Phil Friend/Lansing State Journal
EAST LANSING -- The students came from everywhere, forming a wide, thick semi-circle, pressing against each other at least 10 deep. Maybe 1,000 of them were there, standing their toes, holding up their phones, chanting and cheering as they recorded.
If you were looking for a bit of light in the dark cloud that’s settled over a swath of Michigan State’s athletic program, here it was, hard by the Sparty Statue in the middle of campus on a cool, gray Thursday afternoon.