Copper Bowl Open Thread, MSU vs. TCU

Goes to TCU

It's great to see players who know how to wrap up.

when both teams have bulleyes on their shoes.

Bell stops his feet too often and is too much of a strider.  He takes too long to get up to spped. I dont see him having much of a career on Sunday, if at all.

...why in the open field Bell feels that he needs to dance around TCU's defensive elves. 

Too bad Lewis went out of bounds and left it up to the offense.

It still looks like they're calling easy plays for Maxwell.  Simple reads, 3-step drops, and quicks passes.  The stuff you do for freshman or a second stringer thrown into the game by injury.

The problems is that he's a RS Junior who's started for a year.

...the Spartan Puntfest 2012.

Sadler's going to need a starting pitcher type ice wrap after this one.

Number of pass completions of 2 yards or less for Maxwell

over to RCMB during halftime to take their pulse.

I nominate Salvatore.

that TO badly.  It is starting to get ugly.  Maybe this will spark them,  err  maybe not.

Is there any way they don't fire their OC? Borges is god damn genius compared to him.

Time of posession reference.  DRINK!

1:19 and MSU gets the ball.  Just enough time for a 3 & out and their 7th punt of the first half!

1:19 and MSU gets the ball.  Just enough time for a 3 & out and their 7th punt of the first half!

Gary Patterson is like a Bryan Kelly clone, the way that he chews out his players who make mistakes when they come off the field.  What a fun guy to play for.

Andrew "duck sauce" Maxwell.

so sparty!

for a first down"?  Are you kidding?  The WR was bracketed by two TCU defenders, and only a last minute move prevented the pass from sailing up the TCU LB's butt.

And another almost pick.  This may be the end of Maxwell tonight.

That guy does a great job of helping his teammates up after his makes the tackle or sack.

TCU should have called a timeout there.  They could have had it with a minute to go.

The Sparty offense is embarrassing, but not as embarrassing as their punters facemask.

were playing" "our qb doesn't need to be an all-american"

I can't wait until that stupid Nelly song goes away forever.

13 carries for 42 yards

7 for 16 passing for 34 yards

3 first downs, 7 punts.

and 47 penalty yards. It isn't often you see a team with more yards in penalties than they have rushing or passing.

I wonder what would happen if this team played West Virginia? It's like the old medieval philosophy question: can God create a defense so bad that even MSU can move the ball against it?

Yeah I would rather Sparty win. Conference needs to start winning some bowl games.

Do think 3-4 would exceed expectations which is pretty pathetic that expectations are so low but what can you do.

End of day Michigan winning is all that is important but would rather be a top team in an upper echelon conference than one in a second tier league.

A TD and a 20 point game could end it. Right now they're in that Rutgers-VT territory where they're dominating the game, but they've left their opponent in the game.

If TCU could have capitolized on their last two red zone trips this game would have been completely over!

Plus something I noticed was that neither team used a time out in the first half, not sure if I have ever seen that in a game before.

Based on their performance this season, I'd say instead of "laying in the weeds" sparty has been smoking the weeds before every game.