Captain Obvious

October 23rd, 2010 at 4:08 PM ^

LSU v AU but I'm not sure I can stomach the SEC/Cam Newton trolling.  They have already insinuated that Cam is the best AU player ever, even better than Bo Jackson.  Guh, it's like Tebow 2.0 (which they also said).

Rod is your hire

October 23rd, 2010 at 4:18 PM ^

Whats the matter, is a little friendly banter really that damaging to your ego?  The thread is littered with anti MSU rhetoric.  That's fine, it should be.  Most people here don't like MSU.  Understandable.  You act like people are flaming threads with legitimate debate going on with off topic junk.

l.grant

October 23rd, 2010 at 4:24 PM ^

Rival fans chirping you a little bit and your so insecure you need to beg the mods to eliminate the problem so you don't need to face the deficiencies in your program?

Can't say I'm not surprised. 

vbnautilus

October 23rd, 2010 at 4:12 PM ^

Who am I supposed to root for, Iowa or Wisconsin? 

 

I have a really hard time watching a game without taking a side, but I can't find a good reason to go either way with this one.  

locd32

October 23rd, 2010 at 4:40 PM ^

MSU graduates a ton of seniors? Try 8 that actually play and they are split evenly among the offense and defense. MSU has only one skill player graduating in Mark Dell and if you didn't know they are kind of stacked at WR. A lot of those seniors actually split time with an underclassmen as well. MSU should be as strong as ever next year. They are very deep and talented.

BlueTimesTwo

October 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 PM ^

O: Young, Deane, Stipek, Gantt, Bendzuck, Rouse, Dell

D: Jones, Gordon, Misch, Neely, Hyde, Rucker, Johnson

ST: Bates, Shackleton

Not an insignificant number of players, is it?  Yes, a number of skill guys return, but if the big uglies regress, so does the rest of the team.  MSU may have some talent waiting behind the current starters, but if they were better players then they would be starting.  Some may improve during the offseason, but others may not.  All things being equal, returning starters > new guys stepping up.  It is one thing to have a young player displace a starter by outperforming him, but it is something else to be forced to replace former starters.  That is why Michigan fans are so excited to see a very young team that is only a few mistakes away from being a very good team.

locd32

October 23rd, 2010 at 8:21 PM ^

Young, Deane and Stipek are on the O-line and were almost beat out by two red shirt freshman and a soph to start the year. Gantt splits time at TE with a junior. Bendzuck was our 3rd string FB to start the year and is playing only becuase of injury. Rouse is out with injury for the year so we've basically already lost him and seem to be doing fine. Dell is part of a very deep WR unit and isn't even our best receiver.

Jones will be a loss as losing an AA linebacker always will be but we are reloading in that position as Bullough is coming in next year and looks to be a beast. Gordon was a decent LB but will be replaced with the young talent we have in the 2-deep (Allen). Misch isn't even a starter and plays very little. Neely is starting to lose time to our true freshman 5-star talent Will Gholston (maybe you've heard of him?). Hyde is playing ok this year but most are not sad to seem him going. He's starting to tackle better this year but he gets lost sometimes. Our incoming DB's look very good. Rucker is already lost, he probably won't be back this year and we seem to be doing just fine without him. Johnson doesn't play.

Bates is a punter, nuff said. Shackleton doesn't play.

Yeah, MSU loses SOOO much....

BlueTimesTwo

October 24th, 2010 at 12:34 AM ^

Gotcha.  A ton of the guys that have led you to your 8-0 season are leaving, but that is a good thing because there are better guys behind them.  Yeah, all of the top coaches make sure to keep the best players on the bench.

Talent is not the same thing as experience.  MSU is not winning because they have played outstanding football, but rather they have limited their mistakes while other teams have made mistakes.  Replacing a ton of guys might not affect their talent level, but it does affect the experience level.

locd32

October 24th, 2010 at 1:18 PM ^

Apparently your reading comprehension isn't so good. I'll put this in terms you can understand. Losing four players on offense and four players on defense isn't considered "replacing a ton of guys" especially when half of those players leaving are splitting time with the 2-deeps right now.

But hey, tell yourself what you need to so you can sleep at night. MSU will just spank that ass again next year.

meechiganman

October 23rd, 2010 at 5:29 PM ^

plus I'm an alum as I graduated from UM-Flint in 1999 and Im DAMN proud of it. I've lurked here a long time and NEVER seen  trolls like today. State trolls to boot. You guys shouldn't take the bate. Every time they say anything I just remind them of the all time record between the two 'schools'.  I ran into this loser with a State hat earlier today and he was puffing his chest out and talking trash. I told him: "Enjoy it while you can, because UM is like OLD MONEY and fine wine and state is a lame attempt at new money and like dandelion wine." He walked away and laughed as most of the people did around that heard it. IF he only knew that they were all laughing at him.....what pises me off about moo U is that they're the red headed step child that wants to belong but never will. Anyway, I had to get that off my chest and look forward to posting here in the future. We have to stick together because when sparty isn't burning couches, he's talking trash and I for one will fight fire with fire......no pun intended. Go BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

locd32

October 24th, 2010 at 1:23 PM ^

Obsessed? You are a rival, why wouldn't I take every chance to get under your skin? Am I supposed to be nice to you or something? You've got to be kidding me, you are so hypocritical.

M-Wolverine

October 24th, 2010 at 3:19 PM ^

But since you've proven that's basically who you are, I can see why that wouldn't be a good reason.

The better question is, why would you? Is your life so horrible, so bereft of pleasure, with no friends, or anything better to do, the only way you can get your jollies is to come here and do this?

And I don't think you know the meaning of the word "hypocritical".  I don't blame you, your education is obviously lacking.  But for it to be hypocritical, I would have to be going over the RCMB and posting dozens of posts being a complete dick....then calling you out for it. That would be hypocritical.  Since I spend my time on my team's blog, and don't care what you're saying over at your place, it's not the least bit hypocritical.  But then, I don't think you're hypocritical either.  Just a douche with no life.

meechiganman

October 24th, 2010 at 11:49 AM ^

because Ferentz had a senior moment and burnt his last timeout prematurely. Sure hope Iowa has enough left in the tank for MooU. They should, as I fully expect their dline to dominate moou's crappy oline. Just a matter of time before their exposed.