November 8th, 2021 at 2:18 PM ^
FYS. That is all.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:18 PM ^
What else would you say if you knew you won because of ref biases.
November 8th, 2021 at 3:10 PM ^
and here I thought we lost because our defense gave up 8 ypc to Kenneth Walker...
November 8th, 2021 at 3:22 PM ^
Well considering Michigan's defense gets holding calls less frequently than any other Big Ten team that isn't very hard to do for an explosive player like that
I know, I know. ExCuSeS
November 8th, 2021 at 3:22 PM ^
Mel Tucker: we don't talk about bad calls
Also Mel Tucker: we submitted several bad calls for review
If it wasn't for double standards, Sparty would have no standards.
November 8th, 2021 at 3:38 PM ^
Except he never said what you or OP are saying he said. He was asked about a controversial call in Purdue game and gave his response about how he views bad calls. Nothing at all about Harbaugh, not even implied.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:18 PM ^
A job can be a jab and a jab could be a job. In this case I suggest you take this job and shove it although that is not a jab at you.
November 8th, 2021 at 3:03 PM ^
Do go on. I personally think it is the job of the veterans of this board to jab. It keeps the place entertaining.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:18 PM ^
I hope he doesn't take Harbaugh's job
November 8th, 2021 at 2:31 PM ^
But hope he takes Harbaugh's jab (next year)
November 8th, 2021 at 2:19 PM ^
Soft is giving up 536 passing yards to Purdue...
November 8th, 2021 at 2:24 PM ^
He was not referencing Harbaugh and the UM game, but the targeting call against Purdue I think.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:26 PM ^
This is why nobody likes you, Toby. God, can you just post in the shed out back?
November 8th, 2021 at 2:39 PM ^
Why are you the way that you are?
November 8th, 2021 at 2:54 PM ^
You are the silent killer. Go back to the annex.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:27 PM ^
I think coaches who lose at home to Rutgers should probably not be allowed to have opinions about anything
November 8th, 2021 at 2:30 PM ^
FWIW, this was his quote:
“I don't like to talk about bad calls,” Tucker said during his weekly news conference. “That's not part of our culture. We don't like to make excuses about anything. I think that makes your program soft. I think it gives your coaches and your players a way out, so I don’t even like to talk about it that much.
But we do turn them in, because we need clarification. And if I disagree with something, I'll tell them and then we move on, because that's not gonna change the outcome, actually. It happens every week. It's a human performance business, and there's a lot of judgment calls as well.”
So he thinks complaining about bad calls makes your team soft. And admits right afterwards that they submit bad calls to the BIG10 for clarification (ie complaining). So he's just being honest about how soft his team and culture is. Honestly pretty brave.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:33 PM ^
Easy to be “brave” when you won your Super Bowl thanks in large part to shoddy officiating. For MSU everything else is just gravy.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:33 PM ^
“I don't like to talk about bad calls,” Tucker said during his weekly news conference. "Especially when those bad calls take away touchdowns from our opponent and allow us to stay in the game. We should definitely not talk about those bad calls."
November 8th, 2021 at 3:21 PM ^
Saying "I'm not going to blame the refs" over and over is the typical way MSU program/media prefers to blame the refs
November 8th, 2021 at 3:29 PM ^
Lol, could easily be a meme
"We don't talk about bad calls. Like the targeting call on us, that kinda bad call. We won't ever bring those calls up, like Michigan having 4 points taken off the board. I won't discuss roughing the snapper years ago, or not calling DPI on that 4th down two weeks, with the game on the line. At Michigan State, we move on, we put stuff like "Spartan Bob putting 1 second on the clock" in the past. Next to other bad calls like a Michigan linebacker being shoved into our QB and getting called for targeting, that's where we end discussion on bad calls. Next question."
November 8th, 2021 at 2:43 PM ^
MSU: We call our stadium the Woodshed, and you're not getting away from Tuck in the Deep End. Also here's a selfie of me smoking a cigar. These are HARD program things.
