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Michigan State football’s strength and conditioning staff will boost recruiting

By Connor Muldowney

STATE COLLEGE, PA - DECEMBER 12: A detailed view of a Nike branded football with a Michigan State Spartans logo on the sidelines during the second half of the game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Michigan State Spartans at Beaver Stadium on December 12, 2020 in State College, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)
STATE COLLEGE, PA - DECEMBER 12: A detailed view of a Nike branded football with a Michigan State Spartans logo on the sidelines during the second half of the game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Michigan State Spartans at Beaver Stadium on December 12, 2020 in State College, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images) /
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When young football recruits are looking at schools, there are a number of factors that go into making a commitment decision.

Do I trust the coaching staff? Can the coaching staff get me to the next level? Can I win a national title here or at least see success on the field? Are the facilities up to par? Will I be set up for life after football? Will I grow as a player and become the best athlete I can be? Will I get in the best shape of my life?

The first questions are extremely important and it seems like the Michigan State coaching staff is doing a solid job of selling the program despite only being in town for a season.

The last question is already being answered emphatically. Michigan State’s strength & conditioning staff has done a fantastic job with the roster, turning the Spartans into the Monstars basically overnight.

Jason Novak is one of the best S&C coaches in the country and was a home run hire for Mel Tucker. But there’s another hire that has flown under the radar and it is just as important: Amber Rinestine, the head dietitian for the team. Both of them have combined to make some of these players jacked in a short period of time.

Just look at what they’ve done with Keon Coleman in just a couple of months:

https://twitter.com/keoncoleman6/status/1419807116878041091?s=20

Coleman went from in-shape to chiseled and jacked in the span of a few months.

The same can be said for fellow freshman Kameron Allen who enrolled in the winter and looks like he went from borderline receiver to strong tight end body.

https://twitter.com/kamallen02/status/1419755627308519424?s=20

And then there’s this progression from Elijah Collins from June of 2020 to this July.

https://twitter.com/24foshow/status/1419743176970080263?s=20

It’s truly remarkable what a year in this S&C program and soaking in knowledge from Rinestine has done for these guys. If you’re a high school football player looking to grow on and off the field, you look at these pictures and are immediately drawn to East Lansing.

Michigan State football’s S&C program is a huge draw

Tucker hasn’t been all that shy about wanting his team to have plenty of size and he’s even said that in order to compete with the elites of college football, they need to recruit big.

What makes the strength and conditioning staff even more impressive is the fact that they’re turning Tucker’s big recruits into even bigger, stronger players. Novak and Rinestine have combined to create one of the most underrated coaching/dietitian duos in the country.

Tucker may be a heck of a recruiter, but these two are selling the program just as much.

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