn tore his patellar tendon. No word how the injury happened. He is expected to redshirt this season, so maybe we will see him in 2026-27. We were expecting to see him as the backup small forward behind Coen Carr.
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2 weeks ago | 
theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse
Jerome Miron-Imagn Images Certainly you have heard by now that universities will be allowed to pay their student-athletes directly now as a result of the House Settlement. I am going to oversimplify things here and ignore the fact that there are already legal challenges to the settlement (Title IX issues are getting a lot of the early attention), but each school will have a maximum of $20.5 million dollars that they can distribute to the players on their numerous teams as they see fit.
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2 weeks ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Oren Basse
Certainly you have heard by now that universities will be allowed to pay their student-athletes directly now as a result of the House Settlement. I am going to oversimplify things here and ignore the fact that there are already legal challenges to the settlement (Title IX issues are getting a lot of the early attention), but each school will have a maximum of $20.5 million dollars that they can distribute to the players on their numerous teams as they see fit.
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2 weeks ago | 
theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse
Kimberly P. Mitchell / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images East Lansing was the scene for a number of official visits this past weekend. In total, seven high school athletes were on campus to get a glimpse of life as a Spartan. Of those seven, three have given their commitment to Coach Smith and the MSU football program. All three are on the defensive side of the ball, all three are three-star recruits, and all three come from outside Big Ten territory, even in the traditional sense.
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3 weeks ago | 
theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse
Brett Davis-Imagn Images Okay, we have had a few days for the dust to settle. News broke on Sunday that MSU had found its new athletic director, and the reports were made official Monday morning. J Batt is leaving his post at Georgia Tech to come take over the athletic department at Michigan State. The search lasted exactly one month, from May 1 when Alan Haller was let go, to June 1 when the Batt reports came out.
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3 weeks ago | 
theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse
Robert Goddin-Imagn Images News from the MSU Athletic Department seems to be coming out fast so far this week. In addition to the news of our new Athletic Director, J Batt, the football team has also picked up a new name for the 2026 recruiting class. In a bit of a coup, Jonathan Smith has flipped the recruitment of Brayden Thomas from Iowa State to Michigan State. Thomas, a three-star safety from Lakewood, Ohio, had been committed to the Cyclones since February.
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3 weeks ago | 
theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse
Nick King/Lansing State Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK Michigan State has picked up the 15th and final member of its 2025-26 basketball roster. Safe to say that Associate Head Coach Doug Wojcik gets the credit for this recruitment. His son, Denham (pronounced “Denim”, not “Den Ham”), a recent Harvard graduate, is bringing his Ivy League diploma to East Lansing. Denham represents the fourth player to transfer to Michigan State this offseason, joining Trey Fort, Kaleb Glenn, and Divine Ugochukwu.
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1 month ago | 
theonlycolors.com | Oren Basse
Brett Davis-Imagn Images At 11:59 PM ET last night, the deadline passed for college players with eligibility remaining to remove their names from the NBA Draft pool. Sadly, Michigan State freshman Jase Richardson did not. What fleeting hope we had that he would return for his second year in East Lansing was officially dashed as the clock struck midnight. Jase started off his freshman season as a backup guard for Tom Izzo.
