OT: Freep: 15+ Spartan Players involved in Dorm Beatdown?
Coach Dantonio is likely not having a restful Thanksgiving.
From Shannon Shelton of the Freep:
http://tinyurl.com/sparty-party
Prior allegations become more serious as the article quotes an attorney for one of the injured dorm residents, Brent Mitchell:
>>"Mr. Mitchell remains under his doctor's care and is recuperating at home with his family," attorney Vanessa Moss-Wilson said. "While we applaud the athletic department's quick and decisive actions as it relates to two of the athletes involved, there is substantial and credible information that more than 15 football players were involved in this unprovoked act of violence."
I guess this is the new off-field fashion statement for Spartan Football:
Good for recruiting? The real meaning of loss of institutional control?
Maybe if they were practicing "overtime" they wouldn't be able to partake in recreational assault and battery.
Good for recruiting? The real meaning of loss of institutional control?
Maybe if they were practicing "overtime" they wouldn't be able to partake in recreational assault and battery.
November 28th, 2009 at 7:57 AM ^
Why not? They can get all amped up on energy drinks and watching the 300 over and over again and then pretend to push a bunch of Persians into the sea.
Maybe if we're lucky this is finally the event that pierces the Dantonio teflon....
November 28th, 2009 at 8:53 AM ^
It'd be fairly easy to visit the +- 100 thugs and check their knuckles and upper bodies for abrasians. Seems like common sense to you and I, but you think the EL police would be on board with that? Not likely I suppose.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:13 AM ^
If this is true, I wouldn't send my kid to play there. MSU is still a Michigan tax payer supported school, someone should be held accountable, and more then just the players!
November 28th, 2009 at 9:25 AM ^
I cant even begin to fathom the extent of the collective orgasm that would erupt from the RCMB if this was happening at UM.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:50 AM ^
Looks like Shannon Shelton is actually doing some investigative reporting. Her reporting of this MSU incident stands in stark contrast to Rosenberg's ridiculous "invstigation" of Michigan practicing too much. Let's hope that Anger and the freep management give this MSU story the full investigative attention it deserves. My hopes are not high, however.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:06 AM ^
this didn't make national news blows my mind.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:15 AM ^
no one cares.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:21 AM ^
Every time I read one your posts, I imagine Tom Selleck reading it, and it makes every post awesome.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:40 AM ^
That seems a bit gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
November 28th, 2009 at 3:31 PM ^
come on, Brian. you are encouraging stupid shit when you give St Wolverine 16 points for his hallucination, and then tag Marc 14 for pointing it out.
November 28th, 2009 at 3:45 PM ^
Honestly, I don't think Brian had anything to do with me getting negative points. Some folks just didn't like my post. I'm good with that.
November 28th, 2009 at 4:50 PM ^
why and how this site rewards the type of drivel I objected to above.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:07 PM ^
Because it's funny.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:27 PM ^
Ixnay on the alkingtay about Gopointsmay.
November 28th, 2009 at 3:41 PM ^
My God Magnum!
Ha, I love that show...
November 28th, 2009 at 10:22 AM ^
The fact that you think that there is anyone outside the state of Michigan that finds anything MSU does newsworthy blows my mind.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:26 AM ^
the local papers pretty much passed on any indepth reporting. ESPN just picks up the local coverage.
MSU players involved in a fight has the same national interest as say.....players at North Carolina State involved in a fight.
big freakin' deal outside of the state of Michigan.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:49 AM ^
Why... this didn't make national news blows my mind.It's barely made -state- news. Nobody at my family's (and we all live in michigan) thanksgiving dinner had heard of this.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:23 AM ^
No matter what you do. You just can't get that to work.
I'm JUST sayin.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:28 AM ^
Can we make sure the student section all wears the black skull masks for next year's MSU game?
November 28th, 2009 at 10:58 AM ^
Greatest Idea Ever!
November 28th, 2009 at 11:36 AM ^
MGoStore, Six-Zero...someone needs to get working on a shirt to commemorate this moment in history. Thousands of fans in blue ski-masks and maize shirts next October 9th. The thought is just beautiful.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:13 PM ^
Hi,you don't know us,but we're sparty ...after the game and on random weekends,we like to relax by lighting up a couch or two and joining in on some unprovoked beatdowns. That's why when we're out of town we carry the get out of jail free card...we wouldn't be caught without it.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:33 PM ^
Might as well go for it while it's relevant and do it for the MSU bball game.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:39 PM ^
Too early for a shirt, but I'll have my mask ready to go.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:51 PM ^
Someone make this happen. Please.
