As many of you know I am a MSU student (who likes WMU Sports MUCH MORE), and WMU comes to E. Lansing on 11/07. What do you guys think about WMU's chances against MSU.
Personally, I like our chances.
I decided to make a fool out of myself on spartantailgate.com and "outed" myself as a WMU fan. It's quite hilarious.
I'm quickly becoming the "broncoman" of spartantailgate. They are calling for my head!
Ranking WMU's chances against 2009 Big 11 foes:
1. Indiana (50% chance of winnning)
2. U-M (33% chance of winnning)
3. MSU (20% chance of winnning)
My son hangs on Spartantailgate...........probably thinks you're me.
Sparty's are major whiners when people don't follow their party line. It's not like you're being a troll, you're just saying you think Western will win and here's the score.
The one thing I like about that game is it's late in the year. Our receivers are going to be young, and it will take a month or so to get that part of the offense running.
(02-23-2009 10:20 PM)Chipdip Wrote: [ -> ]It's not like you're being a troll, you're just saying you think Western will win
It really gets them that they can't ban me because I'm posting from MSU's campus.
Plus they HATE that I refer to WMU as "We"
Update: Now they are claiming that I am devaluing my own degree by being a WMU fan and going to MSU. WTF?
Bronco5 - Who does MSU lose from the 2008 team?
"DB doing his best bronco5 voice" - I know they lose Ringer.
Ringer, Hoyer, (but in the eyes of all MSU fans, Cousins, the next QB, is GOD), Otis Wiley (decent safety), Kendell Davis-Clark, Deon Curry, Keshawn Martin.
Those are most of the guys I know of that got decent playing time that are graduating. MSU's offensive like wasn't that good this year. A lot of Hoyer's passes were rushed and incomplete. Hence, most ignorant MSU fans think he was a horrible QB.
Apparently MSU has a great recruiting class coming in, but I didn't pay much attention to it.
Let's beat Central Michigan regularly.
Let's beat Indiana once or twice.
Then worry about Michigan or Michigan State.
Chip, if I'm not mistaken, didn't you "predict" two years ago that Kirk Cousins would be riding the pines at State and why didn't he look at MAC schools. Or maybe you said he wouldn't even start at MAC schools. So now he's the projected starter for Moo U. Looks like their QB situation is going to be awful.
Now every time I post on spartaintailgate, I ruin the thread. Everyone will come back with a sassy remark about WMU after anything I say thats non-WMU related.
What a buncha ass holes.
Quote:didn't you "predict" two years ago that Kirk Cousins would be riding the pines at State and why didn't he look at MAC schools.
I still predict that.
Cousins is all they had left after Hoyer. They were two deep at QB
MSU Depth Chart
Next year not the case, with some very good incoming talent, and a very solid transfer in Keith Nichol. And if Cousins does start, it's more an indicator of how weak they are at QB than how loaded they are at the position.
Agree there. Nichol is a better prospect. Andrew Maxwell could see playing time but I would think a redshirt might be the best option. I'm not a big Spartan fan but, like all state schools, I hope they do well.
(02-25-2009 09:11 AM)floridabronco Wrote: [ -> ]I'm not a big Spartan fan but, like all state schools, I hope they do well.
^ boooo (sockpuppet alert!)
I wish my hardest that u.m. and MSU fail in everything they do.
Players that I have coached went to both schools. Pretty hard to have coached at the high school level for 27 years without touching bases with a lot of state schools.
If the game is tight we'll see another 'phantom' TD like we saw with Lorenzo White in 1985. With the big money programs a visiting mid-major doesn't get any breaks.
Wouldn't surprise me to see Cousins starting at QB this coming season and then Maxwell starting as a RS-Frosh the following year.
I like our chances but as always, a lot depends on how our defense comes together. Playing that game in November instead of early September is always good when we step out of conference against the Big 10.
While all games count as only one win or loss, an OOC game against an in-state B10 school is always a rallying point for our fans. A chance to poke somebody in the eye so to speak.
(02-23-2009 10:17 PM)Berkley Bronco Wrote: [ -> ]Ranking WMU's chances against 2009 Big 11 foes:
1. Indiana (50% chance of winnning)
2. U-M (33% chance of winnning)
3. MSU (20% chance of winnning)
I don't see why you only feel you have a 33% chance against Michigan. Had you played them this past year, you would have whipped them up pretty good, in much more dominating fashion than we (Toledo) did.
I see Michigan in another year of disarray and I have no doubt WMU will take care of biz that day.
Would love to see it!
I can't speak for Berkley, but we know from experience that WMU generally does not do well vs. BCS competition early in September - probably due to Cubit's offensive complexity and the comfort level of the returning offensive starters. This year, it will be the defense breaking in a slew of new starters. But it no doubt will not be a stellar season for scUM, so I would put our chances a bit higher than he rated them. If there is ever a good time to play them in an opener, it may be this year.
Rickk, I hope your right, and appreciate the optimism.
MHB, that's it in a nutshell. I do not think U-M is unbeatable -- but given our slow starts, shaky openers, their 25-1 (approx) MAC record, and it being a must-win game for them (or face yet a third straight year of ridicule) I still say WMU needs a sharp, good game to win there.
Hopefully the birth of my next child will do for WMU football what the birth of my son did for the Tigers in 2006.
It's weird that so much in the sports world hinges on when we reproduce.