OT: Top 100 CB Jamari Howard decommits from MSU
Howard was the top player in MSU's 2024 class. He's a South Florida kid and is widely believed to end up at Florida, Miami, or FSU unshockingly. MSU now has 3 players in their 2024 class with their top commit being #400 in the composite
Grad students? It's good to have a bug out plan.
Has there ever been a worse case of a school jumping the gun to extend a coach and saddling itself with a bigger albatross? Mel has to be one of the luckiest men in the world to have gained generational wealth from a great transfer RB and all the breaks going his way in one year.
Can’t help but almost feel bad for the guy. Of course he’s going to take the unjustifiable contract that his AD gave him. But his fans are starting to hate him for it. Oh well. At least he’s a SD4L.
Well, Mel could always come back to Colorado. They love him here.
s/
It's hilarious because we all saw this coming. You could look at the Kenneth Walker season and see how many more losses they would've had without him and now we're at that point
So far it's looking worse than the Charlie Weis contract.
For the young, Notre Dame was 5-2 in 2005 with a close loss to an admittedly great USC team when Notre Dame gave him a ten-year $30 or $40 million contract extension (which was huge at the time). At the time, USC was the Georgia of the day and at the tail end of a 34-game winning streak at the time, eventually losing narrowly to Vince Young and Texas in the Rose Bowl. Notre Dame finished 9-3 with a bowl loss to Ohio State.
Weis, though, at least managed a ten-win season in 2006 before sinking back to mediocrity.
We'll see if Tucker can right the ship. Given the nature of his contract, he should have plenty of time.
We had Charlie Weis day for a few years much like Bobby Bonilla day. Good times. Shrewd MFers.
$95 M over 10 years. Say that again please
As soon as Kenneth Walker had immediate success in the NFL and then you watch what happened on the football field, you just knew he was propping the whole thing up.
Our Sparty expectations were already low a couple weeks ago, but holy fuck they're just imploding now.
It seems that I may have a very different point of view. MSU is absolutely heading in the right direction. The experience, prowess, and knowledge of the staff is shining right now. One of my few hopes is - they are able to sustain and build upon this indescribable momentum.
SD4L - or at least a few weeks after committing…
SD4W--Sparty Dawg, four weeks
Tuck comin!
Brick by brick.
Eventually when enough cracks form...
All dam failures are mesmerizing. My favorite is the one where Apollo Creed punched one and won WWII.
Gonna need a bucket and waders stat.
It just dawned on me.. Mel is “ahead of the curve” - and, until a moment ago, I didn’t realize this.
So, what’s he really doing in EL? NFL… yes, National Football League stuff. After all - playing on Sundays and an NFL career is what many D1 college players aspire to.
It’s culture, ability, professionalism, scheme, flexibility, and rosters.
Damn, 7LMel is awfully clever. How? Just look - he’s already adopting the NFL’s 55 player roster - and incorporating it as a foundation for Spartan football. He’s way ahead of his time…
Players know a fraud and bail ship. But the brass at East Lansing saw something worth $95 Million.
Maybe they should let the players at Michigan St write up the coaches contracts.
Man, $95 Million guaranteed.
And how's that Nebraska ocean beach front investment doing East Lansing?
I like the rcmb guy who correctly picks up on 'apart' but has no problem with 'first and for most.'
Doesn't hold a candle to the guy who went with "pre madonna"
L4MSU
I find it both joyous and infuriating that in a short while there will be be--and what's worse, will never have been--any Sparty football fans. Half their grads will scurry under rocks, half will proclaim they've always been a basketball school and half (Sparty math) will shout something about scUMmy Wal-Mart Wolvies.
Say what you like about Buckeyes fans, they never pretend they don't care.
“Half of you to the East wing, half of you to the West wing, the rest of you come with me.” — Cogsworth
Tom Izzo after being told he can't take his name off of the new football facility.
Tom Izzo and football seem a lot like oil and water…
I kind of always viewed Sparty basketball as football on wood.
Not sure what he stands four? I think he stands at least four-two!
The sign with his name is to high for him to reach to take down
Yeah, good point, I thought they liked him?
Let the RCMB meltdown intensify!
Are they blaming the tunnel yet for this?
If Tucker had stood up for his players after the incident and against the "frame job" by Harbaugh and Manuel, the morale and attitude of the Spartan FB team would be completely different!
(Actual, not uncommon, sentiments seen over at tRCMB.)
Not uncommon? More like prevailing. They are so warped that they view that whole incident as some kind of rallying point. Fuck them, they deserve all the worst.
I believe AZBlue was employing litotes in his use of "not uncommon." Dictionary.com nicely defines litotes as "understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in 'not bad at all.'"
You both agree that RCMB is full of tin-foil topped sociopaths, you just expressed it differently.
Here endeth the insufferable pedantry.
I look at it this way. We are getting stuck with annual games against Riley’s Trojans (according to WOTS a few weeks ago). So its only fair MSU wont be a major pain in the rear for a while. The football gawds giveth, and they taketh away.
Most reports have speculated that M is getting UCLA and OSU is getting USC.
Heartbreaking!!🤣🤣
Sign stupid contracts, win stupid prizes.
They deserve this for all the self-righteousness during the Dantonio years.
It’s hard to argue, but - this might win the “stupid contract” contest
Kudos to the people here who called it awhile ago
The money quote still is by Saban, after leaving MSU, said because it was too hard to recruit in Ms shadow. I wish I remembered the exact quote but that was the gist, and it was a very honest take.
That fully guaranteed $95 million contract looking pretty darn sweet right now, amirite?
/s if not blatantly obvious
No "/s" needed if you are a M fan.....
You hate to see it happeh... or has this already been entered? I don't know I'm drunk.
Any way to get some UM NIL money earmarked to MSU for making sure Tuck Stayin'?
I almost never comment at mgoblog anymore. But I wish people could just enjoy Michigan more, instead of dumping on MSU. I'm no fan of MSU, and in fact, I don't follow them at all. Have never been to any MSU sports websites, not even once. But there comes a point where it's just piling on. How bad do MSU and Indiana and Rutgers, etc. have to be? Obviously, I always want Michigan to win. But it's not much fun when it is the equivalent of playing a D2 team.
After what we witnessed in the tunnel of our own stadium and the reaction of the fanbase? Sorry, but in this case I think some piling on is well deserved.
The program needs to be burnt to the ground before anything reasonable can grow from it.
I see it the same way. One constant during the Dantonio years and continuing under Tuck Comin is the egregious number of personal fouls when they played us. That is coaching and it is intended to hurt players. They sow what they reap - they gave up on character and class a while ago. That is what is special about playing Ohio State. It is always a hard fought game with some after the whistle shenanigans, but there is always mutual respect.