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16 weeks 17 hours ago	This, exactly.  The other	This, exactly, GoBlogSparty.  The other reason for MSU fans to not go nuts about the recruiting class rankings is that we've been consistently signing smaller classes. Dantonio has never signed more than the 23 he did in 2007. Which also shows that John L. Smith didn't leave the place in as bad of a state as was commonly thought.
16 weeks 20 hours ago	Lyles?	Did your boys really not offer Jamal Lyles? He told the DetNews that he picked MSU partly because Michigan wanted him to play TE. I had to come and post here because I'm actually the only MSU fan who follows recruiting left. Everyone else killed themselves yesterday over Monty Madaris waffling at his high school's fax machine. P.S.-I really want someone to ask Mark Dantonio if he knows what a hipster is. Or a meme.
23 weeks 3 days ago	If you figure out how to get ND...	...to play you, let your nice friends up the road know the method. Izzo gets asked about by fans on his radio show from time to time. The last time I heard it, he responded with something like "I don't know. Ask the pope." Apparently, repeated overtures in many different permutations have been rebuffed.
24 weeks 3 days ago	Just a typo	It should have read "2013." /Getting my 2012 trolling in early.
1 year 24 weeks ago	Western is actually sitting	Western is actually sitting home at (6-6) hoping for some 5-6 Sun Belt and Conference USA teams lose and improve the Broncos bowl chances. There's not a Kalamazoo-based bowl game (The Bells Bowl?) so they're probably at a pretty big disadvantage to more nearby teams for selection.
1 year 24 weeks ago	Umm, not so much	John L., whatever else you'd say about him and it would all be true, actually mostly cleaned up the behavior problems that had flourished under Bobby Williams. (Smoker's drug use and RB Dawan Moss dragging a Lansing cop being the most notorious) Smith's teams had one ugly incident where the top two TEs beat the crap out of a kid and (supposedly) tried to drown him in the Red Cedar. He suspended both of them for the rest of the season and that's about all I recall. John L's teams were known for bad discipline ON the field, not really off. He also much improved the academic standing of the team from Saban/Bobby levels, if I remember right. I'm suprised you wouldn't know this, given the Dantonio-taunting potential. Blocking out Bobby Williams' entire tenure seems more like something we'd do in Spartan land.  That's probably the best defense of John L. Smith. Compare the talent he and Bobby had and it seems to me he did about the same with less. Plus, he really hated Notre Dame.
1 year 25 weeks ago	So, um, Go Blue, is how you	So, um, Go Blue, is how you say it?
1 year 26 weeks ago	Just go...	...ahead and type that name twice more. See what happens.
1 year 26 weeks ago	Why so...	....on Thomas? I thought the general book on him was that he's a pretty natural, instictual LB? MSU is not as poor for Big 10 DE sized people as we have been in the past, either. Thomas has a pretty good chance, if he's really all that at LB, to come in and take over Eric Gordon's vacated OLB spot as a true frosh. Nobody among the group of backup LBs has really distinguished themselves that I've seen except Max Bullough, who's the heir apparent in the middle.
1 year 29 weeks ago	True	Dantonio inhereited a team much more suited for his preferred system in his first year than Rodriguez did. Suprising, given that we were making a fairly opposite transition, but true. John L. Smith apparently had a pretty good power-running, balanced offense team that he didn't make use of. MSU 2007 had a decent QB, two very good backs including Jehuu Caulcrick who was almost unstoppable inside the five, a disruptive, experienced d-line and an offensive line that had something like seven guys with starting experience, including four 5th-year seniors. Plus, Devin Thomas emerged from the middle of John L's depth chart as an excellent reciever and Kellen Davis was a very good TE. He had to do a lot with the D, staring at least three freshman, but they all turned into four-year starters. Overall, a lot easier than trying to run the Rodspread with Threet and Sheridan.

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