Jim Comparoni blames Jim Harbaugh for Tunnel Incident
Jim Comparoni and Paul Konyndyk gave on on field post game summary for the Spartanmag.com last night. I watched the video this morning and was shocked how they placed much of the blame on Jim Harbaugh for not controlling his players. Here is a clip that was posted to Twitter and the video was since taken down.
https://twitter.com/mjoebean/status/1586800194200522755?s=46&t=3RphXKuOLFXlHhHC0F-xQw
Who was the Spartan journalist that tweeted something about purposely hurting a UM player? Was it Jabrill or Gardner?
October 30th, 2022 at 4:18 PM ^
Again, people will displace blame and contort any situation so that they don’t have to change their convictions. It’s a lot easier to say: “this was all them,” than to admit your team is a bunch of criminals. Even though there’s objective evidence right in front of you. Denial is amazing.
October 30th, 2022 at 5:10 PM ^
MSU Logic:
1. Harbaugh ran a trick play
2. UM was jawing all afternoon
3. UM player shouldn’t be in the tunnel
MSU Solution:
1. Gang jump the UM player and assault him
October 30th, 2022 at 6:35 PM ^
Some of this goes beyond MSU to a societal problem we have where certain people think words or any minor disrespect warrants escalation to violence. I mean how many stories have there been about people literally being shot over the stupidest of stuff? Clearly many of these MSU defenders are revealing themselves as the type of people who think escalation to violence is ok if you are disrespected.
October 30th, 2022 at 9:19 PM ^
The hubbub over the trick play strikes me as much ado about nothing. Even Blackledge commented "I don't like that play". Yet Dantonio had his team drive for scores in garbage time because of Disrespekt.
October 30th, 2022 at 5:19 PM ^
It’s like people from the South defending their ancestors who fought in the Civil War.
October 30th, 2022 at 6:57 PM ^
I disagree!! I lived in the south most of my life, and I think it's more like those in the south, whose ancestors were in Europe during the Civil War, defending the confederate flag and monuments as their heritage. Pathetic, idiotic, ignorant, and having horse shit for brains.
October 30th, 2022 at 7:46 PM ^
Except you are judging historical people by today's standards. Not reasonable.
October 30th, 2022 at 8:30 PM ^
Careful, that's a pretty slippery slope that winds up excusing a lot of terrible behavior.
October 30th, 2022 at 10:23 PM ^
We must never excuse any terrible behavior. Everyone, from any point in history, must be held to today’s standards because this is the sanest time the world has ever known.
October 30th, 2022 at 5:21 PM ^
If we didn't have abundant video evidence that Jim was running around corralling players and keeping them apart at the end of the game while Tuck was tuckin' and runnin'. . . an argument like Phoney Maroney's would probably be easier to sell.
In the end, who was beating the crap out of who will rightly be the clarifying criterion, though. They can talk all the shit they want.
October 30th, 2022 at 4:19 PM ^
The difference in media coverage between the two sides is incredible. Michigan beat writers are mostly favorable to UM, sure, but they try to maintain some veneer of impartiality - and will call the program out when it needs to be done.
MSU beat writers are just out-and-out cheerleaders.
October 30th, 2022 at 4:38 PM ^
It continues to astonish me the way Sparty's media seems to emulate the fanbase so much. It's as if they pull random message board fanboys off RCMB and Reddit and give them jobs as professional journalists or sports talk radio talking heads.
Even the ones who rise to the top- we have guys like Desmond Howard, Adam Schefter, Rich Eisen. Heck even OSU has Herbstreit and Spielman among others.
MSU has Jamele Hill.
October 30th, 2022 at 5:20 PM ^
Can't wait for Eisen's show tomorrow to see what he has to say
October 30th, 2022 at 5:30 PM ^
they did, have you ever seen Hondo Carpenter ?
