Bert claims MSU being sketchy with injury info

Thats what you get for defending those jackasses Bert

The interview just needs to be decoded...

"Coach, how would you assess your team's performance Saturday?"

Bert:  "We shit the bed."

Illinois was too good to be true. I was hoping they were the real deal because i want to watch us beat a team with a pulse and not a bunch of tomato cans. guess they are just a step above tomato can....not sure what that would be

Lol Bert and Mel were so complimentary of each other last week. 🤣 

I watched that game and it did seem suspicious how many MSU defensive players were going down.  

That said, I'm not a big fan of how much tempo has taken over college football.  One of the things I love about this game is the chess match between the offense and defense.  It's a less fair fight when DCs can't get substitutes on the field.

It's not often I praise the NFL way of doing things over college, but pro refs do make it easier to sub players and I like that better.

He was saying there were injuries to Michigan St. players during drives that were momentum killers for them, then the same injured players would quickly be back in the game.

This was an in-game tweet:

Apparently 2 players were injured 2 times, and came back into the game.

Bielema is a jackass.  Or maybe trying to call attention to his program.  Not worth paying attention to. Sort of a fat Franklin.

I'm starting to remember why he was positively unlikeable at UW

This is definitely a thing these days, teams faking injury to slow down tempo offenses.  I saw it blatantly happen a bunch to Tennessee this year, for example.

I watched the Illinois/MSU game.  It wasn't as blatant or frequent as what I saw at times against Tennessee, but still some suspicious incidents.

It might be something that needs a rule, but it's hard to figure out what a rule should be.  If you say "a player who stops play with injury has to stay out for at least X many plays or Y amount of game time" means you are incentivizing truly injured players being hurried off the field, which isn't desired.

Maybe we need just a bunch of public-service commercials:  "Don't let football turn into soccer.  Please, only you can prevent this:"

Don't think any west team would have more than 2 wins in the east this year.  Pathetic side.

Not sure the "sour grapes" metaphor works with Bert, as he would eat any grapes given the chance 

The first time the breeze filled up the remaining space in that white wind shirt, I wondered what the Michelin Tire Man was doing with a headset on…

So what, Marv Levy and his 1988 Bills complained about Chuck Knox and his Seahawks doing the same thing in the 1988 playoffs. Even though he won the game but later lost to the up tempo Bengals.

Complaining about gamesmanship is a loser's strategy.

You lost because:

1. Sparty actually had a pulse and a few guys who led the team during perhaps the most difficult week in Mel's tenure (Thorne and X Hend deserve a lot of credit).

2. Play calling was awful. MSU has been good vs. O's the RZ lately (Wisky, UM). Bert was unprepared.

3. Illinois came in way overconfident, figuring this was the usual Sparty tire fire we've seen under John LLLLLLL, Bobby W, and the end of the Dicktonio era.

Can't wait to beat them by 3X the spread in 2 weeks.