Just one link: ESPN.com’s Adam Rittenberg reports that, due to not playing an FCS patsie, MSU still controls its own destiny with respect to the Rose Bowl. I wouldn’t book your plane tickets to Pasadena just yet, though. Regarding the upcoming football game vs. the Badgers: At noon on Saturday, I anticipate I’ll be frolicking [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Discussion Thread: MSU-Wisconsin and Green-White Basketball Scrimmage
Posted in football discussion, tagged football on October 29, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Monday Night Links: On-Vacation Edition
Posted in links, tagged kalin lucas, raymar morgan on October 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Michigan State was pegged as the #2 team in the conference going into this season by the Big Ten media. No complaints here: Purdue had a better conference record than us last year and returns all their starters. Raymar Morgan is a preseason all-Big Ten pick. Kalin Lucas’s chances of making the postseason version of [...]
Hooray for Hoyer
Posted in game recap, tagged brian hoyer, football, wolverines on October 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Me, last night: One set of numbers we haven’t talked about are the career statistics of our senior quarterback: 57.1% completion percentage, 7.0 yards per pass attempt, 32-18 TD-Int ratio. If Brian Hoyer can just revert to the mean for one game, it will be a good day for the Green and White tomorrow. Well, [...]
MSU-Michigan links
Posted in links on October 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Programming note: The Spartans Weblog clan is leaving for sunnier parts on Sunday, returning to Michigan the following Sunday. So posting will be light-to-nonexistent next week. I shall return, batteries recharged, ready to do some major tempo-free analysis of the basketball team’s opening exhibition tilt vs. Northern Michigan on Wednesday the 5th. Links from enemy [...]
Russell Byrd chooses the Green and White
Posted in news, tagged recruiting, russell byrd on October 24, 2008 | Comments Off
Some good news for a rivalry week Friday: Russell Byrd has chosen Michigan State over Kentucky and Michigan. What we know about Mr. Byrd: Junior out of Fort Wayne. Becomes MSU’s second commitment of the 2010 class, joining Keith Appling. 6’7″, 190-pound forward known for his perimeter shooting ability. Ranked as a 4-star recruit by [...]
And the winner is . . .
Posted in contest, links, tagged mat ishbia on October 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
. . . Nick, whose Mat Ishbia Day story captured the hearts of Spartans Weblog readers everywhere (after first capturing the heart of Mrs. Spartans Weblog). Nick’s “Best Day as a Spartan Story” took home 19 of the 43 votes cast by readers. Congratulations to Nick on winning a free copy of College Basketball Prospectus [...]
Special in-state-rivalry edition football game preview
Posted in game preview, tagged football, wolverines on October 23, 2008 | 11 Comments »
And by “game preview,” I mean “a bunch of graphs interspersed with random observations and questions of an unanswerable nature.” Data presented below are from here and here. Big Picture Reasons I Am Fairly Optimistic About Saturday’s Game With one spectacular except, MSU has simply been a much better team than Michigan this season. The [...]
Raymar shooting the rock
Posted in news, stats analysis, tagged basketball depth, pace, raymar morgan on October 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
One of the standard lines in season previews of this year’s Michigan State basketball team is that, in the wake of Drew Neitzel’s graduation, Raymar Morgan has to step up as MSU’s go-to scorer. And that’s a reasonable statement. Morgan is an extremely talented player who (1) goes into just about every college basketball game [...]
The best of the best days as a Spartan
Posted in contest on October 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to all of you who took the time to share about your best day as a Spartan. It was a fun way to learn a little bit more about each other. Now we get down to brass tacks. There’s a data-saturated tome at stake. Mrs. Spartans Weblog has dutifully made her selections as to [...]
Tuesday Links: More from TAFKATBTW
Posted in links, tagged delvon roe, idong ibok, kalin lucas on October 21, 2008 | Comments Off
The Big Ten Geeks have part 1 of their interview with John Gasaway up. Assists are adverbial! Tom Izzo says the team is looking “tougher” than he expected through the first three practices! Kalin Lucas is practicing at both the point and 2-guard. Delvon Roe is participating in full contact drills, but is being held [...]
