Michigan St starting CB enters portal
3 starters entering the portal in one day is not a coincidence, but I'm guessing MSU insiders will continue to play dumb with fans
EDIT: Lol there's currently a Twitter Space of a bunch of MSU Twitter accounts and their copium is at an all time high. Accusing other teams of tampering with Coleman, saying that Thorne transferring is proof that all beat writers were lying about Thorne being starter after the spring, and saying that Brantley wasn't actually a starter (he was). Also that MSU Chief of Propaganda dude is only slightly less delusional than he portrays himself on his account
Brantley started 11 games in 2022.
Damn, pride comes before the fall amirite?
Tunnel comes before the Portal.
That is a classic.
Let's go!!!
Pass the popcorn!
I share her bemused boredom.
On the bright side, jersey #0 is wide open.
Wait? Wut? MSU had a CB?
Mel is Bizarro Deion
Except that in Deion’s case, players from his former school still want to play for him at his new school.
Picky, picky.
If Deion is "Prime", then Tuck is whatever falls below "USDA Select"
Tuck is ground chuck. When you make ground beef you cut the fat off the steaks to make it lean. Ground round is just steaks ground up. Ground Chuck gets the fat trimmings from the lean added in.
Ground Tuck < Prime
He can play special teams for the B1G favorites and NC contenders in A2 …
I'm sure Valenti will say this is Harbaugh's fault
Probably Mazi’s fault too
I'm confused. I thought when things go bad, Sparty only blames inanimate objects, like saaaaaaaay...I don't know...a tunnel?
Yeah. That's it. It's got to be the tunnel's fault.
Have to tune in for the 2pm meltdown
he probably won't say a word about it and just talk about the draft.
I missed it. What was his crazy take this time?
Last one out turn off the lights!
…I see I was beaten to it.
Tuck only has 8 of his first year 18 recruits left.
View outside the Spartan locker room...
That’s a shame
Going to wait until some of the dust settles on the Transfer Portal musical chairs before laughing at what is going on at MSU right now. My guess is that Tucker must be pursuing some other players in the Portal right now and might have led to some current starters deciding to keep their options open or leave. Coleman may also want Ishbia to open up his wallet to get paid before committing to coming back to MSU. Tucker was one of the first coaches at a Power 5 school to go heavy in the transfer portal for roster management, and I wonder if there is a long-term effect on program culture with that strategy.
Brantley was the starter, but he was not very good. Keon Coleman would be a major loss if he decides to leave. I am neutral on Payton Thorne. On one hand, they are losing a starter with two years experience in their system, but there are several other QB options in the portal that might be able to match his production for MSU. If MSU ends up empty handed with these players leaving though, it could get ugly this year.
Logically, it makes sense to hold off on laughing at Sparty until the full details emerge.
But who cares about logic when we're talking Sparty! They went mosh-pit-helmet-warfare on two of our players after getting "stomped" on the field, and then they blamed the frickin' tunnel.
Indulge yourself. Laugh like you're Henry Hill himself.
disagree. put the shoe on the other foot and imagine we had the equivalent of JJ, Cojo and will johnson going to the portal this place would rightfully explode.
it's not that they're losing players, its that they are losing their starters in critical positions which is an entirely different beast.
if you're a sparty, you're screaming 'mayday! mayday! mayday!' at this point
Message just came in for Mel... "Watch out for icebergs ahead."
i think that message came too late, he's already struck the berg.
i wrote a diary about that months ago, 'the trouble with transfers' and it looks like mel's chickens are coming home to roost.
Exactly.
April 30th, 2023 at 11:17 PM ^
disagree. put the shoe on the other foot and imagine we had the equivalent of JJ, Cojo and will johnson going to the portal this place would rightfully explode.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm not sure that comparison tracks, just because the programs are in such different places.
A more apt comparison might be:
Imagine how we would have felt leading into 2013 had Gardner, Gallon and Countess decided to transfer after the spring game...
okay, your overall point is still accurate.
or even a few years back with, say, shea, nico and zach. losing one or even two where there is a position battle that didn't turn out right is very understandable. losing 3 who were and will be starters is a siren call to 'abandon ship!!'
i'll just say that every time we've been wanting to write off sparty they have been like a vampire that comes back to life because the wooden stake missed their heart. hopefully we steamroll them next season in EL, but until/unless we're up multiple TD's with not a lot of time left, or unless it looks like a 'mercy rule' score in a pop warner game, i'll try to restrain any thoughts about gloating too much. not perfectly, mind you, but some.
He thinks he stuck the landing. He has $9.5 Million reasons why.
Kind of a rambling assemblage of contradictory speculations, but one thing you may be very right about: A coach who has already been disloyal to lots of kids with the portal may be shown less when it's time for players to do what's best for them. Even if Thorne remained the starter, he was looking forward to a pretty thankless season.
I don't see a lot of comparison to Deion myself, but what goes around may well come around for the most cavalier coaches.
You hate to see it
I cannot be the only one rooting they all transfer to CMU and beat the brakes off of MSU...
It appears the three smartest players on the Spartan roster entered the portal today…
I think Coleman comes back after ishiba pays him. They can’t afford to lose him
Assuming Ishbia hasn’t conceded Mel was a mistake and wants to keep him afloat.