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Michigan State football: Five story lines for Spartans as preseason camp nears

Everything is headed in the right direction.

Players and coaches are on campus, workouts have begun and footballs are sailing through the air.

Whether any of that continues — by the time preseason camp is officially set to begin in early August or by September when the regular season, albeit a shortened one, is supposed to begin — is anybody’s guess.

For now, though, Mel Tucker and his staff are at least getting a few hours a week with their team, hours the first-year coach and his assistants missed out on when spring practice as wiped out because of the COVID-19 pandemic.