Stewart Mandel : Dantonio delivering on promise
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/stewart_mandel/10/03/mich…
This man has a very short memory span and certainly didn't do any research when writing his follow up pieces to the Freep article. Dantonio is "delivering" a 2-3 record, good for them. Mandel is delivering hype-based journalism, bad for readers. Let's be sure to call him on his bandwagon fandom when he decides that his next celebrity crush is on Tate Forcier.
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:30 PM ^
"Who Cares!"
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:34 PM ^
Dantonio deserves ZERO credit. Good coaching? Ha! How many personal fouls did Sparty have? Yeah looks like the players have a lot of discipline. Dantonio has taught his players to hate Michigan so much that they come out playing like uncontrolled thugs.
Dantonio lost to Central. He got lucky that a freshman made a mistake at the end of the game. But now, we will have to hear all this crap about the Spartans. It makes me physically sick. I want to vomit.
If UM does not win by 30 points next year in the Big House, I will be disappointed. I want to see us go for 2 with a 35 point lead, and for Rich Rod to say after the game,"I only went for two because I couldn't go for three." This is humiliating.
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:49 PM ^
If UM does not win by 30 points next year in the Big House, I will be disappointed.
Step away from the keyboard big guy. Its a loss...not a big deal. Its humiliating to barely lose to your archrival in an "instant classic?" I think you should probably reevaluate why you're a fan.
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:08 PM ^
This loss is bad because the newspapers are going to run down Michigan, Rich Rodriguez to no end and praise Dantonio and Michigan State to no end (balance of power shifting, emphasis on in-state recruiting, not to mention extremely pro-Spartan reporting). The Big Ten Network commentators were extremely biased. Reading all these things, seeing those stupid players and fans vindicated after the ludicrous comments from earlier this week, is, if not humiliating, certainly very discouraging.
I used a little hyperbole, but I really want Michigan to come out angry next year in the Big House. Let me rephrase: "If Michigan wins, I will be happy no matter what, but I would really like to see them come out and make a statement that we are and will always be the premier program in the state."
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:36 PM ^
1. If your team is playing like beetle dung, you're not going to have pro-you commentators.
2. I don't read opinion pieces related to the Spartans because a) i'm not a fan of theirs b) I don't trust the Detroit papers to write anything worthwhile in the opinion sections. If you do the same, you probably wouldn't be "humiliated" or "very discouraged."
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:29 PM ^
Sparty propaganda infects Michigan pieces as well (see: anything written by Drew Sharp, Mitch Albom).
As far as the commentating, it was Pro-Spartan in ways that had nothing to do with the game. Examples: One time, Tate took a sack because of a bad snap, and the commentator's praised the MSU blitz. Anytime State did something good, the commentators praised them.
On the flipside, anytime Michigan did something good, the commentators pointed out that it was State's mistake, and nothing the Wolverines had themselves brought about. On Stonum's long catch and run, when he "broke the defender's ankles", for want of a better term, the commentators mentioned that it was a bad angle taken by the corner (absolutely no credit given to Stonum who made a nice play to beat the corner). When Michigan tied the game, the commentators loudly said that State had blown an assignment and that was the only reason we scored.
Even when we weren't playing like beetle dung, the commentators were extremely biased.
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:38 PM ^
Take me to the promised land Mark! We will be getting to the capital One Bowl every year now! Wooooooo
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:46 PM ^
Dantonio won the biggest game of his season; UM still has bigger fish to fry this season. I'm fine with MSU winning in the abstract sense, but this game wouldn't inspire a whole lot of faith in the direction of the program - witness the numerous PF penalties, the inability to put UM away despite 3+ quarters of horrible football, home crowd, etc.
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:10 PM ^
Don't discourage passion...I'd absolutely love to see the same thing. Sparty doesn't deserve respect.
Condescending tone with "step away from the keyboard big guy" isn't necessary, and every loss is a big deal. Being emotionally intense and upset after M loses doesn't make us stupid, rabid, bandwagon fans with a lack of perspective, it only implies that we have a lot of feeling invested in the game and like to show it/vent it.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:36 PM ^
Do idiots who say that know what is going on in and AT Michigan? There is only ONE "bigger" fish to fry and that is Ohio State.
UM fans can bury their head in the sand all they want, but MSU is a big game, bigger than silly fans who want to rationalize will ever know.
But this just intensifies the rivalry that much more and UM's staff will respond in the future.
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 PM ^
Honestly, it's not even that bad of an article.
Are you really going to argue that "nothing brings more pride [to MSU] than humbling the Wolverines"? Mandel's point is that Dantonio promised to beat Michigan, and whatever the long-term outlook on that goal, he's accomplished it two years running for the first time in a while. And we all know that they're very vocal about the importance of beating us, sometimes to the detriment of other goals.
"When Forcier is rolling, Michigan can knock off just about anybody, but its defense will prevent it from contending for a Big Ten title."
... Seriously, is that worth disagreeing with? I think that if we play well, we can go toe-to-toe with just about anyone in the B10, but we're not going to beat everyone with a defense like the one we have.
Look, the headline about "taking over the state" is annoying, I agree, but the article itself is hardly inflammatory.
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:16 PM ^
..it would be easier to take if Mandel had used a phrase like, "MSU escaped by inches at home in OT" to describe the conclusion of today's contest.
I say this because the INT on Tate's final pass could have just as easily been a TD if the safety had been a step slower crossing the ball's trajectory.