Pat Fitzgerald takes playful switch portal jab at LSU’s Lane Kiffin

EAST LANSING – To say Pat Fitzgerald has an enormous character could be an understatement.

Michigan State’s new soccer coach has some huge jokes, too.

Fitzgerald twice took lighthearted jabs at lightning rod LSU coach Lane Kiffin throughout his debut radio present on Tuesday, Sept. 1.

The first got here when offensive lineman Conner Moore joined the printed with Fitzgerald, host Dalton Shetler and former MSU operating again Jehuu Caulcrick. Shetler listed a bunch of superlatives for Moore, a senior who performed a team-high 765 snaps final season for the Spartans and was fifth within the Big Ten with an 80.4 run blocking grade after arriving from Montana State.

“Should we keep going with showering with praise?” Shelter requested Fitzgerald.

“Yeah, go ahead, this is great,” the coach replied. “He’s staying, he’s not leaving. He just told us that.”

“There’s not a spring portal, I can’t leave,” chuckled Moore, who grew up close to Toledo as an MSU fan.

“Maybe Lane Kiffin will take him or something,” Fitzgerald shortly quipped via the laughter. “Is that too soon?”

Somewhat later throughout the broadcast, whereas discussing the present state of school athletics and the journey non-football applications have in entrance of them throughout a faculty yr, Fitzgerald talked about that, “There’s no way that you can be putting your volleyball team halfway across the country every other week or so on and so forth with those sports.”

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Shetler interjected that MSU beneath coach Kristen Kelsay on Tuesday afternoon swept LSU, 3-0, throughout the Big Ten/SEC Volleyball Challenge in Ann Arbor.

“Lane Kiffin wasn’t there, huh?” Fitzgerald dryly remarked, shortly including that it was his second joke about Kiffin throughout the present. More laughter ensued.

“He’s my friend, too,” Fitzgerald added. “I love you, brother.”

MSU kicks off Fitzgerald’s debut season towards Toledo on Friday night time at Spartan Stadium (8 p.m./FS1).

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