Lot of blame on this thread for why we are where we are but it really all goes back to Cohen and whoever thought that was a good idea. Byrne and Strickland had fund raising, game day experience, branding, and everything else going in the right direction. Cohen comes in and all that goes to shit almost overnight. We lose Vic (for whatever the reason....a good program would've swept that under the rug. Mind you I didn't like Vic but he won). He hires Cannizzaro, who had he done a tenth of the research he should've had so many red flags it's almost unjustifiable. Then he blows the Schloss hire and we get Leno because cohen can't keep his mouth shut. There's JoMo who on paper looks good but one look at the dude and you gotta know it's not going to work. He screws up that firing by waiting until after the bowl game (the writing was already on the wall guys). Then we bring in Leach who, despite being an icon, is really not a fit for MSU and if we're being objective doesn't have the best track record for leaving schools in winning situations. Oh yeah, and he 17'd us on NIL.

Cohen finally decided to leave, Leach dies and we hire our next coach without an AD. WTH?

I don't know maybe I just traced it all back to Keenum but I still say Cohen kills MSU athletics.