Greg Jones is your Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week
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Jones has earned a split honor earlier this year. This also marks the seventh consecutive week where at least one MSU player has won a player of the week honor from the conference.
Stanzi is your OPOTW, Gilreath is your STPOTW, Rob Henry is your freshman of the week.
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is so impressive. kudos to Greg Jones. it’d be nice to see Conroy get a nod – he’s been money.
Congrats to Greg Jones
He definitely played a very good game, but he may not have been the best player on our defense against the Illini. Hoover played a great game as well.
Apparently
Schools nominate their players for these awards. MSU picked Jones instead of Hoover and Wisconsin inexplicably did not nominate JJ Watt. This probably made Jones a pretty clear choice for the league.
by Con-T on Oct 18, 2010 12:44 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
National honors for Jones, Conroy, Muma
According to the MSU athletic department website Jones was named Walter Camp Football Foundation National Defensive Player of the Week and Conroy and Muma were tabbed for National Placekicker of the Week and National Kickoff Specialist of the Week respectively by College Football Performance Awards.
MUUUUUMAAAAAA!!!
For some reason, I feel compelled to yell that every time he kicks off.
Fight for The Only Colors: Green and White!
by KJ@theonlycolors on Oct 18, 2010 1:52 PM CDT up reply actions
congrats MSU and Greg Jones
We need to be careful before we start thinking BCS rankings and BCs bowl game. I have two words cautious optimism….
Here is yahoo’s take on week 8.
Don’t overlook this one: Michigan State at Northwestern, noon, ESPN. After a 7-0 start, the Spartans have reason to hope they will land in the BCS. Michigan State has three road games remaining, against Northwestern, Iowa and Penn State. Northwestern is the first opponent Michigan State has played outside of its home state. Evan at 5-1, Northwestern remains a question mark. The Wildcats have not played a challenging schedule and the loss came to Purdue.
NU is an odd duck
I’ve liked them a lot over the last few years and really think Fitz is doing a good job of building that program.
HOWEVER, they have looked completely mediocre so far this year. They lost to a total MASH unit last week, and have been played fairly even by a handful of mediocre schools. Their special teams are bad, they have a poor running game and it’s hard to take seriously a team that gave up more than 25 points to the Brewster led Gophers.
Es gibt keine Freude wie Schadenfreude
Dan Persa...
… is still an accurate quarterback in the passing game. I’m wondering if comparisons can be drawn with the Notre Dame game in terms of what we’ll be facing.
by ShawHall2006 on Oct 18, 2010 3:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes, but it's a massive trap game.
And weird things happen in MSU-NW games. I’ll stop being nervous when that clock reads :00 for the fourth time, and not one nanosecond sooner.
This game indeed always has twists in it
Tonight's going to be a good night.
by Spartalytical on Oct 19, 2010 10:35 AM CDT up reply actions
Their offensive style can be a pain....
They will nickel & dime us to death if we sit back in a soft zone. Need to play some press coverage, and jam their receivers off the line. DBs have to be sound tackling in space (which is something they’ve done pretty well this year)
NU does a lot of quick drops and quick throws, so pass rush on the QB won’t be a huge factor (although it’s always better to get pressure than not). On the occassions that NU does go for longer pass routes, the DL must get pressure without too much blitz help.
Worst case it could look like ND again, but I think our D has improved since then, and the NU receivers are not as good as ND’s were. Persa might be more accurate than Crist at this point though. (ND vs. NU would probably be a pretty tight matchup head-to-head.)
I don’t think we can hope for 3 more INTs from our D this week, and are gonna have to generate some actual stops on downs.
On offense, we should rush for 200+ on this D. Our OL should be pissed off at the way they got largely handled by Illinois, and they better be out for blood this week. Some timely, mistake-free tosses from Cousins should put us over the top. Cousins has worried me with the way he throws off his back foot so much – there were a couple close calls in the Illinois game that should/could have been picked off. Eventually one of those back-foot throws is gonna get intercepted.
I think the back-foot thing is a product of being rushed- the OL has to protect him better.
My prediction MSU 31, NU 20 (with a late Bell rushing TD to ice it)
This team is on the verge of
ridding themselves of the ghosts of Bobby Williams and John Slappy Smith. Need dance of joy, or, karma will be threatened.
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