Sparty NO-iest of Sparty NO! moments in recent memory.  Unless "Tom Anastos" is the Clark Kent identity of Scotty Bowman, this is as bizarre as it gets.

The NAHL didn't really crumble did it?  It still exists, I know some kids in it.  It's not competative with the USHL but it never was.

But seriously.  Like seriously?  How. Did. This. Happen?  Who is coaching Union right now?  Yale?  UNO?  There have got to be smaller program coaches with great track records who would beat down walls to get the State job.

#HALOL

Ohio State even got a coach that was somewhat decent and their team has resided somewhere between mid-major and kind of good-ish their entire existence.

Are they just planning on dropping the sport in its entirety, because this would be step one on the road to that end.

Is this Hollis' effort to make the Comely era look not-so-bad-after-all?   I realize that this is funny for us because it's State, but it's shocking that a program in a top level conference with a fair amount of history would make such an absolute reach for a hire.

I really thought they were going to hire Danton Cole who coached the USA U-17  team this past season and before that coached Alabama - Huntsville.  

This is a huge shock and in my opinion MSU will not be good at hockey anytime soon.  

Dantonio makes "Pride comes before the fall comment."

MSU enjoys brief stay atop the landscape in this state.

Basketball reverses itself into a complete opposite dimension, completely opposite of football.

Pride comes before the fall comment takes itself out on State's own teams, but starts off with basketball and hockey.

Then in 2011 the football program at MSU gets hit in a weird karma-like reality, joining the basketball and hockey teams in what will become their own self-created purgatory.

Indeed, Pride WILL come before the fall, Spartans!

P.S. Does anyone know if State is announcing any new uniforms for football or basketball? Seems like it's been about a year or so since they've changed.

This makes no sense unless MSU's new goal for the program is "make Penn State feel welcome by sucking as much as they will in their first couple of years as a D-1 program"

That '80s helmet hair is awesome.  I hereby endorse that hire.

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In a logically ordered universe, Hollis would be selling tractors and sheep manure in St. John's.

No, it is every bit as bad a hire as it looks.

Mark Hollis is probably extremely proud of himself.

I am shocked. No really, I am.

I'm going to reserve my laughter until I am sure he is a terrible coach and MSU beats out Bolwing Green for last next year, but I'm not worried about it.

This is incredible, and the dark blue part of my grand image of Penn State being the Big Ten doormat just took a radical shift into the green spectrum.

Even if he doesn't turn out to be a complete dud, how in the world do they expect to sell tickets next year? You can't convince me for all the tea in China that MSU couldn't do better than that. MICHIGAN TECH WILL PROBABLY BE HIRING A BETTER CANDIDATE THAN MSU JUST DID!