http://www.statenews.com After limiting its opponents to 20 points or fewer in its last four outings, the MSU defense figured to be in shutdown mode as it prepared for Minnesota, which entered Saturday’s game at the bottom of the Big Ten in total offense. en-us Gryphon 2.2.3b-tsn (woodward)/Foundry5 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:40:47 -0500 webmaster@statenews.com http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47636 It’s good to see a Spartan team that doesn’t fold at the first hint of adversity. These guys will fight and scrap to the very end and many kudos for that. That being said, we’re not a very good football team. We might play hard but we don’t play very smart. Hopefully, as this team ages a bit, we’ll see some better execution. They’re still pretty young. I wonder when we’re ever going to see competent defensive coordination, though? I don’t think Narduzzi can use the “I’m just a freshman” excuse…. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:49:47 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47636 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47639 Doing the math, that means we had an average of 2.1 yards per carry without Keshawn’s one great run. I may not get paid millions of dollars to professionally coach college football, but if I did and my running game was so awful I think I’d try PASSING on first down for a change! I’m SO sick of seeing us waste two downs on rushing EVERY series. When the whole world knows you’re going to run up the middle you probably won’t get very far with mediocre running backs!!! Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:37:04 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47639 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47650 And if we’re not running up the middle, we’re running to the sort side of the field where there is no room. Why don’t the coaches call plays to the wide side and give the backs some room to make plays? The play calling is so predictable it’s killing us. How many times are we going to run up the middle inside the 5 and get turned back before the realize it’s time to try something else? Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:56:57 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47650 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47651 The thing that scares me most is Dantonio is supposed to be a tough nosed defensive minded coach. Yet we cannot cover a pass over 10 yards at all. Also, as far as production, we have the best offense in the Big Ten. When you score as much as MSU does, you should not be losing too many games, but the D is awful. I know the talent isn’t as great as last year, but the defensive gameplan needs an overhaul Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:02:31 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47651 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47654 Well folks………. SOS returned in typical fashion Saturday. Timmy made the trip over to Minneapolis, and the only good thing about the trip was that the new Gopher stadium is really nice. You could tell from the start that MSU wasn’t ready, emnotionally or physically, to play. This is coaching or rather lack thereof. Been a problem all along and it won’t be getting better soon. For all the hype MD and his staff spends too much time getting the players ready for failure rather than preparing them for success. Blah blah blah…seven stages of grief. Blah blah blah…sickening. Defeat rather than victory is MD’s personna. Another in a long line of mediocre coaches passing through MSU. Right up there with Bobby and John L. Can’t get two yards per carry and way too many attempts up the middle at the goal line. Play action? What’s that? Roll the QB and throw to a TE crossinhg? What’s that. MD is stuck trying to be a “power team,” and he’s proving every game that we ain’t. For all you koolaid drinkers and “MD is my Hero” crowd: Good Luck. This team is a joke…this staff is a joke..this season is a joke. Time for more contract extension talks. Predictions for the rest of the year: One more win, a sloppy escapade of mistakes vs. WMU, followed by thrashings by PU and PSU. This team doesn’t belong in a bowl game…ANY bowl game. MD is on his way out. Two more years. The search committee needs to dust off those resumes and start making the calls soon. Plenty of fresh talent out there ready for an administration willing to dole out the bucks on hope. Payback will come on the hardcourt if Head case Morgan can wake up and earn his keep and we can find a few “bigs” to help in the post. Thank GOD for Tom Izzo…one bright spot in another wise gloomy picture that is MSU sports Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:12:06 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47654 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47673 “To its credit, the MSU defense never gave up and came up with some big plays later in the game, but the first two minutes represented the Spartans’ susceptibility to big plays all night.” C’mon, Jeff. It’s getting old for you and all the other MSU fans to say, “Well, they gave it their all. Let’s be proud.” These are scholarship players, they should be beating teams like this, especially in Dantonio’s third season. We have regressed this season, and these are players Dantonio himself recruited. And maybe the defense didn’t “give up,” but they did give the Gophers’ QB a career day in a game we should have been hungry for after the Iowa debacle. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:51:01 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47673 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47674 I’m with you, Blah Blah!! Mark, “we’re a, paower team,” Dantonio. Don, “Up the gut, “ Treadwell. Pat, “prevent,” Narduzzi. Need I say more? Second rate coaching staff, second rate players. Occasional wins. “O” line that lacks toughness. Overweight, ovwer fed, under coached, not very bright. D libne. Bright spot, especially Worthy. Need a bunch more like that. Mad dog mean, viper quick. D backfield. Rediculous. Laughable. Horrible. Place kicker. The best! QB’s. Cousins improving. Nichols: can’t complete a simple foward pass. Maybe that’s why he’s not still at Oklahoma. O backfield. Just kids. No hope for this year. No hope for the near term future. MD must GO. The sooner the better. At least with JLS, we had some imagination on offense. At times (Vs Number 4 Wisconsin)it was fun to watch it hit on all cylinders. This present team sucks big time. We know it…they know it….the other teams know it… the papers know it…the sportswritwers know it…..any first grader with a TV set knows it. We suck. SOS is here to stay. More o’ the same. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:20:46 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47674 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47687 I thought he had the look and the demeanor to be a great coach when all along he was just putting on a show to make a few million….the players didn’t show effort because they didn’t see any from MD when the refs were making horrific calls and no-calls…why didn’t MD ask for a review when Iowa ‘apparently’ fumbled last week??? Would you fight for someone who doesn’t fight for you? NEW COACH!NEW COACH!NEW COACH! Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:40:47 -0500 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/47687