Strong Napoleon Dynamite sensei vibes.
November 8th, 2021 at 3:18 PM ^
Wow, I have to say one good thing about msu's athletic department, they do an excellent job at maintaining a consistent culture. Just a few years of hanging out and mel sounds exactly like izzo in a post-loss press conference. "I'm not going to stand up here and make a bunch of excuses" followed by a press conference that consists entirely of excuses.
November 8th, 2021 at 4:09 PM ^
It's not 'complaining' it is 'asking for clarification'.
Sure, Mel
November 8th, 2021 at 2:31 PM ^
MSU’s established nickname is Little Brother. Don’t go sexist here.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:35 PM ^
Tucker absolutely comes out of this back and forth looking better than Harbaugh, especially since his team won. Neither coach said anything that different and its just media framing but Tucker's one sentence sound bite sounds better. It wasn't the last play of the game, it was a bad call but wasn't determinative of the outcome. I'd really prefer to just move on and have our revenge be if we can actually beat OSU and have the the better season.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:41 PM ^
"Tucker absolutely comes out of this back and forth looking better than Harbaugh"
Really? He ABSOLUTELY does?!
No, he doesn't. Stop being an idiot.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:45 PM ^
Also FWIW, here is the Harbaugh transcript:
Reporter: Did the Big Ten office call to discuss the overturned strip-stack-fumble recovery touchdown by Aidan Hutchinson?
Harbaugh: “Yeah, as we all expected, all saw, mistakes were made."
Reporter: “You heard from them?”
Harbaugh: “That was the response, they made a mistake.”
Reporter: “On that call?”
Harbaugh: “Yeah. And others.”
Reporter: “So they said they said they made mistakes on other calls?”
Harbaugh: “Yes.”
Reporter: “Just being clear.”
Harbaugh: “Can't be any more clear than that."
Reporter: “Well there were a lot of calls, that's why I wasn't sure.”
Harbaugh: “Yeah, there were. The film doesn’t lie, you know.”
Doesn't sound like someone who intentionally came into the presser looking to get that off his chest but a question probed by a media member to stir up this exact storyline.
November 8th, 2021 at 3:09 PM ^
Repeated questions actually.
November 8th, 2021 at 3:13 PM ^
"Harbaugh: “Can't be any more clear than that."
Reporter: “Well there were a lot of calls, that's why I wasn't sure.”
Harbaugh: “Yeah, there were. The film doesn’t lie, you know.”"
You can be a helluva lot more clear than that, Jim!!
November 8th, 2021 at 3:22 PM ^
Yeah I don't really care what Harbaugh said and don't think he was in any way blaming the loss on that call. Its more just if you look at the media sound bites you have one coaching with a one liner saying they don't make excuses and one coach highlighting a bad call in a game from two weeks ago. Its just an optics loss that it happened on the same day. I don't even think Tucker even knew about Harbaugh's comment, just saying his comment reads better.
November 8th, 2021 at 3:34 PM ^
Jesus fuck dude. Harbaugh was asked directly and repeatedly about it. All Harbaugh did was answer in short sentences. And that apparently means he's "highlighting" it.
I swear Harbaugh could never possibly win with you people.
November 8th, 2021 at 3:58 PM ^
LOL... yeah - a one-liner that turned into a multi-liner in which Tucker went on to explain that, contrary to his prior statement, he does in fact bitch about calls just like everyone else.
November 8th, 2021 at 4:51 PM ^
did you bump your head?
November 8th, 2021 at 4:51 PM ^
Sure, if you are the type of person that just reads headlines, your take away will be a Mel Tucker win because the headline is "Harbaugh says BIG10 refs made a mistake" and "Mel Tucker takes jab at Harbaugh's officiating comments" when in reality, if you read or listened to the interviews, Harbaugh was answering a question he was repeatedly asked and Mel Tucker wasn't even talking about Harbaugh or Michigan.
