Austin Robertson, who you might remember as the recruit who had misdemeanor battery charges against him and Mork still accepted his letter of intent...
http://www.mlive.com/spartans/index....uston_rob.html
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Austin Robertson, who you might remember as the recruit who had misdemeanor battery charges against him and Mork still accepted his letter of intent...
http://www.mlive.com/spartans/index....uston_rob.html
And he was arrested.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/f...hip-police-say
I'm going to guess that the NCAA is going to hit them hard. Lack of Institutional Control and all that jazz. Expect serious scholarship cuts. This program is dead in the water.
Keep wishing...
Yeah, things are going well
http://amp.mlive.com/v1/articles/202...scates_dec.amp
http://www.mlive.com/articles/200572..._decommits.amp
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So MSU President cries that there's nothing they could have done to prevent the violation of over 80 different female gymnast and get her face melted by one of the gymnast. Beginning to sound like Penn State over there at MSU. Blame someone else, but don't ever take responsibility.
http://deadspin.com/gymnast-writes-o...s-w-1794844898
They are going after the doc and should be going after the Gymnastics coach that was covering for him. I still think they should have fired the softball coaches too.
It's official Corley, Vance, and King. This makes 6 recruits gone from 2016 class. 4 of the their top 7.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/spo...ult/102544556/
I'm glad this is over with. Time to get back to football. These three guys thru a good thing away over one night of pussy. I'm glad these guys are gone. I'm sorry Blackwell was none-tendered.
For the team, it's closure. No more guessing. As for the rapes, I hope the judge throws the book at them.
The off-season has sucked. These 4 jackasses and two others who would have started are gone. I hope the other 16 from 2016 will step up. Still an extremely young team. If the team is reasonably healthy, I see a 7-5 season. Recruiting this year is going good. I hope it continues.
More players dropping from the Spartans. Cassius Peat who was supposedly coming back this year after taking a year off for academics. is now not coming back. Vayante Copeland is now no longer with the team as well.
Can the Spartans even field a team this fall? I'm thinking 6-6 is the ceiling for this team this year.
I'm going with 7-5...and I'll be happy at 7-5.
Peat and Copeland have basically been kicked off the team. Dantonio won't give reasons. This will be a very young team.
The Peat one is fishy. he's saying he was told if he came back, he'd be good to play. Now Dantonio is saying no. Going to be some bad blood there.
I think there was something else going on. Seriously, if this is what it takes to get back on track, it's OK. It's like the Rather Hall BS.
Time for some predictions as we're about 60 days out.
UM
vs FL - W
vs Cin - W
vs Air Force - W
@ Purdue - W
vs MSU - W
@ IN - W
@ PSU - L
vs Rut - W
vs Min - W
@ MD - W
@ WI - L
vs OSU - W
Final Record: 10 - 2
OSU
@ IN - W
vs OK - W
vs Army - W
vs UNLV - W
vs Rut - W
vs MD - W
@ Neb - W
vs PSU - W
@ IA - W
vs MSU - W
vs IL - W
@ UM - L
Final Record 11 - 1
MSU
vs BG - W
vs W Mich - W
vs ND - L
vs IA - L
@ UM - L
@ MN - W
vs IN - L
vs NW - W
vs PSU - L
@ OSU - L
vs MD - L
@ Rut - W
Final Record 5 - 7
Bumping up. 3 weeks out.
LOL did you see the write up MGOBLOG did on their opponent watch series for MSU?
http://mgoblog.com/content/opponent-...ew-part-1#more
Last year:
https://media.giphy.com/media/MXkV72GrMFiVi/giphy.gif3-9 (1-8 B1G), no bowl but retained dignity
Recap: To break the fourth wall, dear reader, let me bring you into my living room. I sit here with a Bell’s Two Hearted in hand. My fingers have been hovering over the keyboard for several minutes. No words have come. No snark. No jokes. No pity. Nothing. I've got nothing.
Michigan State’s 2016 season and subsequent offseason were so impossibly cataclysmic that even now, 49 weeks removed from their struggling opening win over Furman, I still can’t fully grasp the thing. This was Michigan State as Icarus flying too close to the couch fire. It was Lockheed Martin programming an entire Big Ten football program in feet instead of meters. It was Captain Smith ramming a defending B1G Champion and College Football Playoff semifinalist directly into an iceberg as a string quartet played “Nearer My Brah To Thee.”
