MSU Radio crew leaves a note in Nebraska

Bob is going to love this one....

That looks like Blaha's writing.

Nailed it.

Can't believe they haven't been suspended yet.

Fuck Rexrode!

Tim Wakefield wrote:Fuck Rexrode!

You should throw a note at him from the Izzone saying "Watch your back -rcmb"

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:

Tim Wakefield wrote:Fuck Rexrode!

You should throw a note at him from the Izzone saying "Watch your back -rcmb"

If I recall, I think the RCMB has experience leaving letters on seats for people at the Breslin.

Turtleneck wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:

You should throw a note at him from the Izzone saying "Watch your back -rcmb"

If I recall, I think the RCMB has experience leaving letters on seats for people at the Breslin.

Good ole Slick Nick.

Delaney is going to insist on a public reprimand from Hollis.

pretty funny and reiterates that whining about officiating is the Spartan way....

Robert J Sakimano wrote:pretty funny and reiterates that whining about officiating is the Spartan way.....

Everyone is complaining about the officials, but nice narrative.

InTenSity wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:pretty funny and reiterates that whining about officiating is the Spartan way.....

Everyone is complaining about the officials, but nice narrative.

lose to a team that's 1-4 in the Big Ten.. whine about the officiating.

meh.. y'all whine about what you wanna whine about. I just choose not to join the ranks of teams/fans who choose to blame the officiating after a loss.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

InTenSity wrote:
Everyone is complaining about the officials, but nice narrative.

lose to a team that's 1-4 in the Big Ten.. whine about the officiating.

meh.. y'all whine about what you wanna whine about. I just choose not to join the ranks of teams/fans who choose to blame the officiating after a loss.

I wasn't talking about just MSU. The ACC suspended officials, I think there was even a game this year in which a team got a first down, on 5th and a yard. Listening to the Dolphins game while driving on Sunday and they were complaining about the officials in the NFL, that they don't remember all the penalties being called, then they laughed and said its still better than what college has.
Officiating is bad, and there doesn't seem to be anyway to change it. I'm just saying there seems to be some legitimacy to complaining about the refs. You're correct though, there is no reason that MSU should have let a 1-4 team beat them.

InTenSity wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
lose to a team that's 1-4 in the Big Ten.. whine about the officiating.

meh.. y'all whine about what you wanna whine about. I just choose not to join the ranks of teams/fans who choose to blame the officiating after a loss.

I wasn't talking about just MSU. The ACC suspended officials, I think there was even a game this year in which a team got a first down, on 5th and a yard. Listening to the Dolphins game while driving on Sunday and they were complaining about the officials in the NFL, that they don't remember all the penalties being called, then they laughed and said its still better than what college has.
Officiating is bad, and there doesn't seem to be anyway to change it. I'm just saying there seems to be some legitimacy to complaining about the refs. You're correct though, there is no reason that MSU should have let a 1-4 team beat them.

I hear ya.. sucks all the way around and it's sort of theoretical until it impacts a game we're interested in.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

InTenSity wrote:
Everyone is complaining about the officials, but nice narrative.

lose to a team that's 1-4 in the Big Ten.. whine about the officiating.

meh.. y'all whine about what you wanna whine about. I just choose not to join the ranks of teams/fans who choose to blame the officiating after a loss.

It's great that Dantonio has this same attitude.   Just move on.

DWags wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
lose to a team that's 1-4 in the Big Ten.. whine about the officiating.

meh.. y'all whine about what you wanna whine about. I just choose not to join the ranks of teams/fans who choose to blame the officiating after a loss.

It's great that Dantonio has this same attitude.   Just move on.

yep.. sucks but whatcha gonna do? It's a life lesson for the young men on the team.. life isn't fair, and sometimes you have to just regroup and move on.

It has not been my stance to complain about "the call" in that game by any means. Yes, it was a blown call but as far as I'm concerned the loss just prolonged the inevitable. We aren't good enough to get where we wanted to go, barring some additional major breaks along the way. 

However, I read this article this morning from unaffiliated Jamie Samuelsen (Northwestern grad), and it's totally fair. He nails it. 

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state/spartans/2015/11/09/michigan-state-spartans-referees-jamie-samuelsen-blog/75498656/

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:It has not been my stance to complain about "the call" in that game by any means. Yes, it was a blown call but as far as I'm concerned the loss just prolonged the inevitable. We aren't good enough to get where we wanted to go, barring some additional major breaks along the way. 

However, I read this article this morning from unaffiliated Jamie Samuelsen (Northwestern grad), and it's totally fair. He nails it. 

