Time to Kick Some Sparty Ass, Breslin Style
Will acknowledge that I have had a cocktail or two this evening. But would say the same thing sober.
Some of my best friends are Spartys, and the ladies there have always been attractive, friendly and willing. But it doesn't take Juwan showing a Draymond Green video for me to despise their team and overall hoops program.
Their team this year is a bunch of underachieving zeros. Izzo is past his prime and needs to go hang w Mork in some shithole senior citizens bar and tell boring stories about their glory days.
Duke is in the NIT waiting for their Sparty rematch. We need to kick the living shit out of them in Breslin and knock them off the bubble.
This is our year w an energetic, fun and talented team! No room for whiny Izzo and his shitty team on the big stage. Screw Sparty - and Go Blue!!!
A Michigan win at the Breslin would be a nice way to send out their senior class.
I remember in 2000 when Tim kept his seniors in until the end of the game when they won 114-63.
I know it was their last game, but a respect was not shown that day. Usually you bring out your best players when you are winning big.
Another blowout by Michigan today would be nice.
OK, off to work I go.
Wait...wait...WAIT...
Spartan women are attractive, friendly and willing? You must have hung out with the freshwomen. But the time they are seniors they are bitter, unenthusiastic and look like 50 miles of bad road.
Joking. Just joking. Maybe.
Sparty women are like betting on the Hard 10 while playing Craps in the casino: You know they are bad for you, but you just cant stay off them...
You gotta lay off the high hard ones.
If we win do we get our Big Ten championship back from Illinois?
A win would likely give, even him, a pause. A loss would, admittedly, give credence to his contention. Otherwise, it sucks to be him.
No. Any team that beat the best team during the season gets to claim they're the real number one team and hang a banner. Congrats to minnesota and illinois.
You’ll have to ask Ayo. I believe he’s the arbiter.
its a sin, particularly on a sunday, to think of izzo as an angry dwarf but there you have it. we should feel sorry for him because he never got to go on the amusement park rides but instead, where is the compassion in our hearts for his height-challenged life? we wish to heap ashes on his head and see him tear and render his garments. about the best i can come up with is an imprecatory prayer that vanquishes sparty and tiny tom. i need to repent....
MUST be accompanied by an adult . . .
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Not a good way to start Sunday morning here. Yours is the 4th comment I've read and I decided to look up Izzo's height...5'9". Same as me.
Rats.
But you’re not Izzo, so it’s fine.
There's a guy in my workplace who believes he's 6 feet. (He also claims to have been recruited as a WR by Big 10 schools. This is not supported.)
He's about 5'9". He -- and lots of other people -- don't realize that the average height is about 5'10".
Izzo just looks short.
Average sized people look super short around basketball players. There's so much better stuff to roast Izzo over like the whining and other facial expressions from the sideline, "weird guys" and "strange lineups", benching Jeron Jackson for Ben Carter and all of the other times he throws his players under the bus during press conferences.
If Izzo's 5'9" I'm Dikembe Mutumbo.
indeed. if izzo is 5' 9" then i'm 6' 9". for comparison's sake, see tiny here with beilein. that would make JB about 6' 3"
and now with juwan,
there is no way that izzo is 5' 9". if juwan straightens up izzo wouldn't come up to his arm pit.
If this stupid looking mascot was kneeling next to Tiny Tom instead of 20 feet away, they'd be the same height.
I decided to look up Izzo's height...5'9".
That's his listed height. You know how that goes.
At best, he was 5’9” when he was 20. Today, not a chance in Hell (Michigan). He is probably closer to 5’7”
Interesting note: he can actually get a little bit of that height back. After a mostly sedentary middle age I started a lifting program (Starting Strength) and I regained close to a full half-inch of height in a couple years.
That's because your foot muscles got bigger!
Solid FIVE out of FIVE fakes.
Thanks everyone! I feel taller now.
rgard, i have little doubt you could take izzo to the hole and dunk on him. my guess is that's about 5' 7". you would tower over him.
Sounds good. :-)
Whoever listed him at 5'9 must also be the person who does the height for all the college football teams!
BEAT STAEE TWICE!
THRICE IS NICE!
I think they lose their first round game in the BTT
If we win today, especially if it's decisive, Sparty will crumble and lose their first game in the BTT. They are not a mentally strong team. Their midseason "performance" is proof of that.
Let's hope the boys are focused and can quickly eliminate the losers of Lansing, regroup, kick ass in the B1G tourney, and then destroy everyone in the Big Dance to give Juwan a NC in his 2nd season as a head coach.
Only one coach seems to have done this in only his 2nd hear as being a HC (with no prior HC experience) and that was Kevin Ollie. Here's the article that breaks down how long it takes a coach to win a NC.
The only one to have done it in his first season ( and he he wasn't even the HC during the regular season) was none other than Michigan's Steve Fisher.
Kevin Ollie was hired by Warde Manuel to replace a living legend at UCONN, Jim Calhoun. The parallels are strong.
National championship or not, I hope and anticipate that Howard will have more sustained success than Ollie.
Considering how the rest of Kevin Ollie's tenure went, I hope the "win a title in year 2" is the only parallel going forward.
So pumped! Go Blue!
Would be a great way to End Izzo. Whiny Tim is surely reading the tea leaves about the #1 recruiting class Juwan is bringing in, and years to come of ass-whoopings. So tired of seeing that little whiner. End him.
You people are fooling yourselves if you think this season will run Izzo out of town. The little cretin walks at the time of his choosing.
It wont run him out of town - but hoping Juwan makes his life completely miserable until he hangs it up...
This is true. Just last week an RCMB title said: 'Izzo - how lucky are we to have this guy?'. Seriously... The thread was filled with appreciation for the guy. Granted, this was not long after they hacked Illinois to death, and they were all still crying that they are the most penalized team in the B1G.
I read that thread. Wow. Just amazing how sparty fans worship him.
(why am I saying something nice about RCMB)
but good for them to have an appreciation thread instead of dumping on Izzo after this season. College BB impossible to predict, but it is entirely possible that MSU won't win another National Championship for 30 years (or more).
Bury them. Wish lil Foster was part of this. What happened to him? They don’t even mention his name on broadcasts. Is he locked in a cage in Izzo’s basement?
He’s hurt, supposedly but i wonder if that’s just being put out there to prevent hurt feelings. He’s terrible and they’re way better when he’s not playing
Normally I would be very nervous but today feeling strangely confident
The good guys have nothing to lose. Hope they come out loose, have fun, shoot the lights out and go home with some icing on this awesome regular season cake!
A quick perusal of the RCMB this morning shows them to be a little muted for the last few days. I've no doubt, though, that the vitriol will ramp up closer to game time. The mouth breathers will be drunk and voicing opinions like Ayo's.
Finish them. Mercilessly.
We can have moar nice things. Please.
Wagner 2.0 break some ankles at the breslin!!!
We’re gonna have to play them a third time most likely so they have got to take this game and the next one very seriously. It’s not easy to beat the same team three times in one week no matter how bad that team is. Sparty needs this win to get to the tourney so they will be really hyped up. Just win the game and BEAT STATE!