Countdown to Spartan Football 2015!!

LooseGoose wrote:Brian Ottney may he RIP says.....


...73 days until Spartan Football.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:bump.

LooseGoose wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:bump.

Your asshole side shining through.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:I wonder what happened to 'ol Ron Saul??

Carl (Buck) Nystrom joins five others in the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame tonight, and if you haven't heard much about Nystrom before this, know two things. One, it sounds like he may have been the most intense coach in the history of coaching. Two, he's also the subject of more hilarious stories than most.

Tom Izzo and Barry Switzer, in particular, were literally howling at times Wednesday as they recounted Buck's Greatest Hits. First, let Switzer explain what it was like to share the sideline with Nystrom (Switzer was Oklahoma's offensive coordinator under Chuck Fairbanks when Nystrom was offensive line coach).

"I can still see him out there, screaming, hollering, spitting," Switzer said. "He had lost his front teeth, so he'd take that plate out and just get after it. The cameras should have been on him the whole time. Buck would have been great theater – but he was not a performer. That was him. What he did was real, totally real."

LooseGoose wrote:A Spartan all of you kids should know - Buck Nystrom says....

......days until Spartan Football!!

Hey Joe: The wonderfully wacky world of Buck Nystrom

Carl (Buck) Nystrom joins five others in the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame tonight, and if you haven't heard much about Nystrom before this, know two things. One, it sounds like he may have been the most intense coach in the history of coaching. Two, he's also the subject of more hilarious stories than most.

Tom Izzo and Barry Switzer, in particular, were literally howling at times Wednesday as they recounted Buck's Greatest Hits. First, let Switzer explain what it was like to share the sideline with Nystrom (Switzer was Oklahoma's offensive coordinator under Chuck Fairbanks when Nystrom was offensive line coach).

"I can still see him out there, screaming, hollering, spitting," Switzer said. "He had lost his front teeth, so he'd take that plate out and just get after it. The cameras should have been on him the whole time. Buck would have been great theater – but he was not a performer. That was him. What he did was real, totally real."

And now, Nystrom sees that tradition in what Mark Dantonio has built at MSU since 2007.

"He's got a lot of MSU in him," Nystrom said of Dantonio. "His personality, the way he approaches the game, he's got a lot of flavor of MSU and I think that's great. He runs a disciplined program, he's fair to the kids and he's good to the kids. And that's been MSU's trademark. He's the boss, but he has great rapport with his kids. He's a good one. He's a class guy."

And another thing…

"You don't see his kids running their mouth and all that crap," Nystrom said. "That's not what college athletics is all about. Play the game, get your education, be a good person. And keep your mouth shut."