November 28th, 2009 at 6:13 PM ^
I mean a booster can't give a kid money. But he can buy a couple of boxes of ski masks and drop them off by the student section, right?
November 28th, 2009 at 3:49 PM ^
Shouldn't they be green? Or at least have a Spartan logo on them?
November 28th, 2009 at 11:19 AM ^
First the loss the Florida in BB and now this. Christmas comes early.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:43 AM ^
Since most of you missed last week, I'll also note that Winston, the one involved in last year's incident, was dismissed from the team for being involved. There's quite a few threads from early in the week for some comedy gold if you search hard enough.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:50 AM ^
Is the Freep actually going to stop kissing Saint Dantonio's uh, ring now? It looks like the Saint's exemption from criticism is about to expire.
It would be nice to see the Freep do an investigative piece on something that actually involved a crime. I'm not a "legal person," but felony assault and B&E charges might be appropriate here.
If they are all caught and charged with felonies, Sparty would hold the record for most felonies by one team in a season. This could make the Portland "Jailblazers" look like choir boys.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:54 AM ^
I guess instead of saying that if you cannot get into michigan, go to State should become:
If you cannot get into prison, go to State!
November 28th, 2009 at 12:58 PM ^
If you want to go to prison go to State, clap clap,if you want to go to prison go to State, clap clap, if you want to go to prison because discipline is surely missin, if you want to go to prison go to State, clap clap.
November 28th, 2009 at 11:57 AM ^
I visited RCMB (very, very briefly), and at least half of the posters there are blaming the victim's attorney, with the other half saying variations of "why, sparty, why." I'll bet they wouldn't be blaming the victim's attorney if it was UM players.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:53 PM ^
im sure half of us would be blaming the lawyer if it was UM players.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:07 PM ^
If I'm sitting in my dorm playing XBox and the Michigan football team busts in and puts me in the hospital you better believe I'm suing the shit out of everyone.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:56 PM ^
Whatever brah, like, you shouldn't be trying to play your XBox where I'm trying to beat up nerds, brah. Banks of the red cedar brah.
November 28th, 2009 at 3:43 PM ^
I'm torn. Carson Butler was hardly Mr. Popularity around here, but then there was a vocal minority with our problem last weekend talking about "false accusations". But then there wasn't THAT much support for it, and it's a lot more he said-she said potentially than an event with probably hundreds of witnesses.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:44 PM ^
I especially like the one Sparty comment suggesting that the perpetrators were somehow provoked. I'm sure those engineers came at them hard with their slide rules and calculators.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:08 PM ^
WTH is going on in EL? They're keeping the Campus cops busy.
There will another piece coming out soon, "Why do the MSU
football players cry during sex?
Pepperspray."
November 28th, 2009 at 1:13 PM ^
has drop the hammer on all of these kids... i understand that it is fair to give people 2nd chances. but this is the second time in 2 years that state football players have stormed a house looking for ONE person and end up hurting the wrong person and others. and to top it off this time they harm some girls in their wake....
November 28th, 2009 at 1:56 PM ^
How can Dantonio credibly expect to be able to discipline his team when they all could look at Winston all year..you reap what you sow.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:05 PM ^
with you completely.. he is screwed now because of letting winston back on the team. but the only way he can salavage some credibility is by dropping the hammer on these other kids.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:18 PM ^
later dantonio...
November 28th, 2009 at 1:26 PM ^
going to get fired for this.... but i'm hoping that the AD at state has given him a good talking to about shit like this going on.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:20 PM ^
This is unbelievable. If I were the family of one of the victims, I wouldn't just sue - I'd want Dantonio gone. How the hell does this go on?
November 28th, 2009 at 1:39 PM ^
I think there's a new Thug U...
November 28th, 2009 at 2:28 PM ^
This is a really messed up story and is pretty sad, but at the same time I'm happy. This means my stupid sparty "friends" can't just unload crap on me all off season and expect me to not come back with anything. Dantonio may want to actually do something about this.
November 28th, 2009 at 3:12 PM ^
The best thing about this awful story is how perfectly Sparty it is. Michigan is in it's worst stretch of football in 40+ years, and all MSU can do is lay an egg during a year they were supposed to contend for the Big Ten title, and then follow it up with this nightmare. It just somehow fits their collective persona so well.