The Official MSU vs ][V][ichigan Game Thread

[wlvrnstlr4life]

Once again Michigan rises above.

And all vampires now feel safe, once again.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Here's the BTN video of the "staking".

http://btn.com/2014/10/25/video-mark-dantonio-calls-out-rival-michigan-in-postgame-presser/

Wow. Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Hoke has issued public apology.
Look online

It was tent stake used as motivating tool

Crazy. Our PR is soooo bad. It's a motivational tool (and an analogy where MSU is the "tough environment"), and we apologize which will just confirm to them that it was meant to be disrespectful. Meanwhile, Dantonio confirms they were sticking it to us, and that's how it was intended.

 

[hungry]

I wish MSU would've scored 3 more TD's...what's the difference?

 

[cmrlily]

Read the statement. It's just that kind of year (or coaching regime); background sounds plenty innocent but everything turns into a catastrophe.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Are we mathematically eliminated yet, from the any chance at the B1G championship (not that there's a realistic one, but is there a mathematic one)?

 

[Gulo Blue]

Are we mathematically eliminated yet, from the any chance at the B1G championship (not that there's a realistic one, but is there a mathematic one)?

There might be a technical chance if Michigan won-out, MSU "lost-out" (is that a term?) and OSU lost everything other than the MSU game.

 

[tinselwolverine]

There might be a technical chance if Michigan won-out, MSU "lost-out" (is that a term?) and OSU lost everything other than the MSU game.

Does that mean we're eliminated against the Buckeyes should they beat Illinois next Saturday?

I was hoping you would respond, because, you know, like, you're good at math, and shit.

 

[lostleader]

Hoke has issued public apology.
Look online

It was tent stake used as motivating tool

Nothing but pussys. I didn't read it, but the fact that UM and Hoke cant make a stand, and would apologize for motivating the team is sad. Who cares if MSU is upset, no real harm done, and MSU cemented the fact that they own UM, by making the say they are sorry.

That being said, until UM is playing football and not powder puff, they need to knock the shit off, I would think the whole team should be embarrassed, but I'm sure they are practicing hard..clap,clap,clap

 

[hungry]

Hoke should apologize to the UM fanbase, not Dantonio. It's just plain stupid that they need to use some stake as some sort of motivational tool for this game. What a stupid thing to do!! Then he apologizes? Screw that.

Dantonio is a tool for saying that he felt disrespected, too. What a goof...always disrespected. Dude has a serious problem is it's so easy for him to feel disrespected.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Does that mean we're eliminated against the Buckeyes should they beat Illinois next Saturday?

I was hoping you would respond, because, you know, like, you're good at math, and shit.

Cross-division conference games count, right?

They have 3 wins, MSU has 4, Mich has 1. Michigan has 4 games left, so if we're only talking about what theoretically has a non-zero chance of happening, Michigan could get to 5. So MSU can't win any more, so OSU would have to beat them. That gets OSU to 4. I guess we'd have the head-to-head tiebreaker if they beat Illinois and got to 5 wins, but I don't know the order of the tiebreakers and this non-zero chance we're talking about isn't enough for me to go look it up. It's eleven games that have to go a certain way...maybe 10 of eleven need to go a certain way, and there's other potantial things that doesn't account for, like Rutgers winning out and beating us on the tiebreaker. I feel pretty comfortable saying it's worse than 1 in a million.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Cross-division conference games count, right?

They have 3 wins, MSU has 4, Mich has 1. Michigan has 4 games left, so if we're only talking about what theoretically has a non-zero chance of happening, Michigan could get to 5. So MSU can't win any more, so OSU would have to beat them. That gets OSU to 4. I guess we'd have the head-to-head tiebreaker if they beat Illinois and got to 5 wins, but I don't know the order of the tiebreakers and this non-zero chance we're talking about isn't enough for me to go look it up. It's eleven games that have to go a certain way...maybe 10 of eleven need to go a certain way, and there's other potantial things that doesn't account for, like Rutgers winning out and beating us on the tiebreaker. I feel pretty comfortable saying it's worse than 1 in a million.