November 8th, 2021 at 4:35 PM ^
ak47 once again taking the opportunity to post an atrocious contrarian take that nobody fucking asked for. Boy I wish being a tool was painful.
November 8th, 2021 at 10:27 PM ^
Not just one call. Goddamn. How many times this has to be repeated. Move on for what? Fight brother/sister. That is the only way B1G and teams like M and OSU is going to do something.. it is all about money. Moving on does nothing but builds this incompetency.
Anyway, I mean just fight on the internet. :)
November 8th, 2021 at 2:38 PM ^
Should get the message to Blaha and Strayhorn on their radio broadcast.
Listened to the last 7 minutes while getting takeout. They started talking about refs and injuries non stop.
My eyes rolled almost to the back of my head.
Honestly,, they are terrible announcers. They are so slow and and Strayhorn just groans during plays. Honestly 50 yard plays would be dead air, with the crowd cheering . then you find out its a big play.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:42 PM ^
Listened to the first quarter on the drive to Ann Arbor on WJR. Brandy and Dierdorf have their um, moments, but dear Lord just 10 minutes of the Sparty broadcast was nauseating.
Blaha and using first names almost exclusively (or calling Kenneth Walker III "K9" every 5 seconds), and Strayhorn just groaning in the background and then 5 seconds later Blaha tells you what happens.
Radio play by play is an art, and these guys do an awful job of painting what is actually going on.
November 8th, 2021 at 3:25 PM ^
Strayhorn makes Jim Brandstatter sound like Bryant Gumbel. Never heard so much blubbering in all my life.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:39 PM ^
We'll see if he feels that way when the refs call 11 unnecessary steroid use/roughess against his team for touching Stroud's shoulder. But u know... we're soft. because we lost by 4 points on some BS. gotcha. Eat a bag of d*
November 8th, 2021 at 2:40 PM ^
I saw the hitpiece on the freep implying he was dumping on Harbaugh.... I didn't take it as such, and he was replying to a question.
November 8th, 2021 at 3:01 PM ^
This whole thing is manufactured trash and the borderline illiterate portions of both fan bases are swallowing it hook, line and sinker.
Harbaugh didn't come into the press conference looking to talk about Michigan State. He was directly prompted about the officiating. It was pretty benign.
Tucker wasn't even asked about the officiating in the Michigan game. MSU was on the wrong end of about a dozen or so calls/non-calls in their loss to Purdue. The reporters were practically begging him to complain about the officiating.
But they have successfully manufactured the narrative that Harbaugh was still complaining that the refs gave the game to MSU two weeks later and Tucker is calling Harbaugh and Michigan soft for complaining about the refs. Even though none of this is even close to what happened.
November 8th, 2021 at 3:35 PM ^
100%
Even the Freep just changed their headline to reflect that Tucker actually did NOT take a shot at Harbaugh
A bunch of manufacturered bull
November 8th, 2021 at 2:42 PM ^
the post on ESPN says .. "Harbaugh says".. wtf. Why can't the B10 just announce it? Why does harbaugh have to comment at all other than... yeah, we all saw it. Another polarizing moment they try and create for a guy who has been docile for 5 years.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:46 PM ^
They beat us man lol
One coach dismissed bad refs, one continues to bring it up.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:55 PM ^
You are such a Troll
November 8th, 2021 at 3:59 PM ^
Make liberal use of the Troll Cave. Best invention, ever.
November 8th, 2021 at 2:59 PM ^
He didn't bring it up, reporters asked a question.
Sparty lost by 11 and not because of the 1 questionable call. Congrats to Mel for playing tough guy.
UM lost by 4 after going 0-6 on replays, 2 of which were straight up admittedly wrong and took points off the board. Yeah, how dare Harbaugh answer the reporter's question as to if the league contacted him.
When you get clubbed over the head, house broken into and your shit stolen, be sure not to answer the neighbors questions about what happened...tough guys don't bring that up. Guy beat you man, suck it up.