Michigan State football: 2014 Big Ten schedule observations
On Thursday, Big Ten officials announced the schedules for the 2014 Big Ten football season. The season will be the first year that the Big Ten will consists of 14 teams, with new members Maryland and Rutgers each making their debut seasons in the conference that year.
For the first two seasons, each Big Ten team will play 4 non conference games and 8 conference games, playing the...
Spartan recruit's bad rap
There is one thing we know for sure about Pennsylvania high school football recruit Jay Harris: the three-star wide receiver won't be playing for Mark Dantonio at Michigan State this fall.
The why, however, is a little less clear.
On Tuesday, Harris made news when he told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he had chosen to walk away from his football career , which included a commitment...
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Michigan State Football: Spartans offense takes second sping scrimmage
EAST LANSING — Even in the spring the Michigan State Spartans football team can’t help but have a close game, as junior running back Nick Hill scored with a 7-yard touchdown run with over a minute left to play to give the offense a 28-26 victory in the Spartans second “situational” scrimmage.
The offense needed more than 26 points in the two-hour, 123 play scrimmage to come...
VIDEO: Dantonio to MSU players "You are the ones"
Michigan State has played some of it's best football in over a half a century as of late, but after a 7-6 season last year some see maintaining that success as a challenge. Well, Spartans head coach Mark Dantonio says CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. He also has a message to the underclassmen as well and that's "You are the ones."
Appratently it's a message he sent...
Michigan State Football: Dantonio shakes up coaching staff
On Monday, Michigan State head football coach Mark Dantonio officially announced the hiring of new co-offensive coordinator Jim Bollman. It will be Bollman’s second stint on the Michigan State coaching staff, returning to East Lansing 16 years after he spent three seasons under Nick Saban as an offensive line coach from 1995-1997.
After those three years at Michigan State, Bollman...
Urban Meyer plans to speak with B1G coaches about their terrible recruiting
If you weren’t sure who the Alpha-male was in the B1G, look no further than Urban Meyer at Ohio State. He wants to bring a bit of that SEC spirit to the conference, especially after seeing a down year in recruiting. Not his recruiting, after all, Ohio State ended up with a Top 5 class according to all the major scouting sources. The only other team to receive such high honors was...
Mark Dantonio’s Post Game Interview
After the Eastern Michigan Vs. Michigan State game, Mark Dantonio took the podium for the weekly post-game interview.
If you’ve seen any Dantonio Post-Game interview, you’ve probably seen him calmly answer questions. Not here.
In this interview, Dantonio was short, snarky, mean, and looked just flat out infuriated. For a good reason- MSU looked awful against Eastern Michigan...
Michigan State’s “Sparty” plays in spring game
Michigan State head football coach Mark Dantonio has a hankering for trick plays. And most of them work out well for the Spartans, but he failed miserably on his play call during the teams’ annual Green & White end-of-spring scrimmage Saturday.
During the first quarter, Sparty, the MSU mascot lined up in the backfield and took a handoff from redshirt freshman quarterback...
MSU's Dantonio says Michigan not a "threat"
Since Brady Hoke took over Michigan's football program, all of the talk has been the rivalry between "Ohio" and "that team up north."
This week, though, Mark Dantonio reminded everyone that Michigan State shouldn't be forgotten.
In an interview with ESPN.com, Dantonio fanned the flames of the Spartans-Wolverines rivalry with a single phrase.
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April 18, 2012
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Depth at tailback gives Dantonio no clear-cut candidate
EAST LANSING, Mich. Just because you start the season as Michigan States No. 1 running back doesnt mean youre going to finish there.
Thats certainly been the trend of late, and it was one of the messages coach Mark Dantonio sent during a news conference to preview spring practice, which opened Tuesday for the Spartans.
Asked how junior LeVeon Bell is approaching his role as the...
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March 27, 2012
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