Sparty NO Schadenfreude Thread
i figured we might get a head start on Sparty schadenfreude and post some of the good stuff here. Maybe we'll even help Brian with TWIS!
Here's what I found, from RCMB:
96 minutes ago
ozzieman30 said...
It's all about the BCS
You know that's the pathetic part of this crap.
It is all about the BCS and how "it" makes money.
At the start of this season somebody posted an article about the NCAA and what complete sham it is. To sum it up, the NCAA is fucking over the players. That someday somebody will take the NCAA down.
Aren't these games supposed to be about the kids playing the game?
If that's so, fuck michigan playing in the BCS because they have a pimped out team that pulls in trailer trash to watch. Because the only reason I;m seeing about them getting a BCS bid has nothing to do with their season, it's purely bucks. So as a Spartan fan I feel I have every right to be bitter that a team made up of decent kids is going to get fucked over just because they put themselves in a position to go to a higher level. Yep, tell them that they are second rate to a team they beat.
Guess the part that sucks is that by losing their way into no shot at a championship Hoke a joke and pizza boy have had a week open to lobby and suck dick. And they have. Hope I'm wrong and the rest of the nation watched tonight and realize the kids are more important than scummers sucking in cash to pay more off on the Hanson Window renovation of the shit hole. I guess I doubt it.
December 4th, 2011 at 9:57 AM ^
Everybody knew going into this game that the loser would most likely not go to a BCS bowl. That is generally how things play out with Championship Games. In the B1G when all was said or done, there were only two teams that could have guaranteed themselves a spot in the BCS. Wisconsin sealed it for themselves (or should we say MSU sealed it for them?). We had two regular season losses, same as them. We beat both of the teams that beat them, one of them in epic beatdown fashion. At the same time, they got horrendously beaten in both of their losses, while we were within one score in the 4th quarter in both of ours. Why exactly do they deserve to go? Because they beat us, at home, in a trash tornado by exercising despicable post-play violence? MSU most definitely did not get robbed.
December 4th, 2011 at 10:46 AM ^
Correct. This is not a Michigan State thing.
The loser of a conference championship game typically gets screwed on bowl selection. They have an additional and fresh loss, and a disillusioned fan base that may not be predisposed to spend the money and time to travel to yet another big game.
This is how it works. Conference members know this when they chase the money of a CCG. MSU was just the first to experience it. Next year it will happen to someone else. Some year it will happen to Michigan. Is what it is.
Quit the whine.
December 4th, 2011 at 1:41 PM ^
Three times in BCS history an at-large bid has gone to a conference championship game loser. Two of those three were 2008 Alabama and 2009 Florida, which means Sparty should have known what was up before they agreed to play the BTCG.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:48 AM ^
"If that's so, fuck michigan playing in the BCS because they have a pimped out team that pulls in trailer trash to watch." - from the quoted RCMB source
...except our trailer trash travels well and piques national curiosity. MSU trailer trash is so....Delta Township.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:35 AM ^
Obviously we travel well, we already have our trailers ready to go.
December 4th, 2011 at 11:30 AM ^
I think that is the difference between UM trailer trash and MSU trailer trash. UM trailer trash is the type where you can drive it and actually go places. MSU trailer trash is the type that sits on cinder blocks in middles of a meth neighborhood that cannot move.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:40 AM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 5:58 AM ^
If MSU hadn't gotten creamed by ND and Nebraska we wouldn't be having this discussion. They got a shot at the B1G championship and a Rose Bowl but they didn't win. I don't feel sorry for them. Brady Hoke would have traded places with them in a second to be on that field, even if losing means you might not get a BCS bowl.
December 4th, 2011 at 10:32 AM ^
I sure love the schadenfreude, but I would happily trade our current position to have had a shot at the championship. And I'm actually feeling a lot of empathy for State today, having been the relatively recent victim of a 42-39 loss in a very important game, decided in part by a flag the ref really had no choice but to throw.... Suck it up and go win your bowl game.