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state/spartans/2015/11/09/michigan-state-spartans-referees-jamie-samuelsen-blog/75498656/

agree - we flirted with disaster all year long and eventually disaster took us up on our flirtation. Even the "just win" mantra suggests a certain degree of discomfort relative to narrow escapes in games that should have been comfortable victories.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

InTenSity wrote:
Everyone is complaining about the officials, but nice narrative.

lose to a team that's 1-4 in the Big Ten.. whine about the officiating.

meh.. y'all whine about what you wanna whine about. I just choose not to join the ranks of teams/fans who choose to blame the officiating after a loss.

So don't blame officials for a loss, accept responsibility for your actions that led to the loss?

Now let's talk about blaming guns for..........

I thought it was funny.

kingstonlake wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
lose to a team that's 1-4 in the Big Ten.. whine about the officiating.

meh.. y'all whine about what you wanna whine about. I just choose not to join the ranks of teams/fans who choose to blame the officiating after a loss.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
lose to a team that's 1-4 in the Big Ten.. whine about the officiating.

meh.. y'all whine about what you wanna whine about. I just choose not to join the ranks of teams/fans who choose to blame the officiating after a loss.

So don't blame officials for a loss, accept responsibility for your actions that led to the loss?

Now let's talk about blaming guns for..........

NigelUno wrote:I thought it was funny.

it was pretty funny.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:It has not been my stance to complain about "the call" in that game by any means. Yes, it was a blown call but as far as I'm concerned the loss just prolonged the inevitable. We aren't good enough to get where we wanted to go, barring some additional major breaks along the way. 

However, I read this article this morning from unaffiliated Jamie Samuelsen (Northwestern grad), and it's totally fair. He nails it. 

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state/spartans/2015/11/09/michigan-state-spartans-referees-jamie-samuelsen-blog/75498656/

agree - we flirted with disaster all year long and eventually disaster took us up on our flirtation. Even the "just win" mantra suggests a certain degree of discomfort relative to narrow escapes in games that should have been comfortable victories.

I can't tell from your incessant rambling. Do you think the call was wrong or right?

Bob, why can't you look at it on a call to call basis?

Like most arguments here, everyone has to be extremely on one side or the other. I know for a fact that it was a bad call. The replay showed it. Pretty simple.

Now does this make me some conspiracy theorist about Delaney and ESPN?

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:It has not been my stance to complain about "the call" in that game by any means. Yes, it was a blown call but as far as I'm concerned the loss just prolonged the inevitable. We aren't good enough to get where we wanted to go, barring some additional major breaks along the way. 

However, I read this article this morning from unaffiliated Jamie Samuelsen (Northwestern grad), and it's totally fair. He nails it. 

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state/spartans/2015/11/09/michigan-state-spartans-referees-jamie-samuelsen-blog/75498656/

Wow, I actually gained some respect for Jamie Samuelsen. That article was 100% spot on.

My .02 either improve the review system and reffing to a more common sense approach where they can correct mistakes that they see in review or just do away with it.

Also, I've never for a second bought the popular fallacy that refs don't decide games. Refs absolutely can affect the outcome of a game.

Rocinante wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:
agree - we flirted with disaster all year long and eventually disaster took us up on our flirtation. Even the "just win" mantra suggests a certain degree of discomfort relative to narrow escapes in games that should have been comfortable victories.

I can't tell from your incessant rambling. Do you think the call was wrong or right?

it was probably the wrong call.

But I don't see the need in isolating single calls into what decides the outcome of a game. I suspect there is a missed call of some sort on every single play. Truth is, we shouldn't have been in the position to allow a single call to decide the game.

and, believe me when I say, that if scUM, O$U or any other team ranked higher than us in the CFP poll lost a game in a similar fashion that we wouldn't be crying about how poor the officiating is in college football. We'd be pointing at them, laughing.. and saying that the scoreboard is what matters.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

Rocinante wrote:

I can't tell from your incessant rambling. Do you think the call was wrong or right?

it was probably the wrong call.

But I don't see the need in isolating single calls into what decides the outcome of a game. I suspect there is a missed call of some sort on every single play. Truth is, we shouldn't have been in the position to allow a single call to decide the game.

and, believe me when I say, that if scUM, O$U or any other team ranked higher than us in the CFP poll lost a game in a similar fashion that we wouldn't be crying about how poor the officiating is in college football. We'd be pointing at them, laughing.. and saying that the scoreboard is what matters.

I'm not comfortable with your use of the word "we".

Yes, anything bad that happens to michigan, I derive pleasure from, but I don't extend that treatment to just anybody.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

Rocinante wrote:

I can't tell from your incessant rambling. Do you think the call was wrong or right?

it was probably the wrong call.

