MSU Linebacker Jon Reschke likely done for the season with foot injury
September 27th, 2016 at 10:10 AM ^
Jeez, sounds like a rebuilding year in East Lansing.
September 27th, 2016 at 10:29 AM ^
Sounds like the place is crumbling, there's a shortage of materials and manpower on the horizon, and the general contractor is about to walk off the job.
September 27th, 2016 at 10:37 AM ^
Not necessarily. I wouldn't be surprised if they start playing all of their young buys to build for 2017 and 2018. Hell with how pathetic their QB is, I wouldn't be surprised if they start a freshman vs. UM.
Crumbling would be losing to Rutgers at home.
September 27th, 2016 at 10:43 AM ^
That's exactly what they're doing. Austin Robertson and Josh King, their two big DLine prospects, both played in garbage time last week. They're burning redshirts to get those guys ready sooner rather than later.
September 27th, 2016 at 11:26 AM ^
September 27th, 2016 at 11:42 AM ^
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September 27th, 2016 at 10:45 AM ^
I disagree here... Dantoni has never done so, going to youth... on the contrary, he reshirts everyone, and then plays lineups of 4th and 5th (and 6th) year seniors... this is how he beat us, while Hoke was burning redshirts... 23- 24 year olds vs 19-20 year olds.
September 27th, 2016 at 10:52 AM ^
may have no choice now. Reschke and Bullough are the glue of that defense. McDowell is the biggest playmaker but those guys make that D go. They could have contended somewhat with some good bounces even after the loss to Wisconsin if O'Conner could rebound and be minimally competent. However, the Reschke news would likely be DOOM. It would not surprise me if D'armantano seriously played everybody and rotated like crazy at all positions, including QB, if this news is accurate.
September 27th, 2016 at 11:01 AM ^
D'armantano , plus 1.
September 27th, 2016 at 10:58 AM ^
the strategy may be changing, which is what smart managers do. Think we will beat them this year, though.
September 27th, 2016 at 11:26 AM ^
We're going to grind them up into tiny, little, lighter fluid flavored bitchcakes.
This is the year to break their will.
September 27th, 2016 at 11:08 AM ^
Last game he burned 5 redshirts, so although I agree with you on his normal behavior, this year it's all bodies on board!!!
September 27th, 2016 at 11:52 AM ^
Dantonio redshirts a lot of players because they just aren't ready to play. When he gets recruits that we wanted or at a similar level, they rarely redshirt, OL excepted. Reschke is an example of that. As his recruiting classes have improved, he's redshirting fewer players.
September 27th, 2016 at 4:38 PM ^
September 27th, 2016 at 10:47 AM ^
Only their chips are crumbling...
September 27th, 2016 at 10:39 AM ^
cmon man, steriods have side effects..... you should know that !!!!
September 27th, 2016 at 10:42 AM ^
i have seen a few folks post that, and it wouldn't shock me, but is there more than speculation about that?
September 27th, 2016 at 10:45 AM ^
According to Jeff Moss, one of the guys who had the Harbaugh scoop early (albeit a dude who appears to be a bit mentally unsteady), Max Bullough had to sit out of the Rose Bowl because of a fight. Apparently he and a former H.S. teammate got drunk, got into a fight, and Bullough absolutely destroyed the kid's face. Bullough's parents asked Dantonio to suspend him for the Rose Bowl and managed to keep the kid hushed by paying his medical bills.
September 27th, 2016 at 10:49 AM ^
story. not sure it has to do with juice, but there's more there.
September 27th, 2016 at 10:55 AM ^
September 27th, 2016 at 11:00 AM ^
The attacks on the Bulloughs on this blog is tiresome. By all accounts, Riley is a great leader, extremely hard worker and a grinder who has worked himself into a big time player. There's no evidence he's used streroids. He's the captain at a very legitimate program and one of the best linebackers in the Big Ten.
This also seems like very silly speculation on Max. I don't know all the details, but what I've heard is something entirely different than a fight.
I really hate Michigan State - but baseless, personal attacks on their players is annoying.
September 27th, 2016 at 11:02 AM ^
and the Bulloughs sitting in a tree.......
September 27th, 2016 at 11:06 AM ^
I giggled
September 27th, 2016 at 11:59 AM ^
just sayin', there's a bit more there. they are well known and a very unique family - much of that is very cool stuff, but some of that is more on the wild side.
September 27th, 2016 at 12:09 PM ^
I replied to your comment cuz it was the last one - not specifically trying to call you out. I wanted to express that it's annoying that anytime someone mentions Riley or Max on this board there is an immediate steroid reference.
