GR Press: Hero D'Antonio a "Coach, Mentor, Parent" of Criminals
http://www.mlive.com/spartans/index.ssf/2009/12/spartans_mark_dantonio_…
Overall, I can't disagree 100% with Beardsley's overall point, however, a little heavy on the savior/hero tone, don't you think? It screams of "D'Antonio IS Family Values"
At the end, he states that "Jenette and Winston made D'Antonio look silly." I find the choice of the word "silly" to be a little light-hearted considering Winston is a convicted criminal that coach D let on the team because he had zero upper-classman depth at running back. I think "stupid" and/or "irresponsible" would of been a better word choice.
D'Antonio gets flat out embarrassed by 12 of his players and he looks a little "silly."
Fair-and-Balanced. Fail
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:25 AM ^
hey let's talk about MSU & the Free Press.
again.
December 22nd, 2009 at 11:25 AM ^
This is the GR Press, not the Freep. Not a shock since GR is a pretty MSU heavy area.
Should I have known that this type of incident would be spun as a positive toward Dantonio?
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 AM ^
don't want to get killed on the board for this, but is the cadillac ad on the left killing anyone? i love the high-end sponsors, but that thing keeps flying across the screen and i can't read a lot of the post.
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:35 AM ^
I get HP printers and Whole Foods. I guess they know their audience demographics.
So, I'm not seeing the ad causing you the problem.
December 22nd, 2009 at 11:02 AM ^
I've run into this same problem (vertical Cadillac Ad positioned horizontally across page) but for some reason only on my home PC and only using Firefox. Sorry I haven't found a solution yet.
December 22nd, 2009 at 2:07 PM ^
this is what i was asking about, where the ad flies out over half of the screen adn the post, so that it obstructs the text. its happening right now. i guess its a firefox thing.
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:00 PM ^
About 50% of the time it shows up vertically which isn't an issue. Sometimes it looks like this:
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:24 PM ^
A little creepy since I recently used my Amex at Lowe's.
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:26 PM ^
Cadillac? I'm not sure I've ever gotten a Cadillac ad on this site. I get mostly sports betting ads.
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:54 AM ^
I see a Ford F-150 and it is beautiful.
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:58 AM ^
It had a picture of some babe in a bikini. Can't say I was mad at the picture. Today the sports betting is replaced by Kobe. Eh.
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:48 PM ^
That and a Tamiflu ad for me.
December 22nd, 2009 at 11:16 AM ^
Is this an article about the Knicks coach?
December 22nd, 2009 at 11:43 AM ^
Nothing new. Dantonio and his jawline = good. RR and his "document shredding" and "sweatshops" = bad. It is probably overkill to keep complaining about this here at mgoblog, but the newspapers are nothing if not a sucker for an easy narrative. Just wait until MSU struggles for a couple of years - and it will happen - and see how many people rush to protect Dantonio. We saw the wolves come out when RR struggled; the same will happen in East Lansing.
December 22nd, 2009 at 11:55 AM ^
They were 6-6, or had 1 more win than Michigan. That's struggling to me, yet the Michigan papers love him and think he is a God amongst men.
Is it just that MSU has such low aspirations and morals?
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:17 PM ^
I'm gonna go with "yes"...
December 22nd, 2009 at 4:32 PM ^
This is struggling to elite programs like UM, OSU, USC, OU, etc. Before Dantonio showed up, MSU failed to record consecutive winning records (regular season) since 1989-1990, and their best streak was probably 1995-2000, when they went 6-5, 6-6, 7-5, 6-6, 10-2. So yeah, three consecutive seasons for 6 or more victories might get him into the hall of fame, or at least the hype video, at MSU.
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:19 PM ^
Yeah it gets kind of annoying living here in GR where there are mostly State fans and a lot of them are ignorant even about their own team.
December 22nd, 2009 at 2:00 PM ^
is a bunch of crap. First, the M football program would have gotten slayed in the Freep (screw 'em) for a Randall Hall-type incident. Second, any football program in America would have released Winston immediately after the first incident. I'm for giving people second chances but D'Antonio needed to think of the possible future harm that could be done. People got beat up and hurt for no good reason in the Randall Hall incident. Finally, I'm waiting to see what D'Antonio does if any of the players get convicted of criminal charges. Will he suspend them longer than just a Bowl game? Will he give them a "second chance"? Will he throw them off the team? He needs to be careful. A lot of peolple will be watching to see how he handles this going forward.
December 22nd, 2009 at 2:40 PM ^
MSU makes it so easy to make fun of them sometimes.
It's like a weekly thing. Is there something in the water in East Lansing?