Illinois 23, Michigan State 20 (final)

[Fungo Squiggly]

I love the fact he calls the president of the university clueless when he does not even know the last name of the football coach.

I suspect it was an inside joke of some sort.

 

[Bucks07]

Goodbye Mr. Smith.

 

[sandgk]

From the Sparty Board:

Hoping for some white knight to ride in and save the MSU football program will never materialize! You need to fire that idiot, moron, clueless coach!!! NOW!!! How much embarassment is MSU willing to take?

Man, they are hurting - they can't decide whether to throw history in the face of Smith's past gig (Univ of Lousiville), thrive in their common despair, or vent spleen at John L Smith.

Well, I guess they do all agree that Smith is classless, clueless, and has to go.

 

[akronbuck]

The detroit Taliban are recruiting SMITH now

 

[MolGenBuckeye]

Indiana and Purdue will also be sure losses.

 

[BuckeyeSoldier]

I love the fact he calls the president of the university clueless when he does not even know the last name of the football coach. Classic Spartan football fan! MSU will always be a BB school.

Williams was a previous coach there. Its a jab.

 

[DiamondBuck]

Right on time....

 

[DaytonBuck]

Did anybody see the press conference afterwards?

 

[jlb1705]

Sparty being Sparty.

 

[ulukinatme]

Wow, JLS in the post game...lost it there. I love how he admits they deserved to plant the flag on their field, then he says he tried to break it up, then pauses...and waits....and slaps himself I'm not sure if that was supposed to be a reference to Weis in the ND game last week, we all heard how much JLS was whining about that fight on the sidelnes last week, complaining to the NCAA or whatever his spat was about. The MSU team just can't stay out of trouble, they should have never gotten into all of this "flag planting" crap. They brought it on themselves, I love how they tried to defend the 50 yard line last week too...too bad the Irish were classier than them.

by the transitive property, i guess that makes notre dame as good as illinois

Transitive property doesn't apply to football Besides, would you really want to say that ND is better than OSU since they had no problems running over Penn State all game? :) Look at it this way, ND just initiated the Sparty meltdown in the 3rd quarter last week, rather than letting Sparty begin AFTER the game as usual.

BTW, speaking of Sparty meltdowns, here was a great one from a Michigan sportcaster. Really unbelieveable. He does a lot of screaming, starts sayin' some crazy stuff about the halfway mark, and generally was very entertaining
http://houserockbuilt.blogspot.com/2006/09/msu-radio-host-melts-fucking-down-on.html

Anyway, two games in a row now with MSU fearing a midfield flag plant, this time Illinois goes ahead and does it. Is this going to be a new MSU tradition?

 

[Jaxbuck]

Lets just hope scUM continues the Sparty collapse and gives them no wake up call whatsoever. We need them quietly left alone to continue their own self destruction.

I don't think Tress would ever let happen what happened under Coop in '98 but I prefer to let sleeping dogs lie. Contrary to what Herbie and everyone else are saying, Sparty at EL is the last game we could lose before The Game.

 

[Bucklion]

Lets just hope scUM continues the Sparty collapse and gives them no wake up call whatsoever. We need them quietly left alone to continue their own self destruction.

I don't think Tress would ever let happen what happened under Coop in '98 but I prefer to let sleeping dogs lie. Contrary to what Herbie and everyone else are saying, Sparty at EL is the last game we could lose before The Game.

Actually Herbie last night was right on the mark, when he said there is no way of ever knowing which Michigan State team will show up. Right now, they are shit, but they could be angry and desperate with nothing to lose when we play them.

Wait, I just gave them a chance, maybe I should slap myself

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

That MSU radio meltdown is nothing short of outstanding.

 

[rocketman]

That MSU radio meltdown is nothing short of outstanding.

That was even better than the J. L. Smith halftime meltdown last year! Texas fans reading this...would it be safe to say MSU is the "Aggy" of the Big 10? Meltdowns and choke-jobs...just Sparty being Sparty!

Having said that, MSU, no matter how shitty they play, is always good for atleast one upset. Here's hoping that the patented MSU midseason collapse is in full swing by the time we get to them.

 

[Channel Surfer]

I can not believe that Illinois beat MSU.