Elliott Takes Shot at Dantonio for Guaranteeing Win for Spartans #DontGuaranteeWinsCoach

As a general rule of thumb OP I like your posts but this one methinks you're stretching a bit.  I think MarkyMark is as big of tool-douchebag-asswipe-dickface-prick-jerkoff-fuckfaced-miserable sonofabitch as anybody but in this case what's he suppose to say?

For me anyways that was a real tough game to watch or get excited about on any level. I cant stand either team and whatever joy I got in watching the loser lose was wiped out by the realization that the winner won.  The sooner that game just goes away for me the better.

 

I realize that we suck and whatnot; we've only beaten one team with a winning record.  You know what other team has only beaten one team with a winning record?  MSU.

They got their asses kicked by the two good teams they faced this year, and they're out of the playoff picture. They're greatest achievement this season is beating an incompetent Michigan team. That is all, and that is good.

Put a stake in him.

My favorite guarantee from yesterday was Pat Fitzgerald's promise of no overtime.

that could've come from this game. OSU winning means likely no Big10 team in playoff, which is as should be, but I was hoping both teams would look putrid in OSU winning (you know, like what happened in Evanston yesterday?). That was the best possible of a lousy set of possibilities

"I'm honestly not sure we can beat Des Moines Tech. They block. They tackle. They have a heck of a quarterback. We're going to have to play the game of our lives.""

What's the time Mork?

Its time to get ill. 

I stopped caring about Dantonio a long time ago

Winners get to write the history.  Just win.

Dantonio.

It seems like some people here are misreading others' thoughts and feelings on this. It's not like I'm going to walk into work tomorrow morning giving my Sparty coworkers a bunch of shit about losing. I'm not going to say a word about it. I'm aware of what happened two weeks ago, and know I have nothing to say even if State somehow lost out the rest of the year. It's not like I'm going to live vicariously through Buckeye fans and say, "Ha! Yeah! Better not run your mouth next time, Mark!". I'm simply going to be quietly content that they aren't going to the Playoff, and that their coach whose Disrespect Detector is perpetually turned up to 11 is getting a taste of his own whiny medicine. I don't see what's wrong with that.

Dantonio is a great coach. His system works. However, he has become a smug, arrogant, dick. I'm sick of his mouth. I can only hope our program will be resurrected soon because there would be nothing more gratifying than rubbing shit in his face (in an inconspicuous way, of course).

Quit drinking and go to bed.

Why are you are anyone on this board happy that Ohio state won!? Yeah ok so msu lost woo I hate them too but it's Ohio you never root for osu no matter the circumstance what in the hell is wrong with you people

I've always cheered for meteors when those teams play, but seeing MSU just get abused after whining two weeks ago was kind of fun. But yeah, it should come as a shock to no one that Dantonio is a hypocrite.

I understand that misery over company and it helps to throw stones at tormentors like it's the Gaza Strip and this will change our stated our stated outcomes. But though I did revel in the smugness of dantonio, I thought the whole thing had a deeper lesson. The one thing I have respected about MSU (not liked mind you but respected) is that they have a singular cultural fabric and they play to it! They ARE the persecuted little brother and this forces a sense of unity to both the coaching staff and each other. The kids in that program are ALL in. Bought into persecution, bought into proving themselves, bought into the commonality of a goal and bought into executing as a team almost in a militaristic style a cohesive, unified game plan and culture in everything the program is. Then the ONE time dantonio goes from persecuted to prideful he absolutely gets his crap handed to him. Call it karma, or cosmic justice or whatever but now you can see how a persecution complex fuels them. They do not have enough natural talent such that they can just freelance and hope for the best outcome. They programmatically know that and put themselves in a unified way to play to their strengths against each opponent. They broke that cultural edict and I think it contributed to the loss. The switch from persecution to pride is a cultural shift they need to make to drive desirability This is Michigans problem currently. The reaction to the previous regime is to become Bo's Michigan even at the cost of personnel or capability. Force feed that as the metric of culture because that is what you are hired to do and it will unite the fractured administration and fanbase and because this is Michigan fergodsakes. I think the culture at Michigan football has to change. I don't see a team committed to a common cause. I see a team that is fractured in coaching, scheme, and understanding. We couldn't commit to RR culturally, derided him endlessly and then honestly we hired his diametric opposite and told him to be the diametric opposite. Literally that his explicit purpose in existence is to be antithetical. It's now a soft, family first atmosphere with accountability but lots of entitlement. And a fixed desire to not adapt to personnel but steadfastly hold the cultural line of doing things the "Michigan way". It all speaks to you unified vision that has passionate commitment from everyone. Game plans can be different but you need a singular vision from the top down of what you are going to be - not based on an entitlement structure that appears so ingrained in the culture that we can't even see how flawed we are as a team. This is the bottom which has to be for the top to occur.