‘Meet Coach Smith’ contest hints that Jonathan Smith won’t be fired anytime soon

Welcome to the Michigan State football season that never ends. Michigan State fans have been begging for the athletic department to part ways with Jonathan Smith amid a six-game losing streak with five of those losses by 10-plus points, but it doesn’t seem like that’s happening soon.

While it very well may happen by the end of the season, that’s just not soon enough for the ‘fire Smith’ crowd as he’s likely to lose 2-3 more games, minimum, in the final month as the Spartans sit at 3-6.

Smith’s team has looked lifeless for over a month now and Michigan State hasn’t won a game since taking Youngstown State down 1.5 months ago.

To make a bowl game for the first time since 2021, Michigan State would need to sweep the final three opponents of Penn State, Iowa, and Maryland. That’s not happening.

And with more big-time programs entering the coaching search market recently (Auburn, LSU, Penn State, Florida), it feels like Michigan State is going to have to fight for scraps if it wants to hire an upgrade at head coach if it does part ways with Smith.

Anyone hoping for that news before the end of the regular season may as well just give it up seeing as the school just promoted a ‘Meet Coach Smith’ event.

Now I’m not sure who green-lit this contest considering 90 percent of Spartan fans want the head coach gone, but it has backfired on social media, as you could imagine. Fans have voiced their displeasure over the contest on X and Facebook, calling out the athletic department for even allowing something like this to happen.

Even if some fans are still in Smith’s corner, there’s a non-zero chance that the fan who wins the contest will spend his time berating the head coach and telling him it’s time to go.

But hey, if you want to meet Smith before he is let go, you now have your chance.

Weird move by the athletic department, but I guess this is what Farm Bureau Insurance wants.