October 30th, 2022 at 6:01 PM ^
He covers my Raiders and I troll him all the time .. I’m pretty sure he will block me soon enough
October 30th, 2022 at 4:56 PM ^
Sparty is on an island. The entire country saw that video, and there are no opposing viewpoints. It was battery, and there is nothing that warrants that. Even a provocational physical attack (which absolutely didn't go down) wouldn't justify the group beating that took place.
Players are at least getting charged with a felony for this. It'll probably get pleaded down to a misdemeanor, but this isn't an instance of a team blowing an event out of proportions. The scale of the shitshow is available for everyone to evaluate and we've all reached the same conclusion.
October 30th, 2022 at 5:31 PM ^
Hopefully, the police investigation and any charges will go through the AAPD and Washtenaw County courts. That will be done fairly. We all know what would happen if the Sparty homers over in the East Landfill police department handled this. Massive whitewashing and a few meaningless slaps on the wrist.
October 30th, 2022 at 5:52 PM ^
Happened there, no jurisdiction in East Lansing.
October 30th, 2022 at 6:05 PM ^
Several player numbers are quite visible on the videos.
One video you see #’s 15, 18 & 19 with their names, they were assaulting McBurrows, There were more but that will be a frame by frame to see who was taking part and who was bystanders.
The helmet swinging in Gemon Green, that was clear the one player but I couldn’t I’d the player swinging his helmet….
October 30th, 2022 at 6:35 PM ^
You mean they won't be charged with "seducing an unmarried woman" or whatever the hell that was?
October 30th, 2022 at 5:51 PM ^
No opposing viewpoints? Unsurprisingly you need to check out 11W. Their hatred for UM is equal to if not greater than Sparty’s and therefore juicy rationalizations about all things UM are always forthcoming.
October 30th, 2022 at 6:37 PM ^
I don’t disagree with this, and I think the overall explanation in this article is clearly one-sided and pretty ridiculous, but honestly some of it is accurate. For multiple reasons involving multiple people and instances, these programs despise each other way too much. And it only seems to escalate, there is never “any air let out of the balloon.” I think these teams should continue to play each other, but I think University presidents, ADs, and coaches need to meet this off-season and figure out how to cool this shit off. Something really bad could happen. Last night was bad enough. It needs to stop.
It doesn’t at all justify what happened, but honestly McCarthy does not need to say all of that “no mercy” stuff in his quote before the game. And Harbaugh should be telling him not to say things like that. I could see a major brawl happening in this game soon and that would be really, really bad. Most of the values Harbaugh teaches are really good and the right things to teach, but he really hates Michigan State and has a bit of a blind spot for it and I’m not sure he is passing on the right ideas to the players. It is food for thought.
October 30th, 2022 at 10:25 PM ^
Saying you want to show no mercy to a rival in no way, shape, or form is the cause of this situation. People talk about destroying their opponents all of the time… on the field. The inability to separate on-field activities from off-field is something you might expect from a small child who doesn’t understand that TV isn’t real life. Not from an adult that is being paid to attend and represent a university. There are no taunts that can justify that level of violence.
We have had one tunnel for many decades without anything like this. Similarly, taunting and trash talk has existed for decades with this happening. The only difference here is that the “little brother” moniker is so accurate that it shook them to their core. They could deal with it when they were winning, but now Harbaugh is taking that away and they have nothing left.
October 31st, 2022 at 1:27 AM ^
You are trying to rationalize a bad behavior. Violence is never OK. Players talk smack. That is where it needs to stop. Not taking a helmet and hitting a guy while another guy holding the guy.
Put yourself in that player's place and see how you would feel. JFC
October 30th, 2022 at 6:51 PM ^
The real question is will the thugs involved be kicked off the team or will this reprehensible behavior be rewarded with a slap on the wrist.
