The Spartan Shadows Podcast

Welcome back! On today’s episode, the boys are joined by Ashleigh and Steven Collier. Parents of freshman WR Braylon Collier. The Collier’s came on to discuss what life is like as D1 parents. We talk everything to the recruiting process and NIL, to Braylon’s high school career, to what they enjoy most about East Lansing. This was a really fun conversation and super interesting to hear the other si...

Welcome back! Chris, Emmett, and Zack are back with our next installment of breaking down the 2025 MSU Football Roster. Up next, the Offensive Line!! We will discuss who is on the roster, our thoughts regarding the rooms, and some expectations we have for the group as a whole and individual players. Check us out! Episode recorded on: Monday, August 25th, 2025 Have a question, email us at SpartanSh...

Welcome back! It’s game week! We kick off this week with our break down of Friday night’s kickoff against Western Michigan. Join us for thoughts on the roster, game predictions, and more! Stay for Emmett’s hot food takes. (Comment Steak if you know…) We appreciate everyone tuning in. There will be a new episode of the show every day leading up to Friday’s game, so enjoy the mass of football conten...

Welcome back! Chris, Emmett, and Zack are back with our next installment of breaking down the 2025 MSU Football Roster. Up next, the Linebackers! We will discuss who is on the roster, our thoughts regarding the rooms, and some expectations we have for the group as a whole and individual players. Check us out! Episode recorded on: Monday, August 18th, 2025 Have a question, email us at SpartanShadow...

Welcome back! Chris, Emmett, and Zack are back with our next installment of breaking down the 2025 MSU Football Roster. Up next, the Running Backs! We will discuss who is on the roster, our thoughts regarding the rooms, and some expectations we have for the group as a whole and individual players. Check us out! Episode recorded on: Sunday, August 10th, 2025 Have a question, email us at SpartanShad...

Welcome back! Today we have an insanely special guest on the show with the fellas. Former MSU Quarterback and current podcasting legend Brian Lewerke joins us to talk MSU Football. We are closing in on single digit days remaining until the football season and with Brian, we talk ball. Everything from highlights of his playing career, thoughts on the current team, and just football in general. This...

Welcome back! Chris, Emmett, and Zack are back with our next installment of breaking down the 2025 MSU Football Roster. Up next, the defensive line! We will discuss who is on the roster, our thoughts regarding the rooms, and some expectations we have for the group as a whole and individual players. Check us out! Episode recorded on: Thursday, August 14th, 2025 Have a question, email us at SpartanS...

Welcome back! Chris, Emmett, and Zack are back with our weekly episode of the podcast! Today's show covers a lot of news and notes from the past week. We have hockey landing a few commits for the future, basketball locking in some official visits, and then we end some football news from Spartans in the NFL and some current Spartans making some preseason watch lists! Check us out! Episode recor...

Welcome back! Chris, Emmett, and Zack are back with our next installment of breaking down the 2025 MSU Football Roster. Today’s focus is the pass catchers. We have the WR and TE groups in the spotlight. We will discuss who is on the roster, our thoughts regarding the rooms, and some expectations we have for the group as a whole and individual players. Check us out! Episode recorded on: Friday, Aug...

Welcome back! Chris, Emmett, and Zack are back with this past weeks news and notes in the world of MSU sports. We start out with some hockey news and commitments. Then we discuss basketball landing a commitment and locking in some official visits. We end with our thoughts of the first week of football camp and how the squad has looked so far. Check us out! Episode recorded on: Friday, August 1st,...

Welcome to our bonus episode! Today we start our 2025 Football Roster Previews. This week, we will break down the QB room and the Specialists. We talk who are the players on roster, what their outlook for the season is, and more. Check us out! Episode recorded: Thursday July 24th, 2025Have a question, email us at SpartanShadowsPodcast@gmail.comFollow us on our socials! Facebook: https://www.facebo...

Welcome back, everyone! On today's episode, Emmett is back and the boys break down the Spartan news that broke over the past two weeks. We start with some basketball scheduling notes and recruiting updates. After that we break down MSU Hockey's non-conference schedule release and the commitment of big time prospect Porter Martone. Then we will wrap everything up with some football news regarding b...

