Dantonio: "I firmly believe this year will be a success." Also potential MSU basketball recruiting schadenfreude
Tweet from Solari with the quote. No other context given but I agree Mark, this year was a massive success for you guys. Your offense has been stellar the past 3 years and absolutely no changes whatsoever need to be made.
In other Sparty related news, the basketball early signing period ends tomorrow and top 35 composite commit Rocket Watts has still not sent in his LOI to MSU yet. No reason has been given but from MSU boards, but he initially tweeted earlier this week that he would sign this week before deleting the tweet. Now he still hasn't signed and rumors are people in his camp are trying to push him elsewhere. This may end up like McDowell where he signs with MSU anyways despite the protests from his camp, but it seems very possible MSU loses their top rated recruit from their 2019 class.
November 20th, 2018 at 1:37 PM ^
I can't care about basketball or MSU right now. Repost this thread in a week or so.
Kthks.
November 20th, 2018 at 1:45 PM ^
i look forward to that post, and all of the replies of "THIS WAS POSTED A WEEK AGO. IN BEFORE DELETE"
November 20th, 2018 at 2:02 PM ^
Hopefully instead the responses are "Who cares right now? Just beat Northwestern to win the B1G and root for Bama to beat Georgia! CFP, here we come!"
November 20th, 2018 at 2:34 PM ^
You don't care about basketball or MSU right now, but you still felt compelled to click on a post about both of those things...... The mind boggles
November 20th, 2018 at 2:40 PM ^
I'll bet you're fun at parties. A real cut up.
November 20th, 2018 at 3:03 PM ^
Why is this constantly used as an insult? It is something that you'd hear in a movie like superbad, lol.
November 20th, 2018 at 3:13 PM ^
I hate how the timing here lets everyone know that I spent 7+ minutes coming up with a stupid joke.
November 20th, 2018 at 7:41 PM ^
Cuz it’s hilarilus ..... next question.
November 20th, 2018 at 3:10 PM ^
There's really not much to go on one way or the other here, with respect to who'd be more fun to party with. Will either of you lie on my behalf and tell the hosts that I'm there with you and not just trying to steal Fireball?
November 20th, 2018 at 3:45 PM ^
Coming from the guy who clicks on posts about topics "he doesnt care about" just to leave his 2 cents that he doesnt care about it. Sounds like a party animal to me.
November 20th, 2018 at 4:37 PM ^
walk and chew gum Hatter
November 21st, 2018 at 2:25 AM ^
A sampling:
WE SCORED 6 POINTS AGAINST NEBRASKA YOU SENILE FUCK. I DONT WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD FROM YOUR STUPID MOUTH BESIDES “IM SORRY AND DAVE WARNER IS FIRED.”
November 20th, 2018 at 1:38 PM ^
Well, it's better than 3-9. Good to know what the standards are in EL now.
November 20th, 2018 at 1:41 PM ^
Annnnd things have returned to normal when MSU making a bowl game is a success and The Game is for the all the marbles (pretty much).
Please stay normal, B1G ten.
November 20th, 2018 at 2:37 PM ^
But they lost their Super Bowl.
November 20th, 2018 at 3:49 PM ^
The B1G is now the B2G and the Li12le.
November 20th, 2018 at 2:03 PM ^
Mork is now 31-19 since Harbaugh came to Michigan. We are 38-12 in that same time frame. Two programs clearly going in different directions. That's why I so enjoyed the win in East Lansing. That was some seismic shit, restoring order in the B1G. Now on to Columbus to do more of the same. GO BLUE
November 20th, 2018 at 2:30 PM ^
That time frame also includes the single best season in MSU football history. And they're still behind UM
November 21st, 2018 at 2:57 AM ^
I agree looking since 2015 makes sense so we can compare vs. JH.
However, after looking at his history, I would break up Dantonio's results into 3 eras.
They were mediocre for his first three years (07-09). Then he had 5/6 good years between 2010 and 2015. But he's regressed considerably since then as you've noted - just 19-12 in the past three years.
November 21st, 2018 at 3:34 AM ^
Does anyone have a theory on why MSU results have seemed to slump since 2016?
Pretty sure their D has been fine, but their ability to score points has dropped drastically.
