Congrats Sparty

The one thing I know is that their coaching staff out performs our staff. So their walk on LB played great! Odds are is they beat us again in EL. I just hope it is not another blow out win for them!

They deserve it! Their playing at a high level and if u want to put them back in their place, go out and beat themm! Dont sit thier and pray thier program falls apart

The conference needed this win, but it sucks to see any rival have success when our program seems to be lacking direction, passion, and progress.  I've been a fan of Brady Hoke from the moment he did his first press conference, but if this program has another season like this, then Dave Brandon needs cut him loose and hire someone who has legitimately shown the ability to build a program through recruitng AND player development.  Hell if it came down to it, I would offer Jim Tressel the job.

Eff that rosy shit. Don't act like you hate em all year, and then be kind to them one day of the year. FAKE.

Congrats to them. Hell of a team.

...those fuckers.

7 Stages of Grief...

1. SHOCK & DENIAL
2. PAIN & GUILT
3. ANGER & BARGAINING
4. DEPRESSION
5. THE UPWARD TURN
6. RECONSTRUCTION & WORKING THROUGH
7. ACCEPTANCE & HOPE

We need to slap the slippery fish right in the gill hole! Happy time feed bag, frog face. Cement landing!

This. I'll be nicer towards them when their fanbase acts better towards us. Until then, they're dead to me.

Fuck this. Our program is a joke and our coach is an absolute clown. I'm not in the mood to congratulate anyone for shit.

Just wait until ThadMottasAGoblin comes on and tells us all how big of pussies we all are for acknowledging that MSU played well.

Just wait until I'm called a douchebag for not saying that Dantonio is the best thing since sliced bread, but with Ohio State or Notre Dame none of these threads ever show up. Kind of funny really when these holier than thou people ignore big Buckeye wins but are on everyone when they're not kissing MSU's ass.

I'm glad Sparty won. It's good for the Conference. I'm sick as hell of hearing all this "B1G can't beat anyone good" chatter. And this over the top hate BS re: Sparty is for middle schoolers.

I want to beat them - and everyone else we play - but I could care less about their reputed attitude towards us. The MSU fans I know are just fine. Mark Hollis is a good AD, and Dantonio is a very good coach.

They're building a formidable program, and we need to accept the challenge and do better. Much better.

As far as I'm concerned, it's fitting that they kicked our butts after our AD was enough of a douchebag to do a "Go Blue" skywriter slogan over their stadium.

That was the most low-class, embarrassing thing I've ever seen the UM athletic department do, and Brandon should have been held accountable for it. Could you ever imagine Bo or Don Canham pulling a spoiled frat-boy stunt like that?

Time to clean the UM house, from the top down, and get back to building a better football program for Michigan.

Brandon, his minions, and Hoke & Co. need to go.

 

So we'll have a thread congratulating the Ohio state Buckeyes if they beat Clemson. Somehow I doubt that. If there isn't a big thread on Ohio State this friday then you're pretty much a hypocrite.

Funny how you Montucky Yooper can't move on until everyone on here has said what a great team MSU is. It ain't gonna happen. Not if they go 15-0 for the next 20 years. Not with their fanbase.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again: fuck them. Their douchebag of a coach took shots in the media at a player. Who else does that? That same douchebag would've rather seen Michigan lose to OSU despite the fact that a U of M victory would've given him his first Rose Bowl berth. What about the way he showed his ass at the coaches clinic a couple years back? Remember the cheap shots and Denard's twisted helmet that he failed to admonish? What about them taking to Twitter to talk shit about Denard in a game that had no bearing on them whatsoever? How many Sparties openly cheered against Michigan in the Sugar Bowl and last year's NC, and bought App State t-shirts following The Horror ? Now we're kissing their ass because they won the Rose Bowl? Sheesh. Neg away if you all want; I'm a big boy, I can take it.

Why did "we" need this win? So we can delude ourselves into thinking the B1G isn't a shitty conference when we and the rest of the country knows it is? He may be reviled here, but Meyer was right by saying the coaches in this conference need to step their game up in order to kill the national perception of the B1G, Hoke included.

I will say congrats to the Michigan state Spartans. Fanbase and Michigan hatred aside, I couldn't be more impressed with how they've done this. You look at where this team Was week 1 to where it was tonight and you could see they came together, got better every week, and gained much confidence along the way. Sparty is playing the way that Hoke proclaimed Michigan would play. They are big. They are physical. They are fast. They are calm and collected. Michigan has been recruiting great and all I can do is hope that the recruiting and player development take care of itself. With the talent on our roster 8-5 / 7-6 are very unacceptable and with the schedule next year anything less then 9-10 wins would be less then ideal.

Nice win for them.  Nice win for the conference.  I only wish our D played with such an aggressive, attacking style.

I walked into the office and there's a poster up at the front that says "Meet the most dominant team in Big Ten conference history" and a list of scores/stats from each of their games, only Big Ten team to ever win all conference games by double digits, etc.

At the risk of sounding like I am fellating them, their defense is very, very good and I think the only teams that I would pick over them would be FSU or Alabama.  That unit has a legitimate gripe that they are not in the national championship game.

I know they had their offensive struggles early but its still super hard to believe this team loss to Notre Dame. That D on the other hand made cowards out of men all year.

... but I will give congrats to their players. It's okay to respect your rivals and when your rivals perform well and you beat them it makes winning all the better. I hope OSU wins for the B1G and we beat the hell out of both MSU and OSU next year. We need to surpass good teams. As much as it pains me to say this, I think Hoke needs 5 years. I was so disappointed with this year. If things do not improve, after 5 years then both Brandon and Hoke will have to answer for the poor performance. Winning fixes almost everything. ... [ed] oh, and when and if we move in another direction, can we then finally get an AD who actually knows something about football coaching rather than pizza (...and yes, I do know that Brandon played a game for Bo back in the day.)

Nope. Most teams don't give any credit to the other team and I like it that way. No NFL teams do, no SEC teams do, we don't with Ohio State, but apparently we're supposed to have extreme brotherly love for MSU.