Bill Murdie

Walled Lake Michigan.

[Bill Murdie @bill_murdie]

JETS WIN!! Jackson College is the #3 JUCO BASEBALL TEAM in Michigan! Next week: NJCAA Region XII in Ohio. #GoJets #WeTeam #MustachePower 🔥

[Bill Murdie @bill_murdie]

@codywhite_82 GREAT DAY CODY! 👊

[Michigan State Football @MSU_Football]

WHAT A CATCH 🤯 @codywhite_82

#LVvsLAC on CBS/Paramount+

[Field Yates @FieldYates]

One of the coolest stories early in the NFL season was Cody White today.

He got a game ball last week for his hustle on special teams, where he has played his biggest role in his career.

Today, he catches two TDs, including this go-ahead TD. Good stuff.

[Bill Murdie @bill_murdie]

@codywhite_82 Congrats Cody! Have another GREAT season! 🔥🔥🔥

[Barstool Spartans @BarstoolMSU]

Happy 10/17 to all those who celebrate 🥂

Somebody had trouble with the snap 10 years ago today 🤣

[This Day In Sports Clips @TDISportsClips]

September 18, 2010: Michigan State with a fake FG 29-yard TD pass on a play called “Little Giants” to beat Notre Dame 34-31 in overtime in East Lansing.

[Marcus Lemonis @marcuslemonis]

Dear @MayorOfLA,

I’m confident this is a mistake. Thanks for resolving and sending out new notice.

I’m sure @GavinNewsom agrees.

[Bill Murdie @bill_murdie]

@codywhite_82 Taking off! Great pics Cody! 👊

[Brit Hume @brithume]

Normally when a bill is defeated in Congress, whatever the bill covers is unchanged. Not so with the "Big Beautiful Bill." That's because under current law, the 2017 Trump tax cuts expire at the end of this year. The BBB keeps those cuts and voting against it means voting to bring about a huge tax increase.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Gavin Newsom says he didn't have a problem until Trump got involved. Both of these photos were taken before the president authorized the national guard to go protect our border patrol in California. Does this look like "no problem"?

Newsom and his stooge Karen Bass fomented and encouraged the riots, because their entire political movement exists for one purpose: to promote mass migration into our country. It is their reason for being. Democratic leadership has no solution for the economy, for prosperity, or for security. They use their power when they're in the majority to import millions of illegal immigrants and when they're in opposition they do everything possible to prevent deportations.

Under Newsom's leadership, medicaid was extended to all illegal immigrants in 2024. This means that he elected to take healthcare from impoverished and disabled Californians and give it to illegal aliens. And now, everything is President Trump's fault? Give me a break.

If you want to know why illegal aliens flocked to your state, stop accusing Donald Trump. Look in the mirror.

If you want to know why border patrol fear for their lives over enforcing the law, look in the mirror.

It was your policies that encouraged mass migration into California. Your policies that protected those migrants from common sense law enforcement. Your policies that offered massive welfare benefits to reward illegal immigrants. Your policies that allowed those illegal migrants (and their sympathizers) to assault our law enforcement. Your policies that allowed Los Angeles to turn into a war zone.

You sure as hell had a problem before President Trump came along.

The problem is YOU.

[Justin Spiro @DarkoStateNews]

In the 89-year history of the AP Poll, only 2 coaches have won a national championship at 2 different schools.

The first coached Michigan State for 5 seasons.

For years, he pleaded with university leaders to invest in the football program with upgrades for its dated, dilapidated facilities.

For years, they said no.

Finally fed up, he bolted south for the SEC.

One night before his introductory press conference, the coach sat on a chair in the corner of his Louisiana hotel room.

He realized he couldn’t do it.

He couldn’t leave Michigan State.

He couldn’t leave the campus he once described as “perfect, like a national park with a school in it.”

He couldn’t leave after his best season, with so much business left to finish.

The coach told his wife they were going home.

Still in his hotel room - just 12 hours away from his press conference - the coach called M. Peter McPherson.

He told the MSU president his heart was in East Lansing, and his job wasn’t finished.

He said he would find a way, with or without a new facility.

He was coming home, if they’d have him.

McPherson said “no, thank you”, and wished his former coach well in the SEC.

The next morning, Nick Saban was introduced as head coach of LSU.

His last MSU team (1999) finished 7th in the AP Poll, the school’s best finish in 33 years.

It was the program’s only appearance in the Poll from 1991-2007.

Saban would win 7 national titles.

……….

In December 2002, the second coach called MSU inquiring about their head coaching position.

The 36-year-old wunderkind was fresh off a miraculous 2-year turnaround at Bowling Green, but still relatively unknown on a national scale.

He wanted the MSU job, and was disappointed he had not been invited to interview.

He told friends there was a sleeping giant in East Lansing. He would win at a rate they hadn’t seen since the 60s.

He would walk from Ohio to sign the contract, if offered.

Eventually, a headhunter for MSU reached out.

“Sorry, we are only talking to Tier-1 coaches in this search. We might call you if the others fall through.”

MSU eventually hired John L. Smith, Tier-1 coach.

Urban Meyer, not a Tier-1 coach, ended up at Utah.

21 years and 3 national titles later, MSU got a second chance.

In 2023, Meyer had returned to broadcasting after a short, disastrous NFL stint.

He said he was done coaching forever, but something burned him inside.

He told friends he was disgusted the last line of his coaching bio would forever be his failure in Jacksonville.

Meyer’s intrigue with the MSU job from decades earlier remained, only affirmed by their ascension under Mark Dantonio. They had been his only foil at Ohio State, twice derailing perfect Buckeye seasons.

Meyer traveled to East Lansing, covertly meeting with MSU representatives to discuss their newly opened coaching position. It would be the first of several such discussions.

Sources vary on details, but agree on a few key points:

-Urban Meyer was highly interested, but not certain he’d return to coaching

-Urban Meyer laid out a general structure of what he would need to deliver a national title to East Lansing

-MSU AD Alan Haller did not want Urban Meyer, and bemoaned the dalliance

-The dalliance was prolonged, and serious

Talks suddenly cooled and MSU moved on, to Haller’s delight.

The school hired Oregon State’s Jonathan Smith, Haller’s #1 target in the search.

For the 2nd time in his career, Urban Meyer had expressed interest in the MSU job and been bypassed for a guy named John Smith.

Multiple sources believe former MSU AD Mark Hollis would have delivered Meyer to East Lansing.

No one can say for sure…

****

Only 2 coaches in history have won national titles at multiple schools.

MSU told the first “good riddance”.

And the second “no thanks”.

[Dave Bondy @DaveBondyTV]

🚨NEVER FORGET🚨 5 years ago today @GovWhitmer signed an executive order banning you from buying paint and gardening supplies. Don’t ever let this happen again.

[Michigan State Men's Basketball @MSU_Basketball]

ELITE SEQUENCE

[Bill Murdie @bill_murdie]

@RichardGrenell @MSU_Basketball Go White! 💚🤍

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

I still think about this moment a lot.

“Our patience is wearing thin.”

I don’t think I’ll ever forget it. That a president felt comfortable speaking that way to the people is not something I can think of ever happening before.

[Michigan State Men's Basketball @MSU_Basketball]

FEELIN’ SWEET

[Bill Murdie @bill_murdie]

@kristierust @RobertKennedyJr @DTW Nice! 👊

[James T. Yoder @JamesYoder]

Michigan basketball

[PGA Tour @PGATour]

Golf is a cruel roller-coaster.