August 31st, 2012 at 11:13 PM ^
Wow. Blatant hold by Simms.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:13 PM ^
Why doesn't BSU just run their own trick play called "Little Saints" where all 11 guys just attack Bell and break his legs?
August 31st, 2012 at 11:14 PM ^
WOOOO! AUGUST HEISMAN!!!!
August 31st, 2012 at 11:15 PM ^
To soon....?
August 31st, 2012 at 11:17 PM ^
but it might be too soon.
brah....
August 31st, 2012 at 11:18 PM ^
Oh, its WAAAAAY better. No one has ever won it so soon.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:21 PM ^
Until Bell does it against Notre Dame we cant give him the Forcier Heisman ;)
September 1st, 2012 at 12:18 AM ^
Your avatar makes everything you say magic!
August 31st, 2012 at 11:19 PM ^
August 31st, 2012 at 11:14 PM ^
August 31st, 2012 at 11:14 PM ^
chris peterson is gonna have to talk to his defense about effort.. i know they are tired but damn they are not out of the game yet. get a stop and they have a chance
August 31st, 2012 at 11:14 PM ^
Bell has ran so much the offensive line is tired. That doesn't happen at Michigan.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:16 PM ^
Valentini: "I admit it! I was wrong! Boise State was a far better team than I anticipated. Big win. Biiiig wiiiin."
August 31st, 2012 at 11:15 PM ^
Hey Boise, cover the god damn tight end.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:15 PM ^
If nothing else this helps ease my mind when they come to The Big House this year.. Mattison should have no problem with a gameplan this year.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:24 PM ^
The MSU offense will take time to gel. They may be a completely different team by the time they head to the Big House. This win and a few more games will give Maxwell confidence and time to mature a bit.
I was especially encouraged by MSU's D, however. While their corners are really good (although BSU's WRs certainly helped make them look that way) Gholston wasn't a factor except in the negative sense.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:15 PM ^
Start strong, play like crap in the middle, and do just enough in the end to hold on for a victory.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:16 PM ^
Well I think Boise's little run is over - they'll lose a couple more times this year. And Sparty is going to be a good team that loses 3-5 games.
September 1st, 2012 at 8:37 AM ^
August 31st, 2012 at 11:16 PM ^
Man, this is like watching MSU play OSU last year - just a horrible game that MSU somehow manages to squeak out.
And yet still, somehow a narrow win at home over a team ranked 11 spots lower will be spun into an epic victory.
The good news - MSU's offense is piss-poor. The bad news - so is BSU's offense. I really wish we were scheduled to play MSU next week. Maxwell is a huge liability at this point.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:17 PM ^
August 31st, 2012 at 11:17 PM ^
you know they will score to make it look like they beat them by double digits
August 31st, 2012 at 11:17 PM ^
August 31st, 2012 at 11:17 PM ^
Not often the most important play of the game was a timeout called after the ball was snapped.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:40 PM ^
I was playing halo was a friend and had the game on my laptop, looked down during the game and saw what I thought was Boise converting the 4th and 2 on an option pitch, then when my game ended I saw them going for 4th and 2 again and not getting it. Who called the timeout?
August 31st, 2012 at 11:18 PM ^
MSU did not show a great D this game.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:18 PM ^
Congrats to MSU for winning a game in which they started Nick Sheridan's sister Nicollette at QB
August 31st, 2012 at 11:18 PM ^
So about Arnett what happened to him? I thought he was going to MSU because of the greatness of Maxwell.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:18 PM ^
Dantonio just killed everyone who went with Spartan and the points....
August 31st, 2012 at 11:19 PM ^
Seriously. I'm mainly glad that Gholston was abjectly terrible all night. Never once got legitimate pressure on the QB. Not sure if he was even in on a tackle.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:20 PM ^
Which was A LOT of people, from what I was hearing.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:20 PM ^
Couches will be burned.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:18 PM ^
Whatever
August 31st, 2012 at 11:19 PM ^
August 31st, 2012 at 11:19 PM ^
Well there's one upside....20 hours till we play Bama!!!!!
August 31st, 2012 at 11:19 PM ^
do they go on to find a nice little niche in the big east, or fall back to obscurity?
August 31st, 2012 at 11:23 PM ^
August 31st, 2012 at 11:29 PM ^
They lost 10 of 11 starters on defense, their starting QB and NFL running back. They'll be back - hell of a coaching job tonight...personally I thought the line was a joke and MSU at home would kill them by 14+. You shouldnt take a team on the road without any defense back and a first time QB starter and be within a whisker of a "top 10" team. The Big East is not a good conference for football so they will do fine. In a conference with bigger players they'd get worn down. In one game (a bowl) they can play tricks and finesse out wins. Undersized at almost every position versus power conferences.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:48 PM ^
I think they'll be back, but I wouldn't say their defensive staff did a "hell of a job." Practically every pass play for MSU in the second half was a little 5-yard out/wheel route, and somehow this proved too much for the BSU defensive braintrust to figure out.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:32 PM ^
BSU will continue to overachieve their talent level as long as they have Coach Pete (he loves Boise), but will continue to be under-manned because they still won't be able to draw talent even close to second-tier teams like MSU.
Like I said before, BSU had all of one 4* player on their entire team during the four years of Kellen Moore's 50-3 record. By contrast, in 2010 alone, MSU signed four 4* and one 5* players. With that being said, BSU has made a name for themselves nationally, and if they can return to being a ranked team by the end of the year, they might be able to continue to slowly build the program.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:19 PM ^
Minuses are Maxwell looks terrified, their receivers are horrible, their oline was unimpressive, and their dline couldn't generate any pressure.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:27 PM ^
I disagree about their d-line. Boise couldn't run the ball at all. Spartans look one dimensional on offense with Bell and Sims as their only passing threat. I expect Maxwell to improve but the real test will come for him against Notre Dame. ND has the talent and coaching on defense to take away Bell and make that team one dimensional. Sparty's defense will help them contend for the Legends Division.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:30 PM ^
D-line is average. The DE's, both Gholston and Rush, were invisible tonight.
Their LBs are good, but bite very hard on runs. Their DBs are very good, but vulnerable to big plays. You have to throw deep (which Boise did on 3 consecutive plays late in the game, with almost devestating effect), and scheme a way to punish those LBs for coming so hard. Seems like there's an offensive gameplan that wouldn't be too hard to figure out.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:31 PM ^
Sims also played well at tight end after being lost at sea for a few years. He was MAxwell's main outlet. So focus on Sims and Bell, and let Maxwell and the WR's beat you. O-line looked fine on running plays ;) but yes as a pass protection, not so much. Will know better versus N.D.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:19 PM ^
News! Rod Gilmore says the Sparty offense isn't ready, "yet", for the Rose Bowl.
August 31st, 2012 at 11:19 PM ^
Not impressed with either team. One-dimensional strategy all around.
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