Vayante Copeland no longer with MSU
before I even saw your full post.
Will the last man leaving East Lansing please put out the couch fires
I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you don't have the type of life that elicitis pleasure in many other departments.
Your wild guess is dead-wrong. Mine probably isn't.
Do you know how witless and non-sensical that sig is by the way? Perhaps you should accusing me from being from Ohio now too!
Quit being gumpy
Doctor JAAAAAAAAAAAWS.
Fucking redneck.
You find it incredible that any Michigan fan could be disgusted with the Wal-Mart culture of this board that you epitomize?
I have never heard of this before and can't find anything on google or wikipedia.
I am hoping this refers to a future campus being build in either Louisiana or Los Angeles so that we can host football camps under the new rules.
This isn't a surprise, but still it's pretty amazing. There's a real chance that MSU will be demonstrably the worst team in a conference with Rutgers, Purdue, and Illinois.
Never count out Rutgers to display unbelievable levels of suck.
It's more an indictment of MSU than any faith in Rutgers. But right now, Rutgers may actually have scholarship FBS talent at most spots of their 2-deep. MSU could be pulling dudes from the stands in the fall just to fill in the team picture.
step back a minute
they will still beat Rutgers by 21+
Maybe, but it's fair to say Rutgers is the demonstrably more stable program right now. Which is insane to say about a team that lost 375-0* against anyone with a pulse last year.
* citation needed.
...for keeping the summer sports news cycle moderately interesting.
Here's something from one of their beat writers.
CB Vayante Copeland no longer on MSU roster.
Directly from Dantonio:
1). Not sure if Smith will be able to play again
2). Hasn't made a final decision on Cooper but he is "paying the consequences" (He won't be back)
3). Paulino-Bell is not with the other freshman right now.
Was Smith involved in the fight at Cedar Village Apartments?
I watched a video of a fight in January or February at Cedar Village. And I thought that people were saying some football players were involved. It was on the Lansing State Journal website.
My guess is that Mork will be given the year to fix things. But I think it's going to be very difficult to come back from this. If we pound them this year it may the end for him in EL.
They should have beaten BYU, Indiana, and Illinois last year.
Definitely agree on Illinois but BYU and IU were decent teams last season (moreso BYU). I wasn't surprised to see MSU lose to either, though I was surprised with how easy BYU made it look (of course that was only at the early stages of MSU's freefall).
You don't just walk into High Point Solutions Stadium and expect to win!
Western Michigan has recruited at a pretty high level, and hasn't seen insane amounts of attrition. Losing PJ Fleck sucks, but they may legitimately be more talented.
At what point do we start to see people transferring because they want to get out of the dumpster fire, which would in turn just fuel the dumpster fire?
I could have sworn that someone just posted that Dantini had just denied the rumors that Copeland, a high character kid, was about to exit.
PANTS ON FIRE!!!
the statement that Copeland AND Bowers have been thrown off the team has yet to be proven true. #splittinghairs
Dude is becoming a parody of himself.
MSU looks pretty bad, for sure, but it's hard to not see them winning at least 4 games.
They've got WMU, Rutgers, and Bowling Green on the schedule, which seem like near locks.
Maryland (3-6 in B1G last year) and Indiana (big losses in players and coaching) at home look like probable wins.
Then they still have Minnesota and Northwestern on the schedule, which could be toss ups or probable losses.
Michigan, OSU, PSU, Notre Dame, and Iowa all seem like very probable losses.
I think they win five games, but if they don't drop a gimme and get some decent O-line play, I could easily see them squeaking into a low-level bowl game. Seven wins feels like the ceiling though.
Always starts slow, even when they're good. There are zero locks on that schedule with 73 scholarship players. Just average injuries and attrition through the year wil put them down to 65 players. It's going to be a very long year for Sparty, well deserved.
I wasn't even going to include last year's team, but hell even they started relatively quick out of the gates with the ND win.
2015- 8-0
2014- 7-1
2013- 7-1
2012- 4-4 (crap season)
I mean, I am all for bashing MSU, but at least pick the correct facts.
MSU did kind of start slow the past 2 years...
2016, yes they beat Notre Dame as you say, but ND went 4-8...the game before that they struggled against Furman. Then they crapped their pants the rest of the season until Rutgers after the ND game.
2015, they did win the BigTen, but they struggled in a lot of those early games. It was a 1 score game into the 4th Quarter against Central Michigan. Oregon had a down year. Purdue and Rutgers nearly got MSU. WMU was inside the 5 yardline and threw a silly pick, had it went for a TD, WMU would have been kicking for an onside for a chance to win the game. They beat Air Force by 2 TDs, but it was due to big plays on Defense. Air Force had more than 100 more yards of offense.
They won, right? Are we going to get into the science of starting slow on a very micro level with a quarter basis? Shit, Michigan started slow against Hawaii, they threw a pick on the first play.
WMU has quite a few returning starters on both sides of the ball. They lose a couple key contributors on offense, but for the first game of the season, I think the Broncos come out with a bigger chip on their shoulder than sparty and steal sparty's milk money.
Rutgers/BG, year, those should be wins. Michigan, PSU, OSU, Iowa are losses. The rest are possibilities either way IMO.
Frankly, I just don't think this team will have the horses or strength of character/leadership to make a bowl game.