December 4th, 2011 at 7:17 AM ^
They had their chance and LOST...And I would have to say the trailer trash is on the msu side..Have fun waiting another 20+years for a Rose bowl, losers ........
December 4th, 2011 at 7:42 AM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 7:45 AM ^
....that they are still "little brother" in mentality. Yeah, I would think that, if this were Denard being interviewed, mention of MSU would be conspicuously absent from his remarks. I do appreciate that they never shirk at an opportunity to give us a mention though - that's one more shirt sold somewhere.
December 4th, 2011 at 11:01 AM ^
Comments like that from Cousins make the roughing the punter call and the cruel way they lost all the more sweeter.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:28 AM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 10:28 AM ^
Lolololol
December 4th, 2011 at 2:24 PM ^
Very well played. I called it "Insightful," even though that does nothing.
December 4th, 2011 at 9:40 AM ^
Um Kirk, aren't you supposed to talk about what a magnificent privilege it was to play in the first ever B1G Champoinship Game and all that jazz. C'mon man, keep your Eddie Haskell front on. You sound like some whiner who feels entitled to a BCS bowl despite the fact that you had a shot at one and Sparty No!!!'d it away. Now Kirk, I wanna hear you say something like hard work...blah blah blah. We had our shot...bla blah blah. Oh, and when I run into you at a wedding or something I will certainly not mention how Denard and company, whom you beat three times, went to a BCS bowl while you and the Ingham County Work Release Crew went to some anonymous Bowl named after either a shitty restaurant or a bottom feeder credit card company.
December 4th, 2011 at 10:02 AM ^
be a world-class university with 132 years of great football tradition, 42 Big Ten titles, the most wins and highest winning percentage, largest football stadium and a national following. You guys go work on that, and maybe this won't happen to you again. But be patient, because it takes generations.
December 4th, 2011 at 11:56 AM ^
I'm sure hed have no problem if they moved UP a couple spots had they won. Can't have it both ways.
December 4th, 2011 at 12:41 PM ^
but he always comes off as whiny and petty. The reason no one cares about MSU is because even MSU cares about Michigan more than MSU
December 4th, 2011 at 8:23 AM ^
Here's Johnny Adams. Sorry, but I just can find any sympathy for a guy who has something to say or some gesture to make after every single play.
Smoke up, Johnny
December 4th, 2011 at 11:05 AM ^
couldn't agree more.. ive watched several games this year where he should of been flagged several times... he is a classless player.. fuckin clown i can taste your sparty tears nom nom
December 4th, 2011 at 8:35 AM ^
It feels like they wanted to lose this game so they can complain about how the world is unfair to them. Seriously guys, you have a chance to win the B10, just shut up and play for a chance in the Rose Bowl. More time watching film, less time complaining about life. You will always be our "little brother."
December 4th, 2011 at 8:40 AM ^
Call the waaaaaaaambulance. Go Blue
December 4th, 2011 at 8:41 AM ^
That's some world-class cognitive dissonance there.
December 4th, 2011 at 9:50 AM ^
They think everyone on their team is a Kirk Cousins clone. (to be fair, we think every kid on their team is Gholston).
Meanwhile, they think every kid on Michigan is...wait, who are Michigan's bad apples?
December 4th, 2011 at 8:49 AM ^
I found it quite appropriate that a team whose players lack discipline in their personal lives was done in by an obvious penalty for running into the kicker. You can enable criminal behavior all you want as a coach, but it eventually comes back to bite you in the bleep. Just a tad more discipline in EL and all of the schadenfreude is directed toward Madison.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:50 AM ^
Sparty or Dantonio like to claim that they belong, but every time they get a chance to prove it, they lose, then make all sorts of excuses. Just proves that they haven't arrived.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:58 AM ^
When the game ended and the presser began, I wanted to say, "Act like you've been there...oh wait..."
