The Sparty Spiral

That's only one loss in the big ten so they are not yet in full blown "Sparty Spiral". Plus this next week is the game that they are all looking forward to, so if Michigan wins I think MSU goes .500 this season.

doesn't count as an 8 point loss to me. Wisconsin had them blown out and their backups gave up a 90+ yard TD pass with 15 seconds left in the game.
My concern is that at 1-3 beating Michigan makes their season. Oops, I forgot with Dumbtonio Sparty owns the State lol. Wonder how Gholston is feeling about his verbal now? How stupid does the Freep look now with their preseason picks on team records?

According to sparty fans that I work with, the only thing that could help their season is a victory over M. They are already getting ready for B-Ball season. The spiral is on, but with a home loss next week, .500 is probably too high of a goal.

Michigan football ALWAYS spirals after playing MSU.

UM is 1-5 in regular season games played after facing Dantonio's MSU teams.

MSU football is simply not that good this year. It's hard to spiral when you don't start high. But the UM obsession with the idea is cute.

I think Sparty is a lot better than their record indicates, and we are in for one hell of a dog fight next Saturday.

If UM starts out strong, then the MSU spiral might come into full force. This game is critical to turning around their season and everyone wearing green will be amped. If UM can get a lead, the doubts in their little green hearts will start to rise up. After a loss to UM, being 1-4 (and still having another MAC team on their schedule) should have Dantonio wondering if his "pride comes before the fall" statement was also applicable to himself.

It deserves no more attention than a dog gets for barking. It's what they do.

They are a slightly better than 500 team for the past four or five decades.

It is mildly interesting how they may get the wins or losses in clusters, reminds me of the sores I would see on the women in E.L.

It doesn't matter whether they beat us or not, Sparty's season goes into a downward spiral after playing us anyway (mostly because their season is over). Look at the past few years (outside of last year) and check out how they do after playing us. It's just sad. Even way back when they beat us in a year that wasn't the apocalypse, they still sucked afterward.

They should be favorites to win, maybe they will, and either way I'll continue to not really care about their existence.

This MSU team reminds me of those Lions teams a few years ago. They would go 4-12 or 3-13, but they would have a lot of "close" losses, usually losing by less than 7 points. But in each of those games, they blew coverages, made bad play calls, and generally lost those games through a combination of inferior talent and systemic problems. This MSU team is staying in games, but they are making boneheaded plays and poor decisions at the worst times. I saw the same thing under JLS - they won for a bit, but the coaching staff could never generate a sustainable identity, and as a result the team started to fall apart. I still think Dantonio is a good coach for the team, but MSU has been about a .500 team for the past 20-30 years; that isn't going to change overnight.

Why is redcedar87 still allowed to post here?