Line for JH football signature 7x longer than Urban Meyer's @ B1G Media Day

In Friday's Chicago Tribune, a local writer asked Conner Cook how felt about OSU/Michigan getting a lot more attention than MSU at Media Days and he said , "It's nothing different.  You win a Big 10 championship, you win a Rose Bowl, you still don't get the respect.  It's what we've dealt with at Michigan State." (link).  It's really astonishing to me the Rodney Dangerfield culture that Mark has actually CULTIVATED.  You'd think high-level athletes could find another motivation.

I don't blame him for being a bit miffed because, well, this is the best run MSU has really had in most of our lifetimes and it constantly second-fiddle to what goes on at UM and OSU.  And to be realistic, whatever window MSU had to really establish themselves as a nationally-elite program probably closed when OSU hired Meyer and UM signed Harbaugh.  A healthy UM and OSU are typically going to be better than MSU, and we've already seen that MSU's best efforts really can't compete with OSU in the conference.  Maybe MSU keeps it going for a year or two more at a high level, but with UM seemingly turning the corner along with PSU recruiting well, you have to figure their time as the #2 team in the conference is over.