Let's Point And Laugh At Michigan State Hockey

Is Nelson pointing at Aaron Rodgers?

Sparty NO-iest of Sparty NO! moments in recent memory.  Unless "Tom Anastos" is the Clark Kent identity of Scotty Bowman, this is as bizarre as it gets.

Slash a man's head while he lays motionless on the ice, and this is what you get.

The NAHL didn't really crumble did it?  It still exists, I know some kids in it.  It's not competative with the USHL but it never was.

But seriously.  Like seriously?  How. Did. This. Happen?  Who is coaching Union right now?  Yale?  UNO?  There have got to be smaller program coaches with great track records who would beat down walls to get the State job.

#HALOL

Ohio State even got a coach that was somewhat decent and their team has resided somewhere between mid-major and kind of good-ish their entire existence.

Are they just planning on dropping the sport in its entirety, because this would be step one on the road to that end.

Is this Hollis' effort to make the Comely era look not-so-bad-after-all?   I realize that this is funny for us because it's State, but it's shocking that a program in a top level conference with a fair amount of history would make such an absolute reach for a hire.

I really thought they were going to hire Danton Cole who coached the USA U-17  team this past season and before that coached Alabama - Huntsville.  

This is a huge shock and in my opinion MSU will not be good at hockey anytime soon.  

Dantonio makes "Pride comes before the fall comment."

MSU enjoys brief stay atop the landscape in this state.

Basketball reverses itself into a complete opposite dimension, completely opposite of football.

Pride comes before the fall comment takes itself out on State's own teams, but starts off with basketball and hockey.

Then in 2011 the football program at MSU gets hit in a weird karma-like reality, joining the basketball and hockey teams in what will become their own self-created purgatory.

Indeed, Pride WILL come before the fall, Spartans!

P.S. Does anyone know if State is announcing any new uniforms for football or basketball? Seems like it's been about a year or so since they've changed.

Anyone else see who was a teammate of Anastos's on the 85-86 Sherbrooke Canadiens?  One Claude Lemieux.  Let's hope Anastos learned the turtle move for when we beat his team into submission!

This makes no sense unless MSU's new goal for the program is "make Penn State feel welcome by sucking as much as they will in their first couple of years as a D-1 program"

That '80s helmet hair is awesome.  I hereby endorse that hire.

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In a logically ordered universe, Hollis would be selling tractors and sheep manure in St. John's.

he's not as bad of a hire as it looks.  coached under ron mason and has ran a league for 13 years

No, it is every bit as bad a hire as it looks.

Mark Hollis is probably extremely proud of himself.

I am shocked. No really, I am.

I'm going to reserve my laughter until I am sure he is a terrible coach and MSU beats out Bolwing Green for last next year, but I'm not worried about it.

This is incredible, and the dark blue part of my grand image of Penn State being the Big Ten doormat just took a radical shift into the green spectrum.

Even if he doesn't turn out to be a complete dud, how in the world do they expect to sell tickets next year? You can't convince me for all the tea in China that MSU couldn't do better than that. MICHIGAN TECH WILL PROBABLY BE HIRING A BETTER CANDIDATE THAN MSU JUST DID!

Anastos recently coached his daughters'(I believe he has two) Honeybaked U-12 team to a state title! If that doesn't tell you how good of a coach he really is, then something is surely the matter with you...

I'm no expert when it comes to junior and college hockey; I was only dimly aware of possible candidates and make no pretense about being able to make a better hire myself. But I love the sport, I love the school, and my son plays. I spent my whole life being fed the idea that MSU is a national power, but today feels like the day that's over forever. 

Of course it figures that this morning I let my son open his birthday present a day early, so he could wear it to practice tonight:

Peace

Ty

If college hockey was college football, this would be worse than the meltdown that occurred when Chizik was hired by Auburn. Unless Anastassoseses has $200k sitting around to purchase Mario Lemiuex and one of those fake moustache thingy-s, this can only end... poorly.

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Wow, I just saw pictures of Anastos and MSU didn't just hire a guy who hasn't coached in 20 years.  They hired a guy with the ultimate look of coaching failure:  he looks like he could be Dave Wannstedt's twin or brother. 

I offer some classic Sparty rationalization:

"Above all, a head coach has to be a well-organized administrator who: knows how to delegate appropriately; presents a strong public image; is respected in the field....TA has all of this and more"

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"I remember back before umaa hired an old guy named Bersenson who had never recruited a player and he was 47. Turned out pretty well.

ps Hoke is 0-0 just like Anastos ."

"he's showed vision and creativity throughout his career. he's stuck to the job he had as commish and did a great job at it. he knows hockey and he coached under one of the best. he did well at umD granted thats not a very high level but he did well there."

"I actually like this hire. His personality seems to be exactly what the program needs right now. He is going to be very knowledgeable. We'll see how it goes. I will be the first to buy tickets to his first game here."