Postgame Thread of Spectacular Whatever the Heck That Was: MSU 35, Purdue 31
by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 20, 2010 3:14 PM CST
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PrintWe're into a real gray area here: Uberdramatic comeback win against a crippled team at home. What the heck:
10-1. I have no other words.
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Your joy is our sorrow
Still trying figure out how we choked this one away. Just unbeliavable. Great effort by your guys not quitting. Horrible playcalling and execution on our offense.
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I hate to pile on
But your coach’s play calling late in the game made me wonder if he was trying to let MSU back into it.
Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude
you're not the only one
we’re all pissed
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I just feel bad for you guys
I’m sorry about that crappy football game. And that really sucks about Robbie Hummel. You don’t deserve that.
It’s not your fault
http://motivationalsmartass.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/its-not-your-fault.jpg
I yelled so loud on the blocks punt that Coach Tom Izzo pissed himself. (Coach Tom Izzo is my dog). Go Green!
And it pains me to say this, but Go Hawkeyes!
by Spartan D on Nov 20, 2010 3:24 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Maybe this will wake these guys up.
Or maybe we’re doomed. I don’t know which.
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I put their chances of a win @PSU at 5%.
Then 1% in Capital One vs. Alabama. (I rounded up). Still, 10 wins is 10 wins.
Should have gone with this maybe?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xq0KmfKqwY
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 20, 2010 3:40 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
That seems to capture it perfectly
It makes no sense but still leaves me slightly more happy than rageohol’d.
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Sometimes, it is better to be lucky than good.
Cousins had the worst of games and the best of time (thanks Joel Foreman).
Why is Cousins getting worse and where is the freaking running attack?
Love the win, no matter how we got it, but I am scratching my head a bit with Cousins – he is less consistent and almost seems to have taken a step backwards in these past 3-4 weeks. Also wondering why we cannot run the ball on a JV team like Purdue.
by MCBATX on Nov 20, 2010 5:08 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Well
Take out the QB losses and MSU averaged 5 yards per run today.
Cousins had a couple very bad throws but he completed 75% of his passes. And you have to account for the fact he barely looked he could walk at times today.
Offense wasn’t great, but the loss would have been more on the defense if the team hadn’t come back. Only Big Ten team to allow more yards to Purdue than MSU did today was Minnesota.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 20, 2010 5:29 PM CST up reply actions
Re: Cousins
He told the press afterward that he’s been battling a sprain in both his foot and shoulder. Makes a lot of sense if you watch him play:
I’ve been battling a sprained ankle and sprained shoulder three or four weeks now and they just don’t heal when you keep playing on them. I’ve been battling and getting a lot of treatment on but they are very tender so when you get driven into the ground or twisted in the pile it’s not going to react to well. Sprains are something that you can keep playing as long as you can handle the pain but it slows you down. There was a point in time I was close to pulling myself out of the game and not trying to be the hero because it’s about the team and not me, but I have to give credit to our training staff who I talked with at halftime and they encouraged me to stay in there and I think that helped us get the win.
Dammit Iowa!
Now I hate the Hawkeyes more than ever. Can’t count on them for anything! Now I’m forced to root for the rodents next week
by Spartan D on Nov 20, 2010 5:42 PM CST via mobile reply actions
-1
I’m rooting for Ohio State. If MSU wanted to win the big ten they should have taken care of business or not scheduled middle school girls teams to start the year. I’m never going to root for UM.
Also - not to say I'm not happy for MSU and 10 wins...
but it feels like MSU is a team with a really good record and not necessarily a really good team. Their record just doesn’t give me the ‘they will beat whoever they are playing next’ feeling that a record like that should.
Except we're ahead in the computers.
What’s killing us is more the fact that we started the year unranked and lost more recently than Wisconsin and OSU, because that’s all the pollsters pay attention to.
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Agree
I’m not sure that a BCS bowl—and getting seriously outclassed there—is the best thing for this program. Better to go into next season with a bit of a chip on their shoulders.
I think that MSU is a good football team that has had a pretty good run of luck this year. And last year they were a good football team with a run of bad luck. Change two plays this year and the team would be 8-3. Change two plays last year and the team would have finished the regular season 8-4. Of course, this year’s team has had the knack of making the plays in the deciding moments too…but my point is that some of these wins depended upon good fortune as much as solid football.
