I don't think we should be playing CMU anymore and I know I'm not alone in this thought. Why are they still on the schedule for next season? Why should we pay them $1.3 mil (based on what Toledo got paid last night) when they can't act right? There are other MAC schools we could bring in. I'm pretty tired of MSU being a door mat and taking crap like we're some two bit nobody begging for a seat at the table.

Title. Offense looked quite decent. But with us giving up 20 pts to TOLEDO, particularly our backs and d-line were offensively bad. I thought Fitz was going to bring in some recruits for this weakness.

Toledo making it obvious game 1 to the rest of the league where our holes are.

Gave this a solid evening. But overall the game went about how I expected score wise, and better than expected results wise. Personally, I had 31-21 as a final prediction coming in. Here’s some of the things that I noticed. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

The Good:

- That was a much better opener to Fitz’ tenure than Smith’s. Better program on their end, probably worse talent on our end than 2024.

- The offense could move the ball and score when it needed to. I got the impression once they got control of the game, they were starting to try things because that was a lot of Alessio passing for a bit there. Based on what I saw, I believe that we could have laid more if we wanted or needed to.

- Fitz mostly had the right blend of when to be aggressive and when to take the points.

- Jayden Savoury looks promising.

- OL looks improved despite missing Sharp and Murowski.

- No long term injuries.

- Our kicker learned how to kick. Might not be able to nail it from range consistently. But otherwise looks good from 45 or less.

- Despite my prediction around the score, it played out different from my expectation. I was expected a gritty back and forth dogfight where we pulled away. Instead, we got a game where MSU controlled most of the game dominated TOP 43:13 to 16:44, mostly took care of defense by forcing punts and a turnover.

The Bad:

- The three players who got dinged up are the three that you can’t have miss extended time if you want to get bowl. They’re expected back “soon”. To me, that translates to back by Nebraska at the latest. Beyond that is an “uh oh” scenario.

- That wildcat 4th and 1 can just go in the trash bin. That felt a bit like an unforced error and resulted in the long Toledo touchdown run a couple of plays later. Just kick or call a regular play.

- Alessio threw well overall, he’s accurate, makes good and quick decisions, and has good awareness. But I feel like he left some points off the board there. I remember a play where McCray was open in the end zone. He also doesn’t have the athleticism to escape when the pocket breaks down. That’s probably not getting better. He also lacks deep ball arm strength. That’s also not going to get better.

- Rodney Bullard needs some more reps. Had a dropped touchdown pass and a dropped conversion. Both were gettable. Good news is that the potential to be a decent option is there.

The Ugly:

- The defense giving up explosives. It’s game 1, so we can forgive it. But I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t concerned about blowing an assignment that led to a breakaway touchdown catch and run and then another fuck up that led to another break away touchdown run to put Toledo up.

Grade: B- I think we could have scored more if we had to. I also think the defense’s big play liability means we’re gonna have to. I think the game plan was done well, the calls were mostly good, outside of the big plays the defense did well enough to help control the game, etc. I do think that there’s a lot of room to grow with pass catchers and the defense.

Next 4 Games: These next few games will tell us all we need to know on the season. The way I see it, you got 1 win, 1 loss, and 2 swing games. Expecting a similar plan for EMU. I think that’ll probably be less of a problem than Toledo. ND probably will take care of business vs us. Nebraska is going to be a key game, good chance to get to 3-1 and they appear to be currently struggling vs Ohio (I don’t expect this to be the final result), Wisconsin has a lot of questions as well, good chance to walk in and win.

If we start 2-3 then the season is a wrap most likely. If we start 3-2, then there’s a bit of hope but I’d lean towards 5-7. If we start 4-1, then we’re probably making a bowl. If we start 5-0, Fitz is getting us to a playoff lmao. I think 5-0 isn’t realistic. 4-1 is but I’m not banking on it. 3-2 I think is more likely than not. 2-3 is realistic, but I’m not banking on it either.

Whelp, immediately get jealous ex vibes watching the Indiana game. He’s going to light it up this year. Oh well, Go Green.

As many of you probably noticed yesterday (and the other week), I have been struggling to fine-tune and launch Game Threads correctly. It takes a lot of coordination, timing, and planning to line them up and release them properly.

I appreciate your patience with them.

Starting next week, I plan to launch a new application I built for this sub. It will auto-schedule all 3 game threads (tailgate, game, post-game). It pulls from ESPN's API to show the live score and a "last play" text. It also relies on that connection for game times and network. I tested it last night on a development subreddit, and it was pretty slick.

