Afternoon Games Open Thread

Submitted by M-Wolverine on
When NC vs. GT is your best FOOTBALL game, it's hard to get excited. The afternoon looks like a better warm up to tonight's events.

JT4104

September 21st, 2013 at 4:18 PM ^

Damn...Kelly is utterly predictable at this point. Gets close to the redzone and goes run game all of a sudden, god forbid a short pass here or there.

MGoClimb

September 21st, 2013 at 4:27 PM ^

As bad as MSU's offense has been this season, they have not trailed in a game yet.  Let's see how they do when trying to come back from a deficit.  If ND can get a double digit lead, MSU could be in some real trouble.

Then again, it is a rivarly game.

snarling wolverine

September 21st, 2013 at 4:34 PM ^

I've always thought personal fouls should be like technical fouls in basketball, or yellow cards in soccer.  If you get one, that's your warning, and a second should be an ejection.  Accummulating them in back-to-back games should bring punishment as well.  There needs to be more teeth behind it than just the 15 yards.

snarling wolverine

September 21st, 2013 at 4:57 PM ^

That's not much of a threat.  Few players have ever been suspended based on the videotape.  Two years ago, the Big Ten dragged its feet on punishing Will Gholston until the media outcry forced them to.  

But if you make it automatic that anyone who gets two personal fouls, or a guy who gets one in back-to-back games, is ejected, then you put the fear of ejection in the back of any player's mind immediately when he gets one PF flag.  Then he knows he's got to clean his act up the rest of the game, because the same official who flagged him once might do it again.