Surely I need not recount Sparty’s failures to you, but for convention requires that I do so anyway. They lost nine games. They lost an assistant and 5% of their scholarship players (including the cream of their best recruiting class in years) to unspeakably unpleasant criminal situations. On national signing day alone they lost one target to South Alabama, another target to a walk-on slot at Northwestern, and a commit to felony charges. They lost another half-dozen projected starters or contributors to, and I quote, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
It’s hard to even identify the low point; on the field, it was proooooobably the loss to Illinois, though the four week stretch with losses to Indiana, BYU, Northwestern, and Maryland may be cumulatively worse. Meanwhile, the off-field stuff rivals any series of player-specific calamities I can recall for a single school. The only thing comparable was the fate that befell Mr. Burns' softball team.
But other than that, things are looking up in East Lansing.
When last we saw them:
http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com...nity_thumb.jpgThis team is as frightening as: Hoooo boy. This is a dilemma. If this was an identical set of circumstances, returning talent and coaching at, say, Minnesota, they would be like a Fear Level 3. But out of sheer reflexive fear of reviving the #Disrespekt Monster, I’ll say Fear Level = 5
Michigan should worry about: LJ Scott ran for 139 yards on 22 carries against Michigan last year, and you will recall that those were definitely not garbage time carries.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: Michigan State registered eleven sacks last year. Eleven. That is one more than Michigan got from guys named Taco.
When they play Michigan:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5345/3...3bc137be_o.gif
First game: vs. Bowling Green, noon, ESPNU
Michigan landed a pair of 5 star DL recruits for 2018 this week :)
We're getting close! 2 weeks and the fun starts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTMu8UKJ-CA#t=2.579376
Where are all the shit talkers? Swift? Smooth? Hangem? you all get lost?
Should be a good season for both UM and OSU. I'm curious to see how the off-season changes work for the Buckeyes. UM has a few question marks, but I'm sure they'll field the same tough squad that we're getting used to. I'm still not sure where I got the "shit-talker" tag....:dunno:
Because you do talk shit. Not as blatantly stupid as some, but you do talk it. We all do.
Big games this week. Predictions...
OSU 42 IU 17
UM 24 UF 17
Bama 35 FSU 14
And we're off and running to the best time of the year....Gonna be an interesting season!
I think Michigan starts slow with the young class of players, but then get it dialed against Cin, AF, and Purdue.
These players, while young, are hand picked to fit Harbaugh's system. They will be good this year, but they will be nat'l champ contenders next season.
vs FL - L
vs Cin - W
vs Air Force - W
@ Purdue - W
vs MSU - W
@ IN - W
@ PSU - W
vs Rut - W
vs Min - W
@ MD - W
@ WI - L
vs OSU - W
I see Michigan beating Florida but losing to Penn State other wise you are spot on Justin,. Penn State is a dark horse in the big 10
The bump that made me pick UM over FL was the suspensions and turmoil around the QB situation. They also lost quite a bit of their team as well. I think it'll be close (not 41-7) but UM will win.
PSU is last years Iowa. Doesn't matter if we should beat them, it's a tough place to play during a white out at night.
Favorite thing I saw today.
"That's not a tackle, that's a team meeting"
https://j.gifs.com/mw70VO.gif
OK, let's get the season going. If Florida didn't have all the suspensions, I'd go with the Gators beating the Stink Bears.
UM
vs FL - W
vs Cin - W
vs Air Force - W
@ Purdue - W
vs MSU - L
@ IN - W
@ PSU - L
vs Rut - W
vs Min - W
@ MD - W
@ WI - W
vs OSU - L
Final Record: 9-3
OSU
@ IN - W
vs OK - W
vs Army - W
vs UNLV - W
vs Rut - W
vs MD - W
@ Neb - W
vs PSU - W
@ IA - W
vs MSU - W
vs IL - W
@ UM - W
Final Record 12-0
MSU
vs BG - W
vs W Mich - W
vs ND - L
vs IA - W
@ UM - W
@ MN - L
vs IN - W
vs PSU - L
@ OSU - L
vs MD - W
@ Rut - W
Final Record 8-4
vs FL - W
vs Cin - W
vs Air Force - W
@ Purdue - W
vs MSU - W
@ IN - W
@ PSU - W
vs Rut - W
vs Min - W
@ MD - W
@ WI - L
vs OSU - W
I see the games at Penn State and Wisconsin as the defining ones for the season. I think they will win one and lose one... I went with the early win and late season loss because it's more devastating to the season overall and that's just Murphy's Law
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Florida just lost their best running back to a suspension.
Good start for MSU in spite of the mistakes. The next two weeks will say a lot about this team heading into B1G play.
Michigan defense looks scary
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