Doug Skene chat on the Detroit News
I don't know if anyone caught this -- I was drawn to it by an Angelique tweet -- but ex-UM OL Doug Skene did a chat at the Detroit News. Some of what I thought were the best bits:
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October 8th, 2013 at 4:06 PM ^
I really like the way you did this. I always liked Doug Skene, who was a really good and really reliable lineman. The parts that you quoted, I really liked. I have got to make time to go through the entire interview.
October 8th, 2013 at 4:12 PM ^
Skene's chat corroborates my recollection of Perles's MSU teams. They always seemed to be out to injure rather than just play hard, which is disgusting to nearly all of us who've played physical sports. That sort of stuff is the kernel of my rather intense dislike of that program.
October 8th, 2013 at 4:14 PM ^
It seems like little has changed from those days.
October 8th, 2013 at 4:16 PM ^
11,037,600 minutes of unnescessary roughness
October 8th, 2013 at 4:21 PM ^
It's only my recollection, but it did seem worse in that era - especially the 'going for the knees' stuff. I think Narduzzi's teams are a bit dirty too (thank goodness Denard's head stayed attached after the helmet yank a couple years ago), but the Perles years had much more The Longest Yard type 'do what you need to to get Player X out of the game' stupidity.
October 8th, 2013 at 4:14 PM ^
MSU being dirty at the end, makes me picture him having a PTSD flashback moment where he is just stuck in that minute.
October 8th, 2013 at 4:28 PM ^
that he was a guy who could take care of himself if you know what I mean. There was a good bit of Taylor Lewan in Skene, and vice versa. And for him to go off on MSU like that is all at once both surprising (for the immediacy of his language) and predictable. Those games have been filthy for a long, long time. They really are a different kind of opponent. Stats back it up. The records show a spike in the level of MSU personal fouls in games with Michigan. (And it is my non-quantifiable view that B1G refs actually call those games looser, rather than tighter. I think they actually fear turning those games into televised penalty contests and so let a lot of stuff go. Just filthy games.)
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October 8th, 2013 at 4:48 PM ^
... but that game was never 35-3. Sparty got it to 28-10 in the second half, with a bunch of traded turnovers. (And a number of Michigan personal fouls too, to be fair.) It ended up 35-10 with a late Michigan score.
October 8th, 2013 at 4:59 PM ^
Very cool - thanks for the summary!
October 8th, 2013 at 5:10 PM ^
I'm dating myself (because no one else will...HA!!), but I had a class with Doug Skene in 92-93... Intro to Urban Planning. (The Fab 5 was also in the class... I found out some years afterwards that the class was somewhat notorious for being a blow-off class. I didn't know; I took it because it seemed relevant to my major)
Didn't really talk to him or anyone else in the class besides my HS buddy, but I do remember is that in one group session, he snarked the Elvs Grbac wasn't really a fun guy. I seem to remember that Skene was Grbac's roommate so the snark was probably in good fun.
October 8th, 2013 at 5:24 PM ^
I guess some things never change. MSU has been Lil Brother even before Mike Hart coined the term.
October 9th, 2013 at 11:09 AM ^
Really interesting; always cool to get ex-players' takes.
IIRC, Coach Bo had the same rule about being on time as my other all time favorite football coach, Vince Lombardi. You had to be 15 minutes EARLY for a meeting/practice/game to be considered "on time!!!"