No wonder MSU is MSU
You lose to Nebraska, and your DC has to bring up Michigan
Narduzzi on Martinez: "He's faster than Denard, even though he thinks he's as fast as (Usain) Bolt. (Martinez is) flat-out faster."
edit: I guess in some fairness, he was asked to compare Martinez to Robinson. But to bring up the Bolt reference is just plain douchebag.
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:48 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:18 PM ^
I had to update it twice today. Once for the game, then again for the postgame tweeting.
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:59 PM ^
In fairness, Bell was far from the only Spartan to make an ass of himself on Twitter. Someone on the RCMB found that about 10-15 players had tweeted angry thoughts.
November 4th, 2012 at 9:20 AM ^
I'll cut the other guys some slack for blaming the Nebraska loss on the refs in the heat of the moment. Not the best attitude, but understandable. But blaming four losses on the refs? That's worthy of special disdain.
November 4th, 2012 at 11:45 AM ^
MSU has also won some close games this season - Boise St., Indiana and Wisconsin. Even their game against EMU was up for grabs going into the fourth quarter. Is Bell going to give a special shout out to the refs for those games?
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:31 PM ^
That is fantastic.
November 4th, 2012 at 7:33 AM ^
November 4th, 2012 at 9:57 AM ^
Somewhere, 98% of European futbol players are shaking their heads (while the other 2% fell to the turf and writhed in pain from the impact of the shake).
November 4th, 2012 at 9:51 AM ^
Simply fantastic. 60 minutes of unnecessary prancing.
November 4th, 2012 at 3:43 PM ^
It seems to be getting national attention in a Yahoo! Sports feature:
Michigan State’s Johnny Adams with a fantastic flop looking for a penalty (VIDEO LINK)
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:49 PM ^
Both have beaten you this year. So, there's that.
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:19 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:00 PM ^
Greg Mattison, or almost anyone else with a hint of integrity, would have answered that question with something like, "They're both great players in their own right."
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:27 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:49 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:50 PM ^
Haters gonna hate.... That loss in October still must hurt.
November 4th, 2012 at 5:35 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:51 PM ^
Does it really matter who's faster when both of them beat you?
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:54 PM ^
I won't post the twitters from their players, but lets just say they think they aren't the reason they lost this game or any other for that matter. LeVeon Bell especially...
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:51 PM ^
no accountability, no leadership
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:59 PM ^
Why the hell is everyone making a big deal about Denard vs. Usain? It was an inoccuous statement said for fun yet everyone is treating it's like some big call-out challenge. I get Narduzzi bringing it up because he's obsessed, but Lolo Jones had to say something about it on Gameday too. Good lord.
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:23 PM ^
People make a big deal about because they assume (not unreasonably) that all athletes are arrogant pricks. They just can't fathom a well known athlete could say something like that as a joke. They don't know that Denard is one of the nicest guys in sports so they just assume he actually believes this.
November 4th, 2012 at 7:45 AM ^
also made a statement in fun to the media.
State's still building their entire program around that one.
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:55 PM ^
He's the man
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:10 PM ^
Seriously, does anyone in the Detroit media pay attention to this? These players are babies, jerks, undisciplined on the field, dirty, etc. The football players of the state's second largest university making asses of themselves on the regular is not a story?
I can't explain how embarassed I would be if Hoke allowed his players to say these things.
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:20 PM ^
I believe MSU actually has a larger enrollment than UM.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:48 PM ^
He meant to say second best, although even that is debatable.
November 4th, 2012 at 12:10 AM ^
But Bell doesn't play for Wayne State or Kalamazoo College...
I am rather confused now.
November 4th, 2012 at 9:39 AM ^
It certainly is. moo u is not the second best school in the state. I will take CMU over sparty any day.
November 4th, 2012 at 11:49 AM ^
Come on. You could maybe make a case for Michigan Tech being the second-most prestigious school in the state . . . but CMU? I don't think so.
November 4th, 2012 at 1:48 PM ^
MSU is not the second best school in Michigan. Kalamazoo College, probably.
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:08 PM ^
both of these tweets are saved for future debates...
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:11 PM ^
Leveon Bell, Renaissance Man.
November 4th, 2012 at 10:04 AM ^
every time, I'd get about 2.6 yards past the line, then the stupid ref would just tackle me!!! :(
-Le'Veon Bell probably
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:56 PM ^
SB Nation got them all before he deleted the tweets...
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:09 PM ^
If we know Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio at all, we know he won't like his players publicly commenting like this, but this is the beauty of social media.
You don't know Dantonio at all. This twitter thing already happened this year. He already tried to put a stop to it. He can't because his players don't give a shit what he says.
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:55 PM ^
That last Pass Interference call was pretty bad. BUT, like they always say: if you play poorly enough to put the game in the ref's hands, you deserve the outcome.
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:49 PM ^
TWIS is going to be fun this week.
November 4th, 2012 at 8:09 AM ^
I'd give odds that TWIS features more UM fans whining about sparty losing than sparties.
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:57 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:58 PM ^
I like how they always accuse us of making excuses and now that they're losing they say stupid stuff like theyshould be 8-1 and the refs have been against them all year, and they actually beat Michigan because they scored a touchdown when Michigan did not.
November 3rd, 2012 at 8:59 PM ^
Sounds like some major butthurt. well... lil bro will be lil bro
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:04 PM ^
Bell is an interesting guy.
Can someone explain to me how the refs cost MSU the OSU game, the Iowa game and the Michigan game?
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:12 PM ^
They did pretty much cost MSU the OSU game. The Iowa and Michigan games were lost because of missed field goals, but the refs called a player down when he clearly wasn't during the OSU game. That was going to be a TD, and that happened at a pretty crucial point in the game.
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:44 PM ^
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:25 PM ^
MSU sucks and always has. Therefore, the only logical explanation is that the conspiracy has been there from the beginning!
November 4th, 2012 at 9:47 AM ^
Not trying to make excuses, because we shouldnt have put ourselves in a position to let a ref decide those games
You already know about OSU, the fumble recovery
Iowa - Ref missed a leg whip on the touchdown run, that ref has since been downgraded because of that.
Michigan - i guess the players believe Denard's knee was down on the 3rd and short run, i didn't find any evidence to call it either way.
Nebraska and OSU are legitimate, but i honestly dont think the Iowa or Michigan thing would have mattered at all. Iowa would have probably gotten the TD the next play, and Michigan probably wouldve picked up a 4th and inches. Losing 4 games by a combined 10 points must be tough on a player though.
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:04 PM ^
The sparty players take after Narduzzi. Kind of hard to blame 18 and 19 year olds when they have an assclown for a coach.