Red and Guilty said:Did you see that WSJ link? MSU is the 2nd worst offender. But I'm not just talking about Gholston of course. I've said (over and over) that we all get that these sorts of things happen. Looking at just one isolated incident doesn't paint the picture.valleroe said:Elaborate, I didn't know they tracked "cheap" plays in football statistics. Personal fouls aren't always cheap plays, in fact most of the time they aren't. They are just stupid/self destructive plays that should be avoided. Btw I was referring to Gholston, the kid has never acted like this before.
Just read it, my point stands. This is counting personal fouls, pfs aren't always cheap plays, in fact most of the time they aren't. I've watched this series the last 5 years ad none of the games i would call "dirty" games. This year's game was definately the most physical game of the series I've seen, but aside from Gholston's facemask garbage it was far from a "dirty" game. All the late hits were wrap up tackles executed right after ball delivery. The purpose of them was to throw off the internal timing of an already shaky passer; a tactic that seemed to work to perfection. None of the late hits appear to be malicious in any sense of the word, as I said they were text book wrap up tackles. So the Spartans have let their emotions run a little wild and have committed some dumb penalties, that is a far cry from being a cheap/dirty program. Gholston has never acted like this before and I can't remember a single play that was anywhere related to what Gholston did in the previous 4 games. Like I said, I watched all of them and they seemed to be physical, but clean games.