So exactly how excited should I be about this year’s football recruiting class? Links: Mark Dantonio Introduces 2009 Recruiting Class From official MSU site. MSU recruits: Meet the class of 2009 Photos. Impact players: Baker, Caper, Fowler, Norman, Sims Edwin Baker is Emmitt Smith, but with LaDainian Tomlinson’s speed! High school football stars talk about [...]
Posts Tagged ‘football’
Educate the Blogger
Posted in football discussion, tagged dion sims, edwin baker, football, recruiting on February 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Wrapping up the football season
Posted in coffee talk, game recap, tagged capital one bowl, football, georgia on January 1, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Well, I certainly didn’t think we’d see a 6-3 score line at the half. That’s what six weeks of staring at the same statistics can do to you–make you think a particular outcome (Georgia scoring early and often, in this case) is mathematically certain. In my defense, I did point out in the bowl preview [...]
Coffee Talk: What's that? Another football game?
Posted in coffee talk, tagged capital one bowl, football on December 28, 2008 | 7 Comments »
It’s now been 36 days since the Michigan State football team last played a game. Since then: The MSU basketball team has played nine games. The Detroit Lions have played (and lost) six games. Barack Obama has announced 25 cabinet-level appointees and key advisors. Over two feet of snow has fallen and subsequently melted in [...]
Capital One Bowl Preview
Posted in game preview, tagged brian hoyer, capital one bowl, football, georgia, javon ringer, otis wiley on December 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
OR “If the football team goes 9-3, the basketball blogger will take the time to do a full-fledged game preview for the bowl game.” 1:00 pm, Thursday, January 1. The Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium, Orlando, Florida. ABC. Georgia’s and MSU’s win-loss resumes are nearly identical: 9-3 records with two decisive losses to top ten conference [...]
It's official: We're going to Disney World
Posted in news, tagged capital one bowl, football on December 7, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I’m not sure if they mentioned this during the basketball broadcast (my children were engaged in boisterous Sunday afternoon play at the time), but Coach Dantonio announced that MSU is going to the Capital One Bowl during a second-half time out. So, all you football experts out there, how nervous should we be about facing [...]
Dantonio's Double Timeout
Posted in commentary, tagged football, mark dantonio, sportsmanship analysis on November 25, 2008 | 23 Comments »
Against, my better judgment, allow me to weigh in on the Mark Dantonio double-timeout controversy. (I’m still trying my best to finally take advantage of that “be controversial to increase your blog’s traffic” advice I read somewhere.) Adam Rittenberg summarizes the facts of the case: Leading 42-7 entering the fourth quarter, Penn State continued to [...]
A disappointing day of football
Posted in game recap, tagged football, penn state on November 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
At 11:00 Eastern Time, the total margin of victory in the three games on ABC in Michigan today is 110 points. And two other Big Ten teams each won by 50+ points today (Purdue and Iowa). The only drama for Big Ten football fans today was watching Wisconsin clinch a winning record by taking advantage [...]
MSU-Penn State Combo Meal: Links, Graphical Preview, and Discussion Thread
Posted in football discussion, game preview, links, tagged football, penn state on November 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Basketball Links MAUI 2010 FIELD We’re going to Hawaii in two years. Ford Field bid for Final Four denied There won’t be another Final Four in Detroit until at least 2017. FanHouse NCAA Hoops BlogPoll: No. 9, Purdue Boilermakers T-Mill of Off the Tracks previews the Purdue basketball season for FanHouse. Football Links A room [...]
One more Rose Bowl scenario for good measure
Posted in news, tagged football, rose bowl on November 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Update: Our own SpartanDan points out the error in the scenario below. Penn State would control the head-to-head tie-breaker, having beaten both OSU and MSU. Update #2: Rittenberg has corrected his post by removing the scenario. So, like, ignore this post–except for the clever “Morrill Act Melee” part. Adam Rittenberg: Here’s the weird one: Penn [...]
A few more football-related paragraphs (blame it on MGoBlog)
Posted in commentary, tagged football, mark dantonio on January 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Brian is using some of his spare time to consider our football team’s plight. His main point is quickly conceded, as it’s a point I’ve made repeatedly over the last three months: This is fundamentally a 7-6 football team, not a 9-4 one. He goes on to cite the following quote from an Atlanta blog, [...]
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