The Michigan State Athletics Insider Podcast: A Michigan State podcast network
Oct 8, 2026 · 25 min · 21 segments
Join Michigan State Spartans on SI Beat Writer Jacob Cotsonika @jacobcotsonika for the latest from East Lansing from inside the facility on the Michigan State Spartans Insider Podcast. #MSU…
And as it stands right now, it is fair to say the football team is not doing very well.
What if they go out and beat Illinois soundly on Saturday? Okay, then it's a bit of a different discussion, but they've lost three games in a row.
Uh, only it and men's basketball are the only programs that can reliably turn a profit.
It's all about football and, uh, a big part of the discussion with football these days is how much money you have.
How much money are you spending on your roster? And it's always tough to figure out because coaches aren't, you know, screaming to the skies, at least publicly, like, "Hey, I, I have this much money.
Here's how much I am spending on this player." Like, they're not gonna broadcast that.
But, um, there, you know, there are estimations and the best complete thing that has come out, uh, recently was an article from The Athletic a couple weeks ago.
Uh, they gave themselves a range on each program, you know, a margin for error I guess you could say.
But their estimation was that Michigan State, uh, w- is spending this year between $21 and $25 million on their roster, which sounds about right to me.
That does seem about right I think for most people, uh, i- in the media circles, the mo- most of the local media here in East Lansing.
MSU's not in the bottom of the Big 10 necessarily But they're not in the top, not close to the top really.
And as it stands right now, it is fair to say the football team is not doing very well.
What if they go out and beat Illinois soundly on Saturday? Okay, then it's a bit of a different discussion, but they've lost three games in a row.
Uh, only it and men's basketball are the only programs that can reliably turn a profit.
It's all about football and, uh, a big part of the discussion with football these days is how much money you have.
How much money are you spending on your roster? And it's always tough to figure out because coaches aren't, you know, screaming to the skies, at least publicly, like, "Hey, I, I have this much money.
Here's how much I am spending on this player." Like, they're not gonna broadcast that.
But, um, there, you know, there are estimations and the best complete thing that has come out, uh, recently was an article from The Athletic a couple weeks ago.
Uh, they gave themselves a range on each program, you know, a margin for error I guess you could say.
But their estimation was that Michigan State, uh, w- is spending this year between $21 and $25 million on their roster, which sounds about right to me.
That does seem about right I think for most people, uh, i- in the media circles, the mo- most of the local media here in East Lansing.
MSU's not in the bottom of the Big 10 necessarily But they're not in the top, not close to the top really.
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