Michigan State is in the middle of its biggest recruiting weekend of the Pat Fitzgerald era and arguably the biggest since Mel Tucker was still running the show, but that doesn’t mean the Spartans are immune to bad news.
In fact, the Spartans have gotten a healthy helping of bad news on the recruiting trail over the past week. On Saturday afternoon, they got more.
Fitzgerald has done a really good job of recruiting following four futile seasons which resulted in zero bowl berths under two different head coaches and one interim. Selling that to top recruits isn’t easy, especially since Fitz has been out of coaching for a few years, but he’s making the most of the situation and he has five four-star recruits on campus this weekend.
Unfortunately, an in-state would-be visitor for June 5 just committed on his first trip to a Big 12 school. Three-star offensive lineman Drew Aagesen committed to Iowa State on Saturday afternoon.
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— Drew Aagesen (3🌟) 2027 (@DrewAagesen) May 30, 2026
Iowa State was able to get the first visit with Aagesen who’s a three-star lineman from Goodrich, Mich., and that was enough to convince him to commit on the spot. Iowa State’s Jimmy Rogers, a first-year head coach from Washington State, was able to steal a top Michigan State target right from the Spartans’ own backyard.
To make matters worse, Aagesen grew up a Michigan State fan and was supposed to be on campus next weekend for his official visit. That no longer looks to be the case.
Aagesen is the No. 1,123 recruit in the country on 247Sports and he’s the No. 21 recruit in the state of Michigan. This isn’t a massive loss, but it hurts to see a rising target commit elsewhere before visiting.
Pat Fitzgerald has gotten other bad news this week
I’ll preface this by saying that the last-minute additions of Deontay Malone and Gideon Gash make up for the bad news that I’m about to list.
The Spartans were supposed to have a handful of four-star defensive linemen on campus this weekend and it looked like Winston DeLattiboudere III was cooking, but four-star in-state edge rusher Myles Smith swapped his Michigan State visit for an Oklahoma trip and didn’t even make it to Norman, committing to Indiana this week.
Marvin Nguetsop, another four-star defensive lineman, also canceled his Michigan State visit and so did four-star Nehemiah Ombati who replaced his East Lansing trip with a visit to Missouri.
Three would-be four-star visitors canceled visits this weekend and another just committed to Iowa State before taking his scheduled trip to East Lansing.
We could use some good news stemming from this weekend’s visits.
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