Pat Fitzgerald keeping Chicago roots at Michigan State
Pat Fitzgerald and his Michigan State staff will continue recruiting Chicago much like Mark Dantonio used to.
East Lansing — There Alessio Milivojevic stood at a junior day event for Northwestern’s football team. Head coach Pat Fitzgerald came up to him and shook the Wheaton St. Francis quarterback’s hand.
Little did they know that handshake was the foreshadow of what was to come just a few wild years later. After Jonathan Smith’s staff flipped Milivojevic right before signing day in 2023, and after Smith’s firing ushered Fitzgerald back to the sidelines, now at Michigan State, in December , the two are at the forefront of Michigan State’s rebuild after four losing seasons. “It’s really crazy.
Really crazy,” Milivojevic said. A couple of Chicago guys, and that won’t change in the future at Michigan State, because Fitzgerald plans to recruit the area frequently alongside the other fertile grounds his mentor and Spartan icon, Mark Dantonio, used to harvest. “Developing players, developing a program, developing recruiting is all about relationships,” Fitzgerald said Feb.
4. “And I think it’s huge. It’s going to be an area, again, when we leave the state of Michigan, we’re going to be in Ohio.
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