This is still progress, especially when viewed with a 5-year frame of reference, eh? I hope that the progress will continue in the next couple of seasons, when we’ll see MSU put away lesser opponents without 4th quarter drama.
Not rooting for UM is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Honestly, the whole “little brother” attitude is encompassed in that sentiment. Being more concerned with UM losing than our team making the ROSE BOWL- huge for our program’s national recognition- is just sad. The Big Ten season is a grind, and we are talking about 18-22 year old men. MSU has taken care of business for every game of the year except one, they don’t deserve punishment that harsh. Not to mention the Rose Bowl will likely be against a beatable Non-AQ team, and the alternative is to get absolutely crushed in the Capital One Bowl against Alabama.
Good point re: Alabama
Playing TCU, VA Tech, or Pitt would be preferable (TCU less so than the other two, but still).
I am, of course, on record as being pro-being-pro-Michigan when the situation requires it. Although I have a really hard time seeing UM pulling off the upset; offense becoming less consistent, defense staying just as porous.
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by KJ@theonlycolors on Nov 20, 2010 7:30 PM CST up reply actions
true to an extent...
…but considering the time we play our game, rooting for UM seems premature. this is much like 2008, where we were supposed to root for UM, even though we all suspected we’d get blow’d out at penn state. and after UM lost, that is exactly what we did.
so i won’t be rooting for UM. i will be glad if OSU loses, because that is something we will need to go to the rose bowl. but i will worry about MSU taking care of its own business before i worry about rooting for other teams.
Oddly enough
If we win, an OSU loss is obviously good. If we lose, we probably want them to win, as there’s a serious chance the Big Ten only gets one BCS bid if the at-large candidates are both 10-2. An Outback Bowl trip after a season this good would be a bit of a letdown.
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You're kidding, right?
You’re actually going to root against MSU going to the Rose Bowl? Some fan…
by nickexperience on Nov 20, 2010 8:04 PM CST up reply actions
I don't know about you all
but I am rooting for both Michigan and Northwestern next weekend.
by CPT Hoolie on Nov 20, 2010 8:56 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
Michigan more importantly
I’d kind of like Wisconsin to get by if that part comes true (which it won’t) because then we get two BCS teams.
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Not to mention
MSU hasn’t exactly been shy with their scheduling lately. coming down the pipe are notre dame, miami, alabama, west virginia, wisconsin, penn state, iowa, nebraska, ohio state, michigan
And it's not like Miami or AzSt is a whole lot better than Notre Dame either.
We didn’t schedule as well as Iowa or Penn State this year, but neither did OSU or Wisconsin.
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BCS
More BCS money for Tressel to funnel to his players.
by eriksmithdotcom on Nov 20, 2010 6:13 PM CST reply actions
All of my thoughts on the team/game can be summed up by this video:
by RickTheBloggerMartel on Nov 20, 2010 6:14 PM CST reply actions
Meme Alert!
When MSU is passed by a 9-2 Arkansas squad and drops lower in both the AP and BCS after struggling with a bad Purdue squad at home, while LSU remains ahead of Wisconsin after struggling with a horrible Mississippi team at home; Remember, it is LSU struggled because it plays in such a tougher conference while MSU struggled because it is inconsistent.
For what it’s worth: all seven of Purdue’s losses have come to bowl eligible squads. Ole Miss has lost at a bad Tennessee team, a horrible Vandy squad and I-AA Jacksonville State – at home.
Let's worry about this when it actually happens, shall we?
I don’t think it too unlikely that it will, because the voters are idiots, but let’s not preemptively complain.
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Amazingly, it didn't
The computers are the ones who have us below Alabama and Arkansas; the polls have us ahead.
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My short two cents on OSU vs UM
It’s win-win as far as I’m concerned and I don’t sweat it much. Honestly, I’d like to see UM win, save RichRod’s job, and send MSU to the Rose Bowl. However, if the worst thing that happens next week is that MSU beats Penn State but gets denied a Rose Bowl bid because Michigan loses, I’ll take that too. If we can beat PSU, it’s allllllll good.
That was terrible and amazing all at the same time.
I never would have guessed that game would have even been a game. No idea what happened. But that’s what I get for texting my buddy at the end of the 3rd asking if this was really happening.
Nice to be in East Lansing again, couldn’t believe how little crap I got from the students/fans. Must have been pity or something ;)
Sorry Iowa couldn’t pull through for you.
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