Welcome back! The guys are joined by special guest Connor Muldowney this week. Together, the four of us talk MSU football recruiting, CFB 26 Toughest Places to Play, Jase Richardson’s NBA draft moment, and then answer a couple of mailbag questions. Check out all the fun. We really appreciate Connor for joining us again. Check out all of his work on Spartan Avenue and Spartan Shadows. Links to both...

Welcome back! Zack and Chris are back after the holiday break to recap all things breaking news for MSU sports since we last recorded. We have a new football commit, some breaking baseball news, a basketball update, and some unfortunate hockey news all to cover. Come join the fun! Episode recorded on: Sunday July 13th, 2025. timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 01:39 - Football: Chris Addison commits 07:31 - J...

Welcome back! The fellas are here to break down another big week for Jonathan Smith and staff on the recruiting trail. We also talk football updates, some new news from this week in basketball, and then end with some hockey updates. Join us for all the fun! Episode recorded on: Saturday June 21st, 2025. timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 01:37 - Recruiting heater continues 12:11 - This weekend’s official vis...

Welcome back! The boys are back with another episode. This time we talk MSU Football being on a heater on the recruiting trail. Coach Smith and company have really turned up a notch in landing commitments. We discuss who has pledged their services since our last episode. After that, some hockey, basketball, and other news to share is discussed as well! Tune in! Episode recorded on: Friday, June 13...

Chris, Zack, and Emmett drop in to discuss Zack’s thoughts on MSU officially hiring J Batt as its next Athletic Director. We give our thoughts on this introductory press conference as well. After that we have some football news, recruiting news, and hockey info to discuss. Tune in! Episode recorded on: Thursday, June 5th, 2025. Sorry for the sound and audio/technical issues! timecodes: 0:00 - Intr...

*** EMERGENCY PODCAST TIME! *** Chris and Emmett drop in to discuss the breaking news of the day. MSU officially hires J Batt as its next Athletic Director. We give our thoughts on the hire and break down his career so far. After that we discuss Darien Harris getting hired by the Giants in the NFL. Then we close with the other big news of the day, MSU football landing its first defensive commit of...

Welcome back, everyone! Chris, Emmett, and Zack are back to discuss this past week’s updates including football scheduling news, CFB26 video game updates, some basketball, hockey, and baseball talk, and more! Tune in for all the fun! ** Programming note, this episode was recorded Thursday night. Sunday’s breaking AD news will be addressed in an emergency podcast coming later Sunday evening. ** tim...

Welcome back everyone! Chris and Emmett are back with the news updates from this past week! We talk football recruiting updates, basketball landing a new commitment, and hockey and baseball updates! Tune in for all the fun! We apologize for the audio sounding a little different. Had a technical issue that will be fixed for next week!timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 01:53 - MSU Football 1st game on a Friday...

Welcome back everyone! In today’s episode, Chris and Emmett are back to discuss the news and notes of MSU athletics over the last few weeks. We talk the latest in the AD search, updates from football and basketball, and then some other cook pieces of news regarding other MSU sports. We end with a fan question from a few weeks ago. Check us out!timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 1:35 - AD search updates 2:35...

Welcome back! Zack is back and we wanted to have him share his thoughts regarding the Alan Haller firing and state of athletics as a whole. After that, the three of us share some updated news that dropped over the weekend that we thought everyone would be interested in. We talk Jonathan Smith being on the potential hot seat, football recruiting, some basketball info, and Isaac Howard news as well!...

Welcome back! On today’s episode, Chris and Emmett are here to discuss the big news of the day; MSU AD Alan Haller being relieved of his duties. We have our reactions, what it means for MSU, and why this happened all breaking down. After that, we talk a little football news, hockey news, and basketball schedule release. Join us for the fun!timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 0:22 - Alan Haller fired and discu...

Emergency Podcast! Chris and Emmett are back for the 2nd episode of the day! This one a quick hitter to update MSU Football’s three newest portal commitments. After that we give you all an update on more former Spartans getting their NFL shots. Then we close with some updates with current MSU Football class of 2026 commit Kayd Coffman from today’s Under Armour camp in Ohio. timecodes: 0:00 - Intro...

Welcome everyone! Today, Chris and Emmett are back to recap which Spartans/Former Spartans were drafted and signed by NFL teams this past weekend. We recap all of those signings and then move to post spring practice portal/recruiting talk. Joining us to break all that down is On3 recruiting expert for Spartan Mag, Kenny Jordan. Kenny does a great job with all his stuff for On3. Be sure to check hi...