After spending the past six years with Michigan State, Darius Snow has found a new home.
The legacy linebacker, who’s the nephew of Spartan legend Percy Snow and son of former MSU hoops star turned 13-year NBA veteran Eric Snow, has officially settled on his next program. The sixth-year senior was approved of a waiver for a seventh year, and he opted to spend that final season at a new program.
Now, he’s finally going to be contending for titles for the first time since 2021 and just the second time in his lengthy collegiate career as he committed to Steve Sarkisian and Texas on Thursday.
This commitment comes less than 48 hours after a visit to Austin was reported for the Michigan State linebacker transfer, and now he’s going to play his seventh and final season back in Austin, close to where he played his high school ball.
Although Snow probably wouldn’t have started this season, he would have been a solid depth piece for Pat Fitzgerald as well as a glue and gap-bridging culture guy.
Pat Fitzgerald is going to rebuild this defense
Although key culture guys like Snow, Jalen Thompson, and Alex VanSumeren are all gone, I have full confidence that Fitzgerald, Max Bullough, and Joe Rossi are going to turn Michigan State back into a defensive powerhouse like we saw during the Dantonio era.
Fitzgerald always had solid defenses at Northwestern and being a former All-American linebacker, that makes sense. Bullough is also a former Spartan captain and All-Big Ten linebacker and Rossi has a track record of leading some of the best defenses in the Big Ten during his time at Minnesota. This trio, along with guys like Winston DeLattiboudere II, Hank Poteat, and James Adams, is going to lead Michigan State back to the top of college football on that side of the ball.
It may not happen overnight, but we’re going to see a gradual change in East Lansing on the defensive side of the ball.
Ever since Dantonio retired in the winter of 2020, Michigan State’s defense has been one of the worst in the Big Ten. The script needs to be flipped and I believe that Fitzgerald is the right guy to do it.
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