Vayante Copeland no longer with MSU
Maryland is going to be better than 3-6 next year. I think they beat MSU. The game is in EL in late Nov. MSU will be fully imploding by then after losses to PSU and OSU.
Agree about Maryland. They've recruited well and are on the right track, I think. But their schedule is brutal. @Texas, @OSU, @Wiscy, @Minny, @MSU, vs M, vs PSU. That's some tough sledding.
Playing MSU will be easier by comparison.
Strong players comng out of the state of Michigan coming up so they just needed to add room for them all.
I am thinking more like 39 points...
...possibly even 210.
(that was my first attempt at that joke)
Someone will surely do the humane thing and remind them of how many people - at minimum - you should have to field a football team, yes? I mean, it has to end somewhere with someone left to play, even if the longsnapper has to do spot QB duty, they need at least a few people or that Bowling Green game ends up being the first of 12 trap games.
Have you ever been to College Station, Texas? It's the opposite of Oregon. Just a dusty, broiling parking lot. Depressing as hell.
that's true. It's sad when a chunk of the student body goes to other colleges to party but football is HUGE there.
MSU is like one of those small town high schools with a woefully small team. Any D1 7 on 7 leagues they can play in for a few years?
If all this attrition wasn't painful enough, the real pain will be the second half of the season, after the usual course of injuries further depletes them, and at some positions they go from 2nd-stringers to 3rd stringers. A road trip to OSU is their 10th game of the year... That could be a destruction of epic proportions.
their fans must be thrilled to see the product on the field
the amount of times Dantonio used the phrase "things of that nature" in the presser was more than three. (I'm assuming it's less than nine, though.)
(seriously who TALKS like that?)
I'm always leery that I'm biased, because I always tend to think the risk is to the downside for our opponents and upside for Michigan. But...
The risk is to the downside for Sparty this year. Starters at 4 of the 5 OL positions are questionable. Have an injury and whoah. DE is OK if Bowers and Cooper return. If they don't or there is an injury whoah. LB depth looks shaky. Who's going to play CB and safety? Injury at either spot and whoah. WR is whoah. TE is probably whoah but not even enough data to whoah.
But the biggest downside risk may be QB. Lewerke is the one bright spot where their fans are pinning their upside hopes (besides Scott and the RBs, but those are a known quantity). Watch their spring game and he made some terrible throws. His receivers are new or not that good or both. His OL is going to get him hit plenty and the run game won't be consistent enough to take the pressure off. His stats weren't that impressive last year and very limited. Yes he looks like he has composure. He's going to need it. If they develop a QB question early in the year... whoah.
Whoah.
I like our chances this year :)
I never want to doubt Dantonio too much, as he is the epitome of doing more with less, but I'd be surprised if they make it to bowl eligibility this year.
We better DESTROY them this year. Im talking no mercy 48-10 Notre Dame recruiting style
"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." --- so says every English translation of the Bible, this one is from the King James version
Pride does not come before a fall....that's nonsense.