Romeo50

September 8th, 2013 at 6:49 PM ^

Sparty recruiting for Rivals? Is that a real job or does he get to call himself that because its insignificance means no one will notice anyway? How do you google search and write about kids that are insecure and have a driving hatred of UM to target as recruits? Just legacy kids or is his "job" done a few hours into each year? Maybe he only seeks to write about recruits from Amish or Scandanavian communities that have no internet and think RichRod is still at UM?

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patrickdolan

September 8th, 2013 at 6:58 PM ^

that one of the things he values in life is "being a father." Nice example for his kids, eh?

I wonder what he'd say if a Notre Dame player did what he advises to his son?

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DonAZ

September 8th, 2013 at 7:04 PM ^

Some from MSU are decrying the "Chicken Song" at the end of the game as showing institutional classlessness.

If we were to point to this (and Gholston's attempt to break Robinson's neck two years ago), they'd claim "That's different!"  Then they'd have trouble explaining why.

Others have said it -- they are scared to death.  Their football program really is at risk of sliding into low second-tier territory. 

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saveferris

September 9th, 2013 at 7:23 AM ^

At risk?  They're pretty much already there.  Let's run through all the Sparty memes that they've been clinging to as proof that they are going to stay relevant that are quickly proving to be false:

  1. Dan Rouschar is responsible for the crapitude of last year's offense.  With new coaching blood, the offense is going to be much better in 2013. (Yep, lots of improvement there)
  2. Recruiting rankings don't matter. (Not when you have a cozy recruiting relationship with OSU, which is no longer the case)
  3. Sparty coaches up players better than Michigan.  (Not at QB, it would seem)
  4. Michigan's performance against ND on Saturday doesn't matter because Sparty's defense >>>ND's defense (this one gets a massive hole blown through it in a couple of weeks)
  5. MIchigan isn't the better team because they couldn't even score a TD against Sparty last season.  (November can't get here soon enough)

Sparty will emerge from the OOC with a 3-1 record, but we should start taking bets on which also-ran Big Ten team is going to be the first to pull off the upset of MSU and shatter their tenuous hold on hope that their defense can lead them to a Big Ten title.

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BeatOSU52

September 8th, 2013 at 7:10 PM ^

on umgoblue.com's message board, and according to some posters there, I guess this kind of stuff has been going on for years at SpartanRag where Jim and Dorsey constantly make stuff up in their recruiting articles to take shots at Michigan in their articles.  Probably hasn't been this bad, though.  Sums up that screwed up fanbase.

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cozy200

September 8th, 2013 at 7:18 PM ^

Please allow him to stick around there and reaffirm all we know about east landfill. Week to week, this could be the best thing that happened to us/them in a while. Total piece of shit "journalist" fits perfectly for that standard.

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Mmmm Hmmm

September 8th, 2013 at 9:25 PM ^

Yeah, this is pretty mean spirited. And besides, it would still be wrong if he said it about Boise St, Ohio, or the little sisters of the poor. Advocating for a team to injure a college player shows extremely poor judgment and doesn't speak well to character.

It isn't like he insulted Gardner or criticized his game--he called for an injury. The former is totally in bounds, the latter is not.

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Wolvmarine

September 8th, 2013 at 8:25 PM ^

This guy is totally going to lose his job, media types have gotten fired for less. Wow, what an idiot. You have a job where you get paid to cover your favorite team and you manage to screw it up. Can't wait to see what the Spartan fan base does after they watch Michigan win the first College Football Playoff.

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Tater

September 8th, 2013 at 9:24 PM ^

Comparoni certainly lends credence to the opinions of people such as I who believe that Sparty always tries to intentionally injure whoever is playing QB for Michigan.

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JamieH

September 8th, 2013 at 9:41 PM ^

An opinion would have been:

"If Michigan keeps using Gardner as a lead blocker, he is going to get hurt, and that's stupid seeing how valuable he is."

What this douche-nozzle did was suggest that Notre Dame basically intentionally cheap-shot and attempt to injure Gardner (and ruin his career at the same time).  That's not an opinion.  That's a suggestion that a team intentionally injure a kid.  Coming from a random fan that is fine.  Douchy, but fine.  Coming from someone holding a paid position?  Crosses a pretty big line.  I wouldn't employ him if I ran things, but given the class of assholes that are running things up in East Lansing under the king of all assholes Dantonio, they will probably give this guy a raise.  Dantonio loves cheap shot football.

(Yes I know this guy doesn't work for MSU directly)

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steve sharik

September 8th, 2013 at 10:53 PM ^

Dantonio really dislikes Comparoni, indirectly insulted him at their presser.

Dantonio said he'd take one more question, and it had to be about the defense.  Comparoni gets the mike, asks about why so much shotgun.  Dantonio sarcastically says how great it is to be up at the podium and get questions like this, then goes on to talk about his defense.

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maizenblue1971

September 9th, 2013 at 12:33 AM ^

So what he is saying, if they had a talented player on their team, we should go after their knees and try to maim their player if given the opportunity.  That is justice, baseball style.    We can chop block any of their good defensive players if they try to make a tackle and play football.       /s    This guy is an obviuos asshole, should be let go by rivals, and if he isn't a mass exodus by any subscibers to rivals should ensue.

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markusr2007

September 9th, 2013 at 2:49 AM ^

the moment you defended Comparoni's call to action for defensive football players to target another football player's knees and "bust them", referencing a football player (McGahee) who has suffered perhaps one of the most horrific and painful knee injuries in football history, not to mention several others afterward.

Subtract Michigan Wolverines out of it completely. Comparoni's comment "Make him/them pay" is probably acceptable on its own as a metaphor, but advocating intentional injury of another player (any player of any team) in the same line is juvenile, reprehensible and unsportsmanslike. 

I find your argument invalid. 

 

 

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oldcityblue

September 9th, 2013 at 9:32 AM ^

Notice that he ends the Tweet with "missed opportunity". As much as Comparoni lacks couth with the content and context of the message, this is just as off-putting of not moreso. Clearly the implication here is that the Spartans should be taking advantage of any opportunities to purposefully injure valuable players and to do so without getting penalized.

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Rufus X

September 9th, 2013 at 3:54 PM ^

And failing miserably.  The gist of his explanation is that he "thought he was only talking to 300-or so hard-core spartan fans".   As if sometimes that makes it OK.  Several years ago some guy from a major oil company - Exxon maybe - was busted saying ridiculously racist comments in a board room.    I don't remember the "I didn't think anyone was listening" defense worked then... or now.    Loser.

 

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