A look back at 2007
Well, user Jake Blues referenced Brian's 2007 MSU postgame in another thread, and I went and read through the whole thing - here are some bits and pieces that would have made me laugh manaically at Sparty's inadequacies back then but now make me go :'(
(In response to Hoyer's quote "Let's put it this way, if anybody hadn't taken this personal up until this point, it's personal now," Hoyer said. "It just shows what kind of class he has. "Sooner or later, the little brother, you want to put us that way, you get pushed around enough, the little brother fights back and kicks the other brother's ass.")
Oh, now it's personal? You mean it's unlike all those other games when a host of kids who never even got looked at by Michigan (save three or four per year) played their instate rival and then immediately collapsed afterward? Oh shit. We are in serious trouble now. It's personal. I am liquidating my assets and moving to Tahiti, as Michigan will never beat Michigan State again.
Well, if not for the Denard/Dileo/Gibbons miracle... Oy. Anyone know what plane tickets to Tahiti are going for these days?
I know, I know. You're probably wondering "what radical new direction will this knight errant take the hallowed Spartan program?" Well, let me tell you: every year Michigan State will jump out to a fast start by beating a bunch of awful nonconference teams. When they play at Notre Dame, they will win. Everyone will get all hyped up for the Michigan game, which they will lose. On the off chance they do not lose, they will arrange to lose to Indiana or Northwestern or some such team to restore the cosmic balance. After the Michigan game they will collapse wholesale. Sometimes they will go to a bowl in Detroit. Other times they will stay home and cry softly into their BEET MICHIGAN cardigans. They will never, ever go to the Rose Bowl, and every year MGoBlog will start its Michigan State preview the same way. Yes, friends, times are a-changin' in East Lansing.
Now, please don't take this the wrong way - I love Brian and the blog and was basically laughing right alongside everyone at the time... but now I am ready to cast out my demons and admit we were guilty of hubris. May the football gods accept my repentance and have at least a tiny smidgen of mercy on Michigan Football this Saturday.
Anyway, Go Blue!
EDIT: Added link
October 20th, 2014 at 9:46 PM ^
October 20th, 2014 at 10:55 PM ^
FWIW, I've also read that 49-3 was payback for Izzo leaving the starters in on Senior Day in 2000. No idea if it's true or not.
October 21st, 2014 at 1:04 PM ^
Doubtful, given that we played them in 2000 and won 14-0. We wouldn't wait two years to run up the score.
October 20th, 2014 at 8:29 PM ^
"You're probably wondering "what radical new direction will this knight errant take the hallowed Spartan program?" Well, let me tell you: every year Michigan State will jump out to a fast start by beating a bunch of awful nonconference teams. When they play at Notre Dame, they will win. Everyone will get all hyped up for the Michigan game, which they will lose. On the off chance they do not lose, they will arrange to lose to Indiana or Northwestern or some such team to restore the cosmic balance. After the Michigan game they will collapse wholesale."
This actually sounds a lot like UM 2009-2013... how fucking ironic.
October 20th, 2014 at 8:24 PM ^
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October 20th, 2014 at 9:45 PM ^
October 20th, 2014 at 9:49 PM ^
It was basically the shittiest, douchiest thing I've ever read, especially in retrospect.
It's nice to see that Brian's become a bit more level-headed as the years have gone by.
October 20th, 2014 at 10:38 PM ^
I would not be too hard on him. Yes he snarked at everything that moved back then, which could get really old.
But imagine if Indiana started talking some trash about how they were going to dominate in the conference in the future. Our first response would not be restraint. Or when Purdue actually tried it with Danny Hope. Our reaction was to laugh, and rightly so.
You only know what you know at the time. Your only reaction can't be to assume that every team is going to turn into Alabama just to be safe.
October 20th, 2014 at 10:30 PM ^
Dantonio turned it around night and day from JLS. In scheme, in attitude, even in Sparty, No! He gave that team an edge and some enduring composure.
He was a perfect fit for that program. Shows you what a coaching change can do.
October 20th, 2014 at 11:01 PM ^
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October 20th, 2014 at 10:52 PM ^
This is the best comment on this thread.
WE did this. This is not something Dantonio did to us.
He got their heads out of their asses and fielded a competitive program, but he still would not be able to walk all over mid-90's Michgian. We're the ones that allowed that.
And we're the ones that need to fix it.
October 20th, 2014 at 11:52 PM ^
October 21st, 2014 at 12:39 AM ^
It would be nice to have some more guys with the amount of heart that Hart had. Nowadays the players are groomed to say things like "wins and losses are just a statistic. "
October 21st, 2014 at 10:22 AM ^
There is this
http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/2238462-kirk-cousins-has-nfl-futur…
They are going to kill us.
October 21st, 2014 at 12:26 PM ^
$3,019 from DTW to Tahiti, per expedia...
October 21st, 2014 at 1:09 PM ^
October 21st, 2014 at 3:01 PM ^
Guilty of hubris? Who isn't when they're winning? Compare Mike Hart repeating what they had been quoted saying the week before ("if they think that, I'm gonna think that") to a team that plants a flag in someone else's field. Come on. Don't buy into the revisionist narrative.