Texas A&M, Seattle and MSU?
September 16th, 2019 at 11:45 AM ^
Love a good Sparty No!
September 16th, 2019 at 11:48 AM ^
Who shouldn’t have been on the field and also how tf do you fuck up the field goal team? I was on my high school’s field goal team and we never had too many men on the field. If you get hurt you find someone to replace you and then tell them if you’re going back in. Idiocy.
September 16th, 2019 at 11:54 AM ^
They had like 10 seconds to get the kick off, and they're pretty clearly a poorly coached team.
September 16th, 2019 at 12:13 PM ^
It was quick but they have a FG team and those same 11 guys practice during the week. How do you not know who is on the FG team? We do see players running on the field late in FG situations but you’d think the coach would have those guys ready to go in a situation like that.
September 16th, 2019 at 12:27 PM ^
Plus, in that situation (down 3 points in the last minute of the game) the FG team should be ready to go.
September 16th, 2019 at 12:42 PM ^
The only thing I can think of, is Mork was going to run a fake FG because his kicker struggled a bit, and the personnel on the fake team are different.
September 16th, 2019 at 12:55 PM ^
@GOMBLOG, I was going to say that as well. It does look like they have an extra lineman / te to the right side of their o-line though, to answer the OP's question.
September 16th, 2019 at 4:42 PM ^
ACURATE
September 16th, 2019 at 12:52 PM ^
definitely poorly coached. They had a first down, then spiked the ball with 11 seconds left. So it was only 2nd and 10. Dantonio and company sat on their thumbs trying to decide whether to crank off one more play or just kick it. That indecision caused the special teams to be rushed.
September 16th, 2019 at 1:35 PM ^
Didn't play football, but it seems like you would notice someone next to you who usually isn't, or you are not in your assigned spot.
My only similar experience is when I'm in the big house and I am a seat over or only halfway on my seat. My immediate assumption is there are too many people in the section. Seems like a similar thing for a line on a field goal unit.
September 16th, 2019 at 7:28 PM ^
I had the thought that MSU had multiple injuries on the O-Line during the game and there may have been a communication error when replacing those players on the field goal unit.
September 16th, 2019 at 11:51 AM ^
To be honest, the following play that they missed the field goal on, should have had a penalty on ASU and it would have come with an automatic 1st down. Pac-12 officials have already announced that they were wrong to not call it.
September 16th, 2019 at 11:53 AM ^
Welp, fuck 'em.
September 16th, 2019 at 11:53 AM ^
Noone cares.
September 16th, 2019 at 11:54 AM ^
This is also true of the "Trouble with the Snap" play a few years ago when we played them.
I for one am not going to get upset about Sparty losing a game on a special teams blunder that should've been negated by a missed penalty.
September 16th, 2019 at 2:00 PM ^
I'd be completely fine with giving MSU the ASU win if they agree that they hit our long snapper early and give us that win back. If not, I agree, fuckem.
September 16th, 2019 at 11:56 AM ^
To be honest, mork shouldn't have assholes on the team and run a loose ass ship with no discipline either, but hey whatever.
September 16th, 2019 at 11:56 AM ^
Look at all the gift wins they have gotten over the years due to play clock and other bs. Fuck their whining
September 16th, 2019 at 12:01 PM ^
Referee’s have NO impact on the game right?
September 16th, 2019 at 12:13 PM ^
To be honest, MSU received a PI that wasn’t actually PI. MSU got an enormous break on that drive.
September 16th, 2019 at 2:16 PM ^
Yep. Nobody in Spartyville wants to talk about that though. It's all whining and "fix was in" bullshit.
September 16th, 2019 at 12:18 PM ^
Sure. MSU also could have lined up properly the play before, or the Pac 12 officials respond back about the absolute phantom PI call earlier in the drive.
The narrative (not by you, but generally) that MSU was screwed out of a win here by a bad call drives me insane. They someone picked up 400 yards of offense and still missed 3 FGs and failed to convert a number of opportunities. And, this was just to go to overtime; there's no given that MSU was going to win in OT either.
September 16th, 2019 at 2:22 PM ^
Nevermind that Dantonio used two, TWO timeouts to align his defense when he has ASU on 4th and 13 and they still fucked it up. If MSU had a timeout at the end of this game to not rush the FG unit, they make it to OT.
September 16th, 2019 at 12:30 PM ^
They had gotten a total gift pass interference penalty to get into FG range in the first place, so it balanced out.
September 16th, 2019 at 12:56 PM ^
Desmond's 2 point conversion pass interference in 90; Clockgate 2001, Blasting our long snapper in 2015....I don't feel very sorry for them.