But I don't see the need in isolating single calls into what decides the outcome of a game. I suspect there is a missed call of some sort on every single play. Truth is, we shouldn't have been in the position to allow a single call to decide the game.

and, believe me when I say, that if scUM, O$U or any other team ranked higher than us in the CFP poll lost a game in a similar fashion that we wouldn't be crying about how poor the officiating is in college football. We'd be pointing at them, laughing.. and saying that the scoreboard is what matters.

I think I've said in the past that I don't like Duke.

At any rate, Duke got hosed against Miami. The refs cost Duke that game.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

Rocinante wrote:

I can't tell from your incessant rambling.  Do you think the call was wrong or right?

it was probably the wrong call.

But I don't see the need in isolating single calls into what decides the outcome of a game. I suspect there is a missed call of some sort on every single play. Truth is, we shouldn't have been in the position to allow a single call to decide the game.

I generally agree with this, but did you read the article I posted above? There are some valid points made.

Bob treats us like we are still some rcmb mouthbreathers and I don't like it.

There was another play the refs missed. A Nebraska WR moved. I think it ended up being a big play.

I will have to rewatch the entire game to confirm blatant cheating and/or incompetency.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Bob treats us like we are still some rcmb mouthbreathers and I don't like it.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Bob treats us like we are still some rcmb mouthbreathers and I don't like it.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Bob treats us like we are still some rcmb mouthbreathers and I don't like it.

That's his narrative. All MSU fans are sheep. He chooses to ignore that fans are called fans for a reason, that all fans are not the same and that all fanbases generally share the same characteristics, he just has more access to one. Whatevs.

steveschneider wrote:
I think I've said in the past that I don't like Duke.

At any rate, Duke got hosed against Miami. The refs cost Duke that game.

The ACC came out at the end of the week and gave an apology to MIami for that game as well. Those refs were absolutely horrible. I think there were 28 penalties called on Miami during that game. I didn't see anything but the last play, but apparently the 2 PI calls that led to Duke scoring to be in the lead were horrible calls too.

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Bob treats us like we are still some rcmb mouthbreathers and I don't like it.

That's his narrative. All MSU fans are sheep. He chooses to ignore that fans are called fans for a reason, that all fans are not the same and that all fanbases generally share the same characteristics, he just has more access to one. Whatevs.

I don't think that MSU fans are "sheep" any more than any other fanbase is. I'm simply pointing out my belief that our sudden concern with the quality of officiating in college football is rooted in the fact that many MSU fans believe it cost us the game.

I don't think we're worried about the officiating in college football. I think we're worried about the officiating on that one play in that one game.

and, thankfully, I'm afforded my opinion at tSwill - as are you. This isn't tRCMB.. you're a great American and a damn fine Spartan.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

Rocinante wrote:

I can't tell from your incessant rambling. Do you think the call was wrong or right?

it was probably the wrong call.

But I don't see the need in isolating single calls into what decides the outcome of a game. I suspect there is a missed call of some sort on every single play. Truth is, we shouldn't have been in the position to allow a single call to decide the game.

and, believe me when I say, that if scUM, O$U or any other team ranked higher than us in the CFP poll lost a game in a similar fashion that we wouldn't be crying about how poor the officiating is in college football. We'd be pointing at them, laughing.. and saying that the scoreboard is what matters.

Im sorry we were dressed so provocatively Goose.........

kingstonlake wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:it was probably the wrong call.

But I don't see the need in isolating single calls into what decides the outcome of a game. I suspect there is a missed call of some sort on every single play. Truth is, we shouldn't have been in the position to allow a single call to decide the game.

and, believe me when I say, that if scUM, O$U or any other team ranked higher than us in the CFP poll lost a game in a similar fashion that we wouldn't be crying about how poor the officiating is in college football. We'd be pointing at them, laughing.. and saying that the scoreboard is what matters.

Im sorry we were dressed so provocatively Goose.........

we're to blame for allowing the officials to violently assert their will upon us.

kingstonlake wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:it was probably the wrong call.

But I don't see the need in isolating single calls into what decides the outcome of a game. I suspect there is a missed call of some sort on every single play. Truth is, we shouldn't have been in the position to allow a single call to decide the game.

and, believe me when I say, that if scUM, O$U or any other team ranked higher than us in the CFP poll lost a game in a similar fashion that we wouldn't be crying about how poor the officiating is in college football. We'd be pointing at them, laughing.. and saying that the scoreboard is what matters.

Im sorry we were dressed so provocatively Goose.........

Haha +1