EAST LANSING — When you don't make the postseason in college football, when you're changing coaches every couple of years, offseasons are long. There's the full nine months of waiting for another shot.
But really it's worse than that. Because the joy of the season was stolen, too. And a college campus that's not getting any joy from football is missing some of its oxygen.
This week, this Friday night, as Michigan State's football team gets set to go again, is the one time for players, coaches and fans that never loses its vitality. You can feel it — even the pessimists privately talk themselves into a little hope.
And for players and coaches, that stadium, that sideline, competing …
"The best way that I would tell you, it makes you feel alive," new MSU offensive coordinator Nick Sheridan said this week of calling a game.

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