September 16th, 2019 at 7:01 PM ^
Also the holding call on the return a couple seasons ago.
September 16th, 2019 at 2:11 PM ^
Is that you Mark? Nice avatar but Bo Pelini already has the cats.
September 16th, 2019 at 4:37 PM ^
As Joe Biden says we dont believe in FACTS we believe in the TRUTH
September 16th, 2019 at 12:00 PM ^
This is so goddamn stupid, as I still don't understand why Pitbull is plastered across this site.
Shouldn't have made me laugh - but it did...
+1
September 16th, 2019 at 12:40 PM ^
That +1 is...
#ThePitbullEffect
September 16th, 2019 at 1:52 PM ^
Pitbull > MurderWolf
What has come over us, please get us out of the BPONE zone!
What else could explain it.
September 16th, 2019 at 3:57 PM ^
el siempre ha estado aqui jaja
September 16th, 2019 at 11:57 AM ^
Mistakes happen to every team (in terms of penalties.) Methinks there is a bit too much schadenfreude here at MSU's misfortune. I mean, I want to beat MSU and OSU and ND and the rest of the games as much as anyone. But I don't obsess over how our rivals are doing.
September 16th, 2019 at 12:02 PM ^
Pointing and laughing doesn’t equal obsession haha
September 16th, 2019 at 12:28 PM ^
Especially on a bye week for us where we aren't busy either watching, anticipating, or reviewing the aftermath of our own game.
September 16th, 2019 at 12:15 PM ^
Its not the 12 guys on the field that makes it stupid - on its own, that is just a normal football mistake.
It was Mork's panic that was so damn stupid - "Should we throw it in the endzone? Should we kick it now? Why didn't I hire some new coaches in the spring? Who made us wear those ugly uniforms last week? Things are just moving too damn fast!!!"
He had 2nd down and the clock stopped - all he had to do was tell Lewerke to spike it again, take a chill pill, and then make the right decision with his coaches and team. Instead - he did one of stupidest things I have seen in football, and tried to rush out the field goal unit with 10-15 seconds left on the clock. And in the process - didn't give the holder time to count the players. A complete choke job caused by unnecessary panic.
Mork will have the most wins ever for a head football coach at MSU - perhaps right before he is run out of town at the end of the season. He said it best - "Pride cometh before the fall". You know what - Fuck Mork and Screw Sparty.
Go Blue!
September 16th, 2019 at 12:41 PM ^
Even with the limited time, I still don't get how one guy who wasn't on their FG unit decided to just play the down anyway.
September 16th, 2019 at 1:56 PM ^
I’m guessing that one of the lineman got dinged up and missed a fg attempt earlier in the game. So his back-up was on the field for an attempt. That lineman gets taped up or hydrated or whatever, doesn’t communicate to his back-up that he’s good to go and then chaos. Either that or a few guys got banged up, the protections up front and assignments changed throughout the game and ultimately ended with terrible communication and chaos.
September 16th, 2019 at 12:52 PM ^
May he be fucked forevermore. I love how his big party got ruined and hopefully Pat Fitzgerald keeps the extension going into next week.
To The Fuckening
September 16th, 2019 at 11:57 AM ^
Almost as funny as the infraction itself was Spencer Tillman repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, trying to count the players afterwards.
September 16th, 2019 at 12:48 PM ^
That was good. "No. Wait. I actually count 11 here. Let's try it again..."
September 16th, 2019 at 12:01 PM ^
Bahahaha!
September 16th, 2019 at 12:18 PM ^
The post titles around here have seriously gone downhill lately
September 16th, 2019 at 12:27 PM ^
How did the players other than the obvious decide where to line up to get set, then not think something was wrong.
Usually there's a guy hustling to get off the field when there's 12, because they can't get lined up and notice it. Not Sparty though...Sparty chose to Sparty No.
September 16th, 2019 at 12:35 PM ^
Didn't Dantonio basically try to do what Hoke did years ago (except Hoke did it successfully) namely, rush the FG guys out there? What game was that... the famed Dileo slide?
September 16th, 2019 at 12:42 PM ^
2013 Northwestern.
We have absolutely ripped Northwestern's heart out this decade, and usually in phenomenally ugly games (2015 excepted).
September 16th, 2019 at 12:52 PM ^
Only sort of, but not really the same. Hoke immediately made the call for the FG unit to go out so there was no hesitation or confusion. Dantonio burned time thinking about it and caused confusion.
Hoke had the advantage (?) of having less time so it was an easier call. Nevertheless, having everyone ready to go in advance like that was actually very good coaching.
September 16th, 2019 at 1:08 PM ^
The clock was running for Hoke on that play. I don't think spiking it was an option. It must have been 4th down.