Xavier Booker Announces MSU Exodus

Earlier this afternoon, Xavier Booker announced he was entering his name in the transfer portal. Understandably, this is not coming as a surprise to many of us in Spartan Nation. That being said, I still feel obligated to share this brief story of how I knew this was going to happen. On Sunday, after the loss to Auburn went final, the MSU team went into their locker room and the door was shut for a 15-minute “cooling off” period. After that, there was a press conference featuring Jaden Akins, Jase Richardson, Jaxon Kohler, and Coach Tom Izzo. I know many of you have seen video of that, and if you did, you know how emotional the three Spartan players on that stage were. Jase, particularly, was a wreck. Interesting note, every other game I have covered, the media was allowed to take video, record audio, and snap pictures of these pressers. But this time, we were told none of that was allowed; I guess only the network airing the game was allowed to have that content.

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