September 27th, 2016 at 11:49 AM ^
First comes Roids then HGH
Then suspensions from the football games ..... sorry couldn't resist
September 27th, 2016 at 11:16 AM ^
You know what ends speculation? Telling people why Max missed the Rose Bowl. Obviously, they're under no obligation to do so. But when you've got nothing to hide, why not just tell people the reason?
Also, you know who else was a great leader who helped his troops win many battles to take back home territory?
September 27th, 2016 at 11:20 AM ^
Snow?
September 27th, 2016 at 11:19 AM ^
So when Harbaugh refuses to discloses suspension reasons, he's "protecting the kids privacy", and the "whole world doesn't need to know kids mistakes", but with Dantonio, they're hiding something?
September 27th, 2016 at 11:23 AM ^
You're putting quotes around those phrases like I've used them.
September 27th, 2016 at 11:29 AM ^
is unquestionably an odd situation. He was not suspended for any NCAA violation, and if the fight was the reason, "drunk football player beats up another drunk football player" is not exactly groundbreaking news. He would likely be sat for the Rose Bowl, but it would not seem to disqualify him from NFL interest which it seemingly did. Further, regardless of whether he "paid the medical bills," if this was a serious beatdown of a possibly (at some point) unconscious or defenseless person, the kid would have gone to the hospital and there would have been criminal charges. Further, if there was a "cover-up" and there were no criminal charges because he was a big shot football player, why sit him at all for the Rose Bowl to create speculation as to why he was in trouble?
The Bullough thing does remain a significant mystery.
September 27th, 2016 at 11:49 AM ^
Give credit where credit is due. MSU has kept that story nailed shut and nobody has spoken a word about it since it broke. You've got to know there are multiple people aware of what realy went down and nobody is talking.
That's impressive. Shit, a sitting US President couldnt keep people from blabbing about something that happened under his watch and had to resign over it.
September 27th, 2016 at 11:25 AM ^
You really hate MSU, do you? Huh....
September 27th, 2016 at 11:37 AM ^
Yes, I do. Losing to them last year was so utterly miserable. The sparty yahoos I went to high school with were blowing up my phone with texts for days and days. I had to take a facebook haitus for a good month, and I still get the highlight sent to me or tagged to me every once in a while.
I had my gloating days during my time at UofM going 4-0, but man this stretch has been miserable for so many of us. I even sat in my Mike Hart #20 jersey in EL in 2005 and got shoved down 3 rows of bleachers and spat on - but singing the Victors in the concourse walking out of the stadium sure felt great.
September 27th, 2016 at 2:13 PM ^
ohheydude1 is a troll. Send to Bolivia.
September 27th, 2016 at 10:54 AM ^
I'd go with mentally unhinged.
September 27th, 2016 at 1:11 PM ^
Sounds like roid rage to me.
September 27th, 2016 at 10:46 AM ^
September 27th, 2016 at 11:41 AM ^
I have it on good authority (read: medical staff at MSU) that it was indeed steroids that kept Max Bullough out of their Rose Bowl.
September 27th, 2016 at 11:46 AM ^
Same 'ole Sparty.
September 27th, 2016 at 11:56 AM ^
If this is the case, those people are as reckless as they are stupid
September 27th, 2016 at 12:07 PM ^
I always have a shred of doubt when I hear people citing "medical staff" sources for stories like these. Are these sources really risking their careers by discussing private medical information just so they can prove that they are in the know.?
September 27th, 2016 at 12:16 PM ^
Is a disclosure of a drug test really a HIPAA issues? It's not a medical treatment or anything, and the results aren't inherently confidential between the player and the doctor. Plus, I thought athletes generally waive their HIPAA protections, at least to some degree?
I also know enough medical professionals to know that there are plenty of loose lips in the profession.
September 28th, 2016 at 12:23 AM ^
They do not have a general waiver of their privacy rights under HIPAA. During the Shane Morris concussion debacle he signed a specific release form before the University put out its statement. See Endzone, p. 357.
September 27th, 2016 at 12:25 PM ^
In this case, it isn't private medical information being shared. The medical staff are just connected to the program enough to know stuff like this, and even though they are obviously MSU fans, let the reason Bullough didn't play be known. The person I am connected to will remain anonymous, but they had absolutely nothing to gain by relaying this information. It was transmitted with an air of "dumb jock" behind it, and somewhat befuddled why someone would take the risk of using steroids.
September 27th, 2016 at 12:28 PM ^
September 27th, 2016 at 1:43 PM ^
Yes, there's a huge portion of our population that are incapable of shutting their mouths. They gossip about everything. Yes, even grown adults.
September 28th, 2016 at 8:25 PM ^
September 27th, 2016 at 10:42 AM ^
+1 to you