So you're saying there's a chance?

 

[bamf_16]

This is as bad as Karl Rove on election night 2012 saying "there was still a chance!"

 

[tinselwolverine]

This is as bad as Karl Rove on election night 2012 saying "there was still a chance!"

Well...this is the moral and ethical conundrum I - and we all, to a degree, face.

Assuming Ohio State beats Illinois...when Ohio State plays Michigan State in two weeks, we have to look into our souls, and decide if we can root for Ohio State...because a Sparty victory would mathematically eliminate us against them; yet an Ohio State victory would keep us alive for the championship, million or more to one odds against us it may be...

...and I just don't know if I'm in an emotional place in my life where I would be prepared to make that choice...

 

[Gulo Blue]

Well...this is the moral and ethical conundrum I - and we all, to a degree, face.

Assuming Ohio State beats Illinois...when Ohio State plays Michigan State in two weeks, we have to look into our souls, and decide if we can root for Ohio State...because a Sparty victory would mathematically eliminate us against them; yet an Ohio State victory would keep us alive for the championship, million or more to one odds against us it may be...

...and I just don't know if I'm in an emotional place in my life where I would be prepared to make that choice...

I was mowing my lawn Friday and I spotted a rock I didn't want to hit. I threw it, blindly, over my fence and off into the woods. There's almost no chance that anyone would be out there. But if you feel like you need to consider rooting for Ohio State, I guess I should feel bad about throwing that rock.

I'm such a jerk.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I was mowing my lawn Friday and I spotted a rock I didn't want to hit. I threw it, blindly, over my fence and off into the woods. There's almost no chance that anyone would be out there. But if you feel like you need to consider rooting for Ohio State, I guess I should feel bad about throwing that rock.

I'm such a jerk.

But...I once hit a kid with a rock.

In his head.

Him and his little kid buddies (as I was a little kid) were hassling me in front of the now legendary house I grew up in on Sunset Road in Ann Arbor.

Then they ran away down Sunset, and I picked up a rock (between a rock and a pebble, actually, I guess you could call it a stone) and just hurled it in their direction Down Sunset Road at them.

They were 35 to 45 yards down the street; I thought it was impossible that I would hit any of them with my stone.

But my stone ended up clocking the primary instigator right in his noggin.

I had kinda hurled it high up in the air; so when it clocked him it didn't have the impact of a straight hard shot.

So he ended up not being injured in any way...but he ran home crying, nevertheless.

I would say that the odds of me hitting him would have probably been about one in a million.

EDIT: Now as I'm recalling it...I'm remembering that those little fuckers had started throwing stones at me, right in front of my front door.

So I guess that's how I managed to stay out of trouble.

Don't blame me if I have better aim than you have, beyotch.
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[gotime909]

Hoke should apologize to the UM fanbase, not Dantonio. It's just plain stupid that they need to use some stake as some sort of motivational tool for this game. What a stupid thing to do!! Then he apologizes? Screw that.

Dantonio is a tool for saying that he felt disrespected, too. What a goof...always disrespected. Dude has a serious problem is it's so easy for him to feel disrespected.

It's quite the motivational tool for his players. MD is as good as anyone at getting his players to buy into that stuff.

 

[Spartanmack]

I tend to doubt we scored at the cry end

They beat the point spread with that

the spread was 16.5 and they were winning by 17 before that score. But they did need it for the over which was 45.5...

 

[byco42]

I think that M should do it every season they play in EL from now on. As if it has an effect on the game outcome, anyway. Having seen the gesture, I question the umbrage taken by Dantonio. He must have parchment paper for skin.

 

[TheVictors]

Dantonio is a tool for saying that he felt disrespected, too. What a goof...always disrespected. Dude has a serious problem is it's so easy for him to feel disrespected.

He's pandering to the base. It's the "Institutionalized Inferiority Complex"