Bruce Feldman profile of William Gholston
Bruce Feldman did a profile on William Gholston today, most of it focused on his acts in the Michigan game last year and suspension that followed. Some interesting Michigan related notes:
1. Feldman fails to point out that Gholston used an illegal armbar to injure Lewan on the first series. Someone should send him some video of this.
2. MSU coaches claim that Gholston was just responding to repeated cheap shots by Michigan (yet ignoring the Gholston armbar).
3. MSU coaches claim 2 other schools documented cheap shots made by Michigan. All anonymous claims by MSU.
"Some around the Spartans program reasoned that while Gholston was wrong for his reaction in the Michigan game, they also noted that after studying the game film that he lost his poise after he repeatedly was cheap-shotted. They'll tell you how two other Big Ten programs contacted Michigan State after the Michigan game to inform them about cheap shots by the Wolverines that they also documented."
This can only be from the following teams if it did indeed occur the week after the game: Minnesota and Northwestern as they were the only Big Ten teams we played before MSU. This sounds fabricated to me.
4. No mention of the false claims made by MSU immediately after the game that Lewan used racial slurs to try to justify Gholston's actions.
The entire point of Feldman's article was to point out that the guy is so much more than one incident, delving into a tough background where he left his home at the age of 14 and floated around during his high school years, and so you fixate on the incident and the violations that Feldman supposedly missed when he was prefacing his article? The entire point of the article is to flesh him out as a person instead of a goon by interviewing his coaches and teammates, which is pretty standard practice among journalists.
He's been vilified a thousand times over by this fanbase at this point. Isn't it a little pathetic that we can't move past it at this point? Sure Dantonio was going to let it slide, but the league punished his crime.
I'm more bitter when I think that if Hoke was here, there is no way he would be at MSU, but there's nothing we can do about that either. He happens to be a very good football player, and his size, skill, and dedication are going to allow him to rise above his background and that's pretty damn cool no matter who he is.
The boat sank, get over it.
It's a sad day when a well reasoned argument can't stay up on this site for 30 seconds before it's labelled trolling. It wasn't. If you disagree with me, please argue back rather than falsely moderating something.
Would we be "getting over it" if Denard was steering a wheelchair with his mouth right now? Thank god he wasn't seriously injured, but there was only one thing that head twist move is designed to do. Tom Gholston is and will forever remain a goon in my mind for that incident.
If indeed Denard suffered a career-ending neck injury on that play, the fallout would have been cataclysmic. A story that would have transcended sport, law and society.
And if Taylor Lewan had suffered an elbow dislocation (he nearly did; he left the game for a series or two, right?) it would have dramatically altered the game (which was Gholston's intent no doubt).
OP... I'm worried about ya man. Come back to Earth!!
I didn't see anything in there about MSU coaches claming Gholston responded to "repeated cheap shots" and I didn't see anything about MSU coaches claiming 2 other schools documenting anything from us. And I don't see anything "made by MSU" immediately after the game claiming there were racial slurs uttered. Nothing at all.
What WG was bad, I think we all agree on that, but this thread seems to be an unncessary reminder. I say let them settle it on the field.
yes?
So what you're saying is that basically it's ok to break the rules and punch people and helmet twist and we should let players do that on the field?
37 holds by Lewan that game - all recorded and sent to the committee.
This is going to hurt Lewan more than that punch to the helmet.
Great post, dumbass.
Will Lewan be under new additional scrutiny from B1G referees? He's been getting that since he was a freshman.
Gholston, assuredly, as a post-suspension player, will be getting the same kind of scrutiny.
I knew both of those things before you posted anything. So I really am curious how a Michigan-hater thinks Lewan or the team will be "hurt."
Don't these Spartys have their own blogs for Sparting?
no favors.Questions Dantonio's actions and overall record with such incidents, particularly. Score this one for Michigan.
wow Feldman really did a suck off piece on Gholston didnt he? I didnt think he was that type of writer. May now have to consider my opinion of him. If Feldman is now a fan boy typical writer, spinning rumours to glorify his targeted puff piece...well that just blows every good thing anyone ever said about his integrity as a writer.