What a huge weekend it is for Pat Fitzgerald and the Michigan State football program. Although the Spartans lost a couple of four-star official visitors, they added a couple, too.
One of them was a huge surprise and it puts Michigan State right back in the race for one of the top in-state recruits and a top-70 player nationally.
According to Allen Trieu, Michigan State is getting a surprise (at least for the fans) official visit from four-star athlete Gideon Gash who had been seemingly trending away from the Spartans over the past couple of months. Now he’s on campus this weekend to kick off the summer official visit schedule with Fitzgerald and the Spartans.
Gash is one of a handful of four-stars who will be on campus this weekend, joining Reinaldo Perez, Caleb Johnson, and Anthony Cartwright. There were supposed to be a few other four-star defensive linemen on campus over this first May 29 recruiting weekend, but the Spartans kind of fell off the radar for Marvin Nguetsop and Myles Smith — the latter just committed to Indiana.
Bringing in Gash more than makes up for those lost visits.
The four-star athlete is the younger brother of Spartan defensive back Caleb Gash and four-star 2026 signee Samson Gash who Fitzgerald won over on signing day. He projects as a defensive back at the collegiate level and he’s arguably the most talented of the three brothers.
The youngest Gash brother skyrocketed up the recruiting rankings this spring, going from the 200-range up to No. 70 nationally and he’s being pursued heavily by Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Alabama.
Pat Fitzgerald is winning a lot of MSU fans over
Scheduling a huge official visit weekend to kick off the summer and then adding a couple of surprise four-star visitors at the last minute has fans buying all the way in on Fitzgerald.
An argument could be made that this is the biggest official visit weekend in four years and this is before the new head coach has even won a game with the Spartans. Obviously recruiting at Michigan State should be far easier than recruiting at Northwestern, but I didn’t expect Fitzgerald to see this type of success in his first offseason before coaching a single game.
Just imagine the type of recruiting success he’s going to have once he starts making bowl games and pushing for playoff berths. The program could experience a second golden era post-2000.
Michigan State fans are pleased with the results so far. Long way to go, though.
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