MSU loses one more
Cassius Peat told by coaches 4 days before he was to show up on campus that they won't take him.
DL Cassius Peat tells Freep MSU coaches told him Wed. that he can't come play for Spartans, 4 days before arrival. Says he is "blindsided."
— Chris Solari (@chrissolari) June 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/chrissolari/status/873630799857414145
They may be lucky if they have 70 scholarship players this fall. Whatever it turns out to be, this has got to be super demoralizing for those that remain. It would take Mork's greatest coaching effort to keep this team together and win a couple games.
I don't see much good happening for them this season, and I'm not one bit sad about that.
Sparty slappies are blaming Solari for this story. What a bunch of dimwits.
Sparty slappies are blaming Solari for this story. What a bunch of dimwits.
Tire fire is not the preferred nomenclature.
in who could fog a mirror, then the only thing that makes any sense is an off-the-field issue. what can that be? dirty test? pending charges? no disrespect to the kid but why else on earth would sparty say no?
and with FERPA in place sparty can't even really comment so there might be no learning what happened with this kid. oh well.
RCMB posters are so angry with Solari, it's almost as if he made the decision that MSU wouldn't bring back Peat or something. Just unreal those guys.
this is why it's always good to bank two scholarships, so you can save one just to prank your little brother
At the end of the day this may be a blessing in disguise for Peat to not have to walk into MSU with the shape they're currently in. Maybe he can head for greener pastures at a program going in another direction. Perhaps go row the boat at Minnesota.
Dantonio's seat has to be getting hot, right?
Dantonio (w/ Narduzzi) is as good as MSU will ever do long term (They could find another Saban, but anyone really good is going to move in within 3-5 years). I'd say 3-9 plus all the off field issues have warmed his seat considerably but he's still their best coach of the last 50 years and probably got MSU to its only CFP of the next 50 years
I'd bet another rough year or two will see him 'retire' but I'd be fairly shocked if they fired him outright in the next few years unless some mammoth scandal broke out
Make snarky stupid cryptic comments at post game interview like ..." sometimes you gotta keep the lions locked up in a cage until it's time to feed them. Then let them out. Only when they're really hungry."
"Make snarky stupid cryptic comments at post game interview like ..." sometimes you gotta keep the lions locked up in a cage until it's time to feed them. Then let them out. Only when they're really hungry."
Must admit he made the most outlandish victory statements in that short-lived period, rivaling those of any other coach running a program with such a limited shelf-life. "Beating Michigan. We're going to keep doing that. It's important and fun." I mean, Damn!!!! It was almost as if he didn't fully grasp or understand the school and that it had to return to it's rightful place just as surely as we did ours.' There are certain facts of life one must eventually, no matter how difficult, accept and be grateful for the good times because they don't happen that often in this particular case.
Actually, I hope we just thump them without doing anything remarkable. Going for two or calling other plays to specifically rub it in would give MSU fans the satisfaction of thinking this is a big deal to us. Winning big without doing anything remarkable is way worse for them, because it puts MSU in the category of just another overmatched opponent, like Illinois or Maryland last year.
This. 1000X This. Looking forward to putting MSU back in the corner where they belong. Looking forward to shining a light on how overbilled Dantonio was as a coach, since "elite" coaches don't let their programs completely collapse in Year 11 of their tenure. If that's happening, then you probably weren't that good in the first place.
It's gratifying that the epilogue on Dantonio's career will read as his success being built on filling the vacuum left by Michigan and Penn State floundering more than his actually building a program that would last. That was always a fantasy.
This is pretty much true.
You let your players consistently get away with criminal behavior, you wind up with a team full of criminals that you eventually have to kick off.
I still have the utmost respect for Coach Danonio," Peat said.
Where does Danonio coach?
I wouldn't be surprised if at their Monday meeting the Board of Regents told Dantonio and Hollis to get their acts together and start doing a better job of vetting football players. And if they want to grant a player with a checkered past a scholarship, they better be ready to tender their resignation if said player does anything to put the university in a bad light.
it went more along the lines of, make an example out of someone. Keep doing what you're doing just pull the reins in. You're doing a great job Mike.
Brother.
That we came up with that stupid meme is on us.
That it still sticks a decade later is on them.
It will be interesting to see where Peat ends up.
If all this crap happened in Ann Arbor, Harbaugh would be getting roasted by all the talking heads all summer. Pete Finebaum would have material for his show for weeks.