

I mentioned our young players' experience, give our young players experience. Obviously you have certain concerns that are inherent to every football team, and in other areas you just have basic losses, guys who have graduated, so you guys know the positions that we're dealing with, so you can take some questions with that in a little bit here.Įxperiment with position change, experiment with new concepts. We've got to address our needs and concerns. I think that's what we're sort of measured ourselves against that. I think if you can do that for 15 practices, you get significantly better. That's sort of inbred in us, I think, as a program and what my college coach told me to do as a player way, way back, so we'll continue to do those things. We want to try to get three percent better as a player, as a program, I think every single practice. Probably pretty much the same that we've always been. I think every spring brings forth a set of goals for us. That attracted almost 2,000 people last year, 2,000 young people. It will be before the spring game, as well. We'll have a spring student clinic, youth clinic. Again, we'll have our spring game this year (April 23). Obviously we go through recruiting after bowl games and such and then into winter conditioning.īut this is, I think, the first opportunity we have, a chance to sort of see where we're at as a football team, watch our players, especially watch our young players as they've had an extra year to - our freshmen, they had an extra year to redshirt and see how they come out of situations. I think spring ball basically is sort of the beginning of the next phase for us. First of all, I think this goes into our 10th spring, so some things change, some things do not as we move through the process. Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio held a press conference on Monday afternoon in the Izzo Family Media Center at Spartan Stadium to preview spring practice, which begins on Tuesday and culminates with the annual Green-White spring game on Saturday, April 23.īelow is a complete transcript from Monday's press conference: If not, we could find ourselves trapped in a prison of our own making.Spring Roster | Spring Depth Chart | Spring Preview NotesĮAST LANSING, Mich. Neither of these solutions would address the millions of tiny bits of trash floating around the Earth, so the best idea for now is to prevent more from building up. Their idea is to send a machine into space called the E-DeOrbit, which would literally shoot a net at old satellites and drag them back into the atmosphere with a small rocket. Another proposal from the ESA tackles the larger pieces of debris, like old satellites. One NASA program called Space Debris Elimination proposes shooting atmospheric gasses into space to destabilize the debris' orbit and send it plummeting back to Earth, where it will burn up in our atmosphere. Luckily, scientists are working on ways to prevent this. We could literally trap ourselves on Earth if we're not careful. The more that this space junk proliferates, the harder and harder it will be to send anything up into space. This space pollution is a major problem-because of how fast objects orbiting Earth travel, even a paint fleck a few millimeters long can cause serious damage when it hits something.

As of now, space agencies are already tracking 750,000 pieces of space debris orbiting the Earth. In fact, there are millions of pieces of junk, ranging from tiny flecks of paint to entire satellites currently taking up space around the Earth's atmosphere.

Not everything we send into space comes back down.
