After week one of our football schedule I’ll be honest I was
worried. We played Furman university…. I know exactly what you’re thinking, Who
the hell is that. There a small private school out of South Carolina that I never
heard of. I thought we were going to go into our home field and just put an old
fashioned butt whooping on them and win by like 40. But nope we let the pressure
and the first game jitters get to us. We started off the game strong but once
the second quarter came along we started choking and our offensive line wasn’t doing
the hottest which caused our quarterback to be off with his throws. We barely
scraped by a win and luckily won 28-13, I guess a win is a win right? With
putting that W up in the win column we had a bye week the following week.
Looking towards week three we had to put in a lot of time out on the practice
field looking forward to playing Notre Dame. Going into the game they were
ranked #18 in the nation, while we were sitting at #12. The last time we played
them we also barely scraped out a win, so you already know they were looking
for revenge. There quarterback Deshone Kizer is a big threat to be reckoned with
alongside their wide receiver Tori Hunter Jr. Notre Dame punched state first
scoring the first and only touchdown in the first quarter. Michigan state must
of took offense because they came back scoring multiple touchdowns to make it
36-14 at halftime. It helped us out that we caused two turnovers and
capitalized with back to back touchdowns. At this point I was so happy jumping
off my couch at every huge play we had. It was funny because we watched the
game over at my buddy’s house and a couple of our Notre Dame friends came over
too. They were so upset screaming at their team every play it felt like.
Whenever any team plays us no matter who it is, it is always a great sight to
see the opposing fans get upset like that, it’s almost like it brings happiness
to me. Going into the second half I was confident that we were going to
continue these blow out but nope. It seemed like Michigan state was either
running out of gas or the defense of coordinator was making unnecessary
changes. Notre dame came out in the last quarter shocking the Spartans with two
touchdowns making it 36-28. Luckily after those touchdowns the game was over
and we ended up winning. Our running backs Gerald Holmes and L.J Scott had a
fantastic game carrying our team to victory with a combined 35 carries for 198
yards with 3 touchdowns. While our quarterback made 19 of 26 passes for 241
yards with 2 touchdowns. Next week Mark Dantonio and the Michigan state Spartans
have a battle against the Wisconsin Badgers, come back next week to see what
happens.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
The Mind of A Spartan #1
Michigan state football. Enough said right? I don’t
think so, I could go on and on about how great they are. I know many may disagree
but in my eyes they are. Well it helps that ever sense I came out of the womb I
have been a diehard Spartan fan. If you
could see the color of my blood, guaranteed it would be green and white. You can
just name off a list of great players that stepped through the tunnel into Spartan
stadium such as, T.J Ducket, Plaxico Burres, La’veon Bell, Darqueez Denard,
Lorenzo White, Tony Mandarich, and many many more. The past few years have been
great for state fans. Sense 2013 our record is 36-5 with winning the rose bowl
in 2013, winning the cotton bowl in 2014, and making it to the first final four
playoff experience in 2015. Ohh and did I mention 3 of the last 6 big ten
titles. Most of the success we have been having you can put all on our coach
Mark Dantonio. Even some of the college football analysis have placed Michigan state
as one of the recent powerhouse programs, mainly because of Dantonio. He
started off being a decent pro coach at the Cincinnati Bengals and then decided
to come to Michigan State in 2006. When football season rolls around the hairs
on the back of my neck stand up from excitement. Every Saturday you can find me
on my couch watching the game or going out with my friends enjoying it somewhere.
Unfortunately, most of my friends are on the dark side with Michigan, so it
makes watching games with them interesting with lots and lots of trash talking.
The best thing that happened to me recently was going to tailgate for the Michigan
vs Michigan state football game last year. We all know how that ended right? If
not ill remind you real fast, we blocked a punt at the end of the game and
returned it for a touchdown…..and won. With the few State fans that I went down
with we were so ecstatic with joy, just looking around at all the hurt Michigan
fans brought smiles to our faces. Alright enough about that game, in my blog I will
giving you guys a inside view of the Michigan state Spartans football team with
recaps of the games, stats, news, basically anything to do with the team.
Enjoy, GO GREEN GO WHITE.
Monday, September 5, 2016
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