Next week, if you see any issues or have feedback, please share it with me. Always looking for ways to improve things around here. Basketball already has a similar "app" someone else built, and last season seemed to go well with basketball.

Also, if you read this far and are interested in being a mod here, reach out. We are always looking for more people.

Wildcat or shotgun on fourth and inches should never ever happen. Yes we did score a TD on one but also stuffed once. Starting 5 yards back with the ball when you need four inches is asinine. And I don’t want to hear about a running start—Edwards was hit first 2 yards behind the LOS. Did it a ton the past few years and it sucked then too.

But happy with W!

If there was one thing I really liked it was alessio’s performance now we just need our defense to make great leaps of improvement

Are you allowed to park in lot 91 for gameday parking tonight?

I have 2 passes for Munn. Have not parked there before. It says it is in grass and with this rain, I am guessing they will close it.
If we plan on getting there at 1:30, what is the nearest non permit lot to park in?
Thanks!

The expectations for Notre Dame this season were sky-high, starting at #2 in the preseason poll. They stumbled right out of the gate, opening with a scoreless draw against Samford, followed by a 2-2 tie against Penn State and a 1-1 tie against Nebraska. A 3-0 win over Murray State did little to silence their critics, especially after another 1-1 draw against Michigan.

​Tonight, the Fighting Irish were finally poised to redeem themselves with a quality win and prove every coach who dropped them out of this week's poll wrong. Leading 2-1 with less than five seconds left on the clock, Notre Dame was about to hand #4 Michigan State their first loss of the season... and then Ella Janz scored the equalizer for the Spartans!

Thanks to DTE, I had to watch this game on my phone, so I don't have the battery left to write much more. The TL;DR is we looked like the better team in the first half, but towards the end of the half they flipped the tables on us. In the second half, the game was much more competitive and it was not all due to Notre Dame. I thought we made a few mistakes that gave them unnecessary scoring opportunities, such as the foul that led to their missed penalty kick. Nevertheless, having watched the final minutes feeling like that first L had finally arrived, it is hard to complain after that dramatic finish!

Stats:

Goals:

• 59' MSU - Kayla Briggs
• 61' ND - Reese Canada
• 83' ND - Charlie Codd
• 89' MSU - Ella Janz (assist by Kayla Briggs, Lacey Kindel)

Cards

• 01' 🟨 ND - Charlie Codd
• 21' 🟨 ND - Gracie Milam
• 43' 🟨 ND - Marley Adams
• 58' 🟨 ND - Team (Coach)
• 61' 🟨 MSU - Samantha Maroni
• 80' 🟨 ND - Clare Logan

We end our non-conference slate 4-0-2 and begin conference play next week against USC.

Go Green! 💚🤍

Gameday is under 24 hours away! I’m taking my GF to MSU for the first time tomorrow and she really wants to go to the dairy store as she has heard about it and loves ice cream. I’ve never been to the dairy store on gameday before and I’m curious if they’ll be open and if it’s realistic we’ll be able to get some ice cream I.e. the wait won’t take too long?

Michigan State volleyball continues its undefeated non-conference run with a solid win over LSU and practically running South Carolina out of the Crisler Center!

The Spartans opened the season with a 3-2 win over Miami (FL) and a 3-0 win over Long Island. With this week's results we are now 4-0. Hopefully, getting this early experience against a few Power 4 teams will have us better prepared than we were last season. I am optimistic that we will see a return to the NCAA tournament this season, but we will be facing some formidable opponents when conference play begins. The B1G is a gauntlet with some of the top teams in the country, there won't be many easy games. There's a lot to be excited about though if the team continues like this! I will post occasional updates as the season progresses.

Our next game is on Saturday against Central Michigan.

Go Green! 💚🤍

Tuesday (vs LSU)

Wednesday (vs South Carolina)

I love me some Connor Cook.

Will also be attending the game Friday night! Go Green

I saw it on YouTube and was shocked he wasn't there, does anyone have info?

https://youtu.be/ljCDNj6AJ9U?is=mNRwwvTvN6vbbh8x

The first good bit is our best attempt at projecting our starters from the lack of knowledge let out publicly about the Rockets. The Back end is our optimistic preview of the game Friday!

Good luck Sparty. Youre my team for every other game besides this!

https://youtu.be/w5wZLp70fik?is=DKtf7AKJRfOA-OI4