Ep. 1144: Hot Takes and Twitter Questions on Guskiewicz, Batt, Fears and MSU's wild world

About this episode

The hosts discuss listener questions and their takes on the recent events at Michigan State, including leadership changes and sports updates.

We dug into our takes and listener takes and answered your questions on the drama and happenings at Michigan State, on President Kevin Guskiewicz's untimely exit at MSU, the Board of Trustees (and what should be done about the Board), what it means for athletic director J Batt, on Jeremy Fears' return to MSU basketball for next season, on MSU football, the Tigers, Pistons, parenting, best bets and more.

People in this episode

Hosts: Graham Couch, Jason Knick

Topics covered

• Michigan State
• athletics
• basketball
• football
• listener questions
• drama
• parenting

Keywords

• Michigan State
• Guskiewicz
• J Batt
• Jeremy Fears
• basketball
• football
• Tigers
• Pistons
• parenting
• hot takes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Michigan State, Tigers, Pistons

More episodes of Couch and The Rube

• Ep. 1148: Twitter Questions, and Chris Vannini on college football, Brendan Sorsby and MSU · June 11, 2026 · 1h 58m
• Ep. 1147: Hot Take Monday: MSU football, basketball and the president; and the Brendan Sorsby ruling · June 8, 2026 · 1h 45m
• Ep. 1146: Chris Castellani on the Tigers; and Twitter questions on MSU basketball and football · June 3, 2026 · 1h 50m
• Ep. 1145: Hot Take Monday: MSU basketball, football and the BOT, and Hinch, Harris and the Tigers · June 1, 2026 · 1h 38m
• Ep. 1143: Twitter Question Friday: Jeremy Fears' future and MSU basketball, and Tigers' lost summer · May 22, 2026 · 1h 37m
• Ep. 1142: MSU basketball with or without Jeremy Fears; and Omari Sankofa on the Pistons' future · May 20, 2026 · 1h 3m