Neato Ending In MSU/Domer Game

Well, it’s Monday afternoon and my voice still sounds like a mixture of Mac’s mom (IASIP) and puberty (voice cracking and all). Simply put, the ending of the MSU/Domer game was one of the greatest finishes in Spartan football history. No offense to Dan Conroy (he’s 3-3 on the season), but literally no one in Spartan Stadium thought he was going to make a 46 yard field goal to force double OT. We’ve seen that ending before (John Goss and UM), and felt doomed to repeat it. It doesn’t get any better than under the lights, OT, national TV against your other biggest rival (Indiana of course being our first) pulling a fake on 4th and 14 to win a game. Amazing.

What this game taught me about MSU? Le’Veon Bell is the real deal. When he absorbed that massive hit by Teo on a screen pass and it took it upfield for a first down on 3rd and long…he showed some toughness and determination that few Freshman are able to show so early in their career.

Our defense? This is basically our approach. You can dink and dunk us all you want. We will give you a free release off the line and give you an uncontested catch 7 yards down the field. Then…we just try to hit the crap out of you and hopefully cause a fumble. We play our defense an Ann Coulter level of conservative. Rarely will we give up a completion of over 20 yards. If you get greedy, that’s when we are able to make a play. Long drives are the norm against us.

Is MSU any good? Who knows. Our defensive strategy is maddening to me to say the least. I’m interested to see if we make any changes come Big Ten season. Our offense is much better than I thought. The emergence of Bell has made our running game much, much better than I anticipated, and the loss of White from last years receiving corps has hurt us more than I thought in the passing game.

There has been some controversy regarding the supposed delay of game on the fake FG. First, the Big East officials who called the game said it was officiated correctly and actually explain their reasoning in a lot of detail. If you agree with it or not, it’s interesting nonetheless. Second, I’ll let this video break it down for you. If that doesn’t interest you, I encourage you atleast to play it to enjoy the pretty music.

So, the snap came off .2 seconds late. The phrase “lag time” will probably become popular this week. If Domer fans and others want to make a big deal about this then let them. But getting angry at a ref for missing a delay of game call by .2 seconds that is enforced by a Ref looking at the far scoreboard then having to look to see if the ball is snapped seems petty. Ehh, it’s controversy. Gantt would have scored from 34 yards out anyways.

My favorite video of the week after the jump….

Stay for the TWIST ending. My seats were near Domer visiting section basically directly across the field from where this was filmed. To say watching that TD was enjoyable surrounded by them would be a vast understatement. Two pretty rough endings for the Domers in consecutive weeks. I’m sure most MSU and UM fans are enjoying their early season woes Scott Tenorman style.