Staff hasn't changed much. Same for recruiting. B1G doesn't have a clear trend towards being more competitive.
Maybe it's as simple as Connor Cook >> Brian Lewerke and Le'veon Bell > > LJ Scott??
Recruiting Rank from 24/7
- 2008 - 42
- 2009 - 22
- 2010 - 22
- 2011 - 32
- 2012 - 34
- 2013 - 37
- 2014 - 26
- 2015 - 23
- 2016 - 17
- 2017 - 36
B1G vs other conferences
- 2010 - 8-8
- 2011 - 9-10
- 2012 - 8-11
- 2013 - 7-9
- 2014 - 11-13
- 2015 - 12-13
- 2016 - 9-11
- 2017 - 14-6
- 2018 - 7-5
November 20th, 2018 at 2:10 PM ^
I can't recall any MSU FB player rapes this season. That's an improvement from last year.
November 20th, 2018 at 2:16 PM ^
They have all been swept under the rug. Normal operating procedure. Same as it ever was.
November 20th, 2018 at 2:57 PM ^
FEEL THE HATE
November 20th, 2018 at 4:22 PM ^
Harbaugh could teach him a thing or two about Khaki pants.
November 20th, 2018 at 1:39 PM ^
As long as little brother knows his place and lower the expectation when defining the success, I am happy. Mark Dantonio deserves to be called with his real name because he understands his place in the universe now.
November 20th, 2018 at 1:42 PM ^
"I firmly believe this year will be a success." Emperor Hirohito of Japan, August 7th, 1945
November 20th, 2018 at 1:44 PM ^
Relative to what?
November 20th, 2018 at 3:57 PM ^
Precisely.
Keep moving those goalposts, Mork!
November 20th, 2018 at 1:49 PM ^
Michigan is better at Basketball as of late too.
"Want to retire now?"
November 20th, 2018 at 2:29 PM ^
They look like cousins off the same side of the family stump.
November 20th, 2018 at 2:52 PM ^
Brothers and Cousins.
November 20th, 2018 at 4:19 PM ^
And when you say brother, I assume you don't mean like an actual brother, but you mean it like the way black people use it, which is more meaningful, I think.
November 20th, 2018 at 5:23 PM ^
Or like Hulk Hogan.
November 20th, 2018 at 6:02 PM ^
They are their own grandpas.
November 20th, 2018 at 1:57 PM ^
Well, the 2018 Situation Trophy is on the line this weekend.
November 20th, 2018 at 2:06 PM ^
Ill take an improving Rutgers to win outright over the tire fire that is the MSU offense.
November 20th, 2018 at 2:11 PM ^
I very much hope Rob Ash gets a win over MSU this year.
November 20th, 2018 at 2:54 PM ^
Remember that Rutgers is the only P5 team scoring less than MSU. I think all of the scoring will come from the defenses.
November 20th, 2018 at 2:18 PM ^
This makes me think of the poll of MSU fans a few years ago (I think in Freep or Detroit News) where MSU fans were asked to pick between beating us in football or our football team losing to OSU, and a majority picked the latter. Just think about that. I know we are maybe a little biased but objectively, what a bunch of losers.
November 20th, 2018 at 2:24 PM ^
I can multitask, thanks for sharing
November 20th, 2018 at 2:34 PM ^
I guess he hasn't had to bail any of his players out of jail in a while so that's a success.
November 20th, 2018 at 2:40 PM ^
Kind of sounds like Dantonio is trying to sell hope.
November 20th, 2018 at 2:46 PM ^
No players arrested in season? That might be a success for them.
November 20th, 2018 at 4:01 PM ^
We criticize the B1G higher-ups a lot, but you have to give them credit for finding the perfect way for State to end their football season: Rutgers.
November 20th, 2018 at 6:07 PM ^
Anyone know how much tickets are going for in EL this week? Think I can find a seat?
November 20th, 2018 at 6:54 PM ^
It's going to get better when Rutgers beats them, lol
November 21st, 2018 at 2:22 AM ^
That's not so outlandish. Rutgers is awfully fiesty and seems to be playing better as the season has gone on.
November 20th, 2018 at 4:33 PM ^
They talked about what Dantonio said on the radio here and......yeah, I guess you can say whatever you please in a game where you lost AND set the sport back to pre-WWII levels.