December 4th, 2011 at 8:51 AM ^
At first they were like...
Then they were like...
December 4th, 2011 at 8:59 AM ^
This is a quote from The Only Colors thread that just made me laugh - and for the record, I'm an MSU alum (grad school).
We're one of the best traveling fanbases in the country With alums everywhere. Ohio State beats us out in bowl selections when possible, but beyond that, no other team has real legitimacy to based solely on +$.
When you can't sell out your rinky-dink stadium for home games, and had trouble filling whatever allotment the Cap One bowl gave you for last year's game in Florida, you have NO claim to being a national fanbase that travels well. Driving from EL to A2 for a Juggalo's convention does not a mobile fanbase make.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:59 AM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 9:06 AM ^
They played a great game, and then blew it. It is their own fault. LOL Sparty !
Karma is a bitch ...
December 4th, 2011 at 10:24 AM ^
Not to mention that the Sparty player's foot whacked the kicker on the way through anyway. Even if he'd missed him with the body, the foot hit the punter. I laughed so hard when I saw it happen. The punter getting up and celebrating made it even better!
December 4th, 2011 at 12:45 PM ^
The punter was absolutely roughed. Yeah he acted, but it just made it an easier call for the ref. Whining about that call is really digging for something to complain about
December 4th, 2011 at 1:23 PM ^
Also, and maybe because there were no replays it wasn't that big a deal, but on the return I thought there was a block in the back that would have negated return anyway.
It was a tough way to lose a game, but so was allowing a 40+-yard bomb on 4th down.
December 4th, 2011 at 9:42 AM ^
Egad, my good man - this made me spit out my mimosa:
Driving from EL to A2 for a Juggalo's convention does not a mobile fanbase make.
December 4th, 2011 at 9:43 AM ^
Brady Hoke, after losing to Wisc in the first ever B1G Championship game: "I made a mistake calling for Lewis to block that punt. He played aggressive football, just like we coach him..my bad."
Mark Dantonio in the same situation:
“I don’t know if he hit him,” Dantonio said. “You probably have seen all the replays, but he threw the flag. I thought he flopped a little bit.”
If it weren't for low class they would have no class at all.
December 4th, 2011 at 10:31 AM ^
He can't be sure whether he hit him or not because he hasn't seen the replays. Okay, fair enough. But, how is he then sure that he flopped?
December 4th, 2011 at 2:45 PM ^
Again, for all the "Dantonio is a hard-nosed coach who loves his team" crap we hear, he sure does whine a whole lot. He's an average coach who had a senior-laden team and a down rival for a couple of years - I'd be amazed if they won more than 8 games next year considering they have only a couple of playmakers returning on offense, are breaking in a new QB, and have holes on the defensive side that probably won't be filled easily. Heck, getting bowl eligible may be tough considering they also have to go on the road for a bunch of games.
December 4th, 2011 at 9:44 AM ^
oops. doublepost
December 4th, 2011 at 9:45 AM ^
That the hail Mary Td pass over wiscy didn't guaranty a victory since the game was going to OT, no penalty on the punt doesn't guaranty a victory as MSU likely scores and leaves about a minute on the clock for wiscy, which is a lot of time.
December 4th, 2011 at 9:53 AM ^
hahahaha, "decent kids"!?!?!?!?!?! This guy is fucking kidding himself. HAHAHAHAHAHA.
December 4th, 2011 at 10:11 AM ^
What will their Rose Bowl billboard say this year? I think "he didn't touch the punter much"
December 4th, 2011 at 10:20 AM ^
But I'm sure Sparty Nation will state their case clearly and rationally on the myriad of billboards that are sure to pop up all over Michigan decrying the injustice of this whole BCS mess.
December 4th, 2011 at 10:34 AM ^
Is anyone else having trouble loading images?
December 4th, 2011 at 10:35 AM ^
The Pop-Up on msuspartans.com is priceless. It was still there at the time of this message.