Pat Fitzgerald is getting set to be introduced as Michigan State’s next head coach on Tuesday afternoon in East Lansing, and there seems to be palpable excitement about his hiring.
Fans have been cautiously optimistic even though Fitzgerald hasn’t coached a game since 2022, but when he was in his glory days at Northwestern, he was leading the program to new heights. He helped lead Northwestern to big things as a player in the 1990s, but also as a head coach, winning double-digit games multiple times and even making it to the Big Ten title game.