MSU Holiday Bowl Rings

Submitted by Tyler1495 on

Apparently MSU players and coaches received prestigious Holiday Bowl rings with the score of the MSU vs UofM score on the side.

Is this trolling, petty, or an obsession that Mark D has?

https://twitter.com/JosiahScott7/status/1005067772970315776

ToledoWolverine

June 9th, 2018 at 4:05 AM ^

Seems pretty lame to me, his shtick is tired. We get it guy, you hate UM. But it plays to all the rape enablers and Dog fuckers in East Lansing so we have to eat it until things go different on the field.

yossarians tree

June 9th, 2018 at 1:56 PM ^

After all the bad PR for having the historically worst mass-rape debacle on their campus for two decades, they are still this tone deaf??? Not even to mention the sex harrassing medical school dean and the dog-fucking professor. 

They clearly do not have any idea how pathetic and petty they appear to everyone else. I still maintain that all the Michigan hate at the hollow black core of Spartan Swill is the animus that drives the blindness to rape culture on that campus. Apparently beating Michigan at football is still more important to them. 

Hang 7 touchdowns on them and go for two.

blueday

June 9th, 2018 at 7:01 AM ^

sparties spart.  Anytime they accomplish anything, its STILL (not SWILL) always about Michigan.

GarMoe

June 9th, 2018 at 7:21 AM ^

What's the issue, exactly?  Can you sum it up in a couple sentences or must we all click the link and work at it?

starrmander

June 9th, 2018 at 7:32 AM ^

He mentions the issue in the OP. They got rings for winning the Holiday Bowl, which is like getting a participation trophy for a game no one cares about. And instead of putting the score from the Holiday Bowl on their rings, they put the score from the UM vs MSU game on their rings.

Honestly, MSU should forget the farce of getting a bowl ring and just get rings if they beat Michigan.

MaineGoBlue

June 9th, 2018 at 7:30 AM ^

When they’re older they’ll look at the ring and say “wow that season was a raging success, we won a 4th tier bowl game AND a beat Michigan”. If we beat them and don’t make the B1G championship we still see it as a failure, they obviously see it much differently and I’m perfectly fine with that.

mickblue

June 9th, 2018 at 7:39 AM ^

Why didn't they have 36-69-5 on their rings. The all time record vs Michigan. I can't imagine Michigan putting anything pertaining to MSU on anything. That is because we are not obsessed with them. They are not significant enough to ever have them cross our minds without prompting.

LSAClassOf2000

June 9th, 2018 at 8:09 AM ^

I know people have walked away from the "little brother" label due to recent on-field performance, but if there were a hint that it isn't about a game but about their entire state of mind regarding the University Of Michigan, it is this act right here. The rings should celebrate a minor bowl victory, but instead make a dig at us - inferiority complex? Check. 

maize-blue

June 9th, 2018 at 8:44 AM ^

We need to beat MSU in a very bad way this season. If JH can't get this team up for this game and UM loses yet again with better talent then I will consider Mork a better coach.

evenyoubrutus

June 9th, 2018 at 8:50 AM ^

Kind of flies in the face of their claims that 1) Harbaugh is a terrible coach and beating Michigan isn't much of an accomplishment and 2) that it "isn't a rivalry anymore"

brad

June 9th, 2018 at 9:28 AM ^

It's pure Dantonio fixation.  No one else has ever had the combination of insecurity with and dominance over Michigan.   Please start beating MSU regularly M!

Wolverine Devotee

June 9th, 2018 at 9:31 AM ^

Holiday Bowl rings alone is sad enough. Who does that that's not a group of 5 team? I don't even think some of them do it.

Perkis-Size Me

June 9th, 2018 at 9:31 AM ^

Dantonio and Co. hate Michigan more than they love themselves. Doing this does seem a little tacky, but it’s been working for them and they’ve beaten us 8 of the last 10 years so what can we really say or do about it?

M-Dog

June 9th, 2018 at 9:53 AM ^

I gotta give credit where it is due.  He plays that shtick masterfully.  He's found a niche and he maximizes it.  

Good for him, really.

If you're a little brother program like Washington State, Oklahoma State, Michigan State, etc. you need a niche . . . quirky coach, oil money, chip-on-the-shoulder . . . something.

What would you do as the coach of middle tier program that otherwise lives in the shadows?

theintegral

June 9th, 2018 at 11:12 AM ^

One of my favorite posts from all time is an article from Black Heart Gold Pants about new MSU uniforms that were actually redesigned UofM uniforms:

https://www.blackheartgoldpants.com/2012/5/30/3051587/pro-combat-goes-b1g-michigan-state-edition

in which it is stated: 

When reached for comment about the new jerseys, Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio gritted his teeth, glared, and calmly took a nitroglycerin tablet from his shirt pocket. He then swallowed the tablet along with the coal-black rage he felt at this latest and most egregious slight, sending both down to the furnace of hate deep in his soul which drives him in his unrelenting quest for college football dominance no matter the cost.

 

 

bronxblue

June 9th, 2018 at 1:10 PM ^

The fact that this comes a year after four of their players were kicked off the team for sexually assaulting a student and the whole Larry Nassar fallout, and they still think it's relevant to put the UM-MSU score on their rings is hilarious.  I know I'm supposed to hate ND and OSU as much, but my distaste for MSU burns a billion times hotter than towards any other of those programs.

Tuebor

June 9th, 2018 at 1:34 PM ^

Is it dumb?  Yes.

 

We just need to start beating them consistently again.  Feels like they have all the mojo, karma, luck, or whatever you want to call it in the rivalry right now.  

njvictor

June 9th, 2018 at 4:10 PM ^

I think we gotta cut them some slack. Can you really blame them for fixating on us given the dumpster fire that is Michigan State right now?

JWG Wolverine

June 9th, 2018 at 5:50 PM ^

OSU's Gold Pants (while I hate them) actually at least make sense to me.

Why are they putting the score of the Michigan game on their Holiday Bowl rings?

If they care about that game so much, at least put it on a separate ring and not something that commemorates an almost entirely unrelated game.

Kevin13

June 11th, 2018 at 5:48 PM ^

Wouldn't it make more sense to put the score of the Holiday Bowl on the ring?  Then he wonders why we call them little brother. Something no one from UM is going to see or care about he tries to take a dig at them. It really just looks pathetic.