October 30th, 2022 at 7:29 PM ^
Was talking to my best friend who is a DA. He’s not a Michigan fan though and very impartial. I asked him if this video showed up on his desk would he charge these players. He said all would get assaulted charges and the guy swinging his helmet would get felony assault charges with a deadly weapon. He thinks the AA police should be involved and it should happen soon
October 30th, 2022 at 10:26 PM ^
I don’t think anyone will be charged with a crime, but the world would be a better place if everyone who commits a crime wore a jersey with their name and number on the back.
October 30th, 2022 at 7:42 PM ^
Graham Couch and Chris Solari are just straight up MSU slappies. They're unironically tweeting out the same things that MSU fan accounts are
October 30th, 2022 at 8:55 PM ^
"The difference in media coverage between the two sides is incredible."
A perfect analog to the larger world.
October 30th, 2022 at 4:19 PM ^
Negged you for bringing that tool into the conversation. He is a slappy’s slappy. King douche.
October 30th, 2022 at 4:25 PM ^
This. Stop giving dumb people a platform.
October 30th, 2022 at 4:29 PM ^
Hear that Elon?
October 30th, 2022 at 4:34 PM ^
Name checks out.
October 30th, 2022 at 4:54 PM ^
Re-enable banned accounts, you say?
October 30th, 2022 at 5:12 PM ^
I prefer the stupid people out themselves. Let this video continue to play. We all now know he's an idiot.
October 30th, 2022 at 6:36 PM ^
If this screenshot is real and the same guy he's far worse than a douche or a moron. He's genuine excrement, total garbage. How does he have a job? Unreal 
October 30th, 2022 at 7:10 PM ^
"Journalist"
October 30th, 2022 at 7:57 PM ^
“Cuntface” is more like it.
October 30th, 2022 at 8:14 PM ^
He also had 5 upvotes. Smh
October 30th, 2022 at 4:20 PM ^
I'm sure he'll accuse Gemon Green of vandlaizing a Spartan helmet with his head.
October 30th, 2022 at 4:20 PM ^
I think they got around to admitting that what State’s players did was wrong, but they spent about ten minutes explaining why “Jim Harbaugh is a child” as pretext to addressing the assault last night
October 30th, 2022 at 4:40 PM ^
“Your honor, they were asking for it! Because their coach is annoying! We HaD to put them in their place, what other choice did we have?!?”
October 30th, 2022 at 6:13 PM ^
For every out of bounds thing Jim Harbaugh has done in his coaching career, I can name 5 things of equal or worse caliber committed by Dantonio, but he was a coach of ethics and integrity with these Spartan mouthpieces.
It’s really infuriating to see people like this besmirch the profession of journalism with this despicable brand of hackery.
October 30th, 2022 at 10:06 PM ^
It’s really infuriating to see people like this besmirch the profession of journalism with this despicable brand of hackery.
I agree, but I think the profession of journalism was besmirched by hackery long before this incident.
October 30th, 2022 at 7:44 PM ^
There is a very small percentage of MSU fans who have said "what MSU players did was wrong" without including a "but" where they blame Green and McBurrows for getting assaulted
October 30th, 2022 at 4:20 PM ^
Just as well the hyperlink doesn't work. Don't give this guy clicks/views.
October 30th, 2022 at 4:21 PM ^
His name is strikingly similar to jibroni - very appropriate
October 30th, 2022 at 4:21 PM ^
Refusing to take responsibility or to be accountable is what breeds the kind of ugly culture that's at Michigan State. They have no one but themselves to blame.
October 30th, 2022 at 4:54 PM ^
Perfectly stated. The type of goonish behavior displayed by Michigan State football players last night is just the latest in a pattern of egregious, violent, even criminal misconduct. Patterns like this don't develop in a vacuum. They develop in a culture where perpetrators are not held accountable, and often times incubated from any public criticism.
Michigan State will garner more respect from Michigan and the national sports media when they behave in a more respectable manner. Until then, you act like a clowns, you get treated like a clown.
October 30th, 2022 at 4:21 PM ^
This should get taken down. Trash sources don't deserve more than a comment in another thread, maybe not even that much.