Dantonio
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Link please. I'll read anything that calls out Dantonio, even if its Hairball.
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Basically some MSU players were getting into it with UM players, and JH accused Dantonio of smiling while watching. Also, not sure, but looks like JH just munched down a booger before talking...
MSU should simply send the UM player a bill for the damage he just committed. That is vandalism.
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Couldn't the Big Ten suspend that player for such a classless act? Hahahahahaha ... I know, it's a Wolverine. Can you imagine the nuclear fallout if Kevin Givens were to do it at Michigan?
That video is only part of the story. For context the BTN should have shown what preceeded it.
the very definition of it. How is that even allowed? I mean its tearing up the turf?
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Doesn't help Michigan's cause much; a few players were on the field before MSU (who says there are NEVER players on the field when they do their pre-game 'phalanx' march) and wouldn't move. Timeline and link to video below....
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...n-state-football-pregame-michigan/1716936002/
The timeline
At 9:45 a.m., MSU players and coaches left Kellogg Center to make their traditional game day walk past fans and along the Red Cedar River.
Wearing helmets and gray sweatsuits, they started to pour through the Spartan Stadium tunnel at 10 a.m., lining up along the back of the north end zone. Players all linked arms to walk the length of the field, something they do before every home game, before gates open.
Michigan's Devin Bush and Lawrence Marshall stood in between the hashmarks near the north side 35-yard line. Lavert Hill, wearing headphones, walked circles around the Spartan head logo at midfield. A few others moved closer to the U-M sideline near midfield on the east side of the stadium.
Bachie said he has “never” seen opposing players on the field.
“We walk together (before) every game,” the junior linebacker said. “They just thought it was right to be on the field when we were walking. I guess a couple guys got tangled up a little bit. It’s just something we do every game."
Just before 10:02 a.m., the Spartans began their walk. Bush and Marshall were facing them. Both started doing squats as MSU players walked closer.
Michigan players, including Devin Bush (in yellow), refused to move as MSU went through its pregame walk, and a confrontation ensued, Oct. 20, 2018. Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press
The first player the interlocked Spartans encountered was linebacker Khaleke Hudson, who turned sideways and did not make contact with any MSU players around the 30-yard line.
At the 33-yard line, video shot by the Free Press shows Marshall stood up from his squat and reached both arms outward toward the oncoming opponents. He made contact with at least one of them and ripped his way through the interlinked arms that crossed his chest with a two-armed swim move.
Bush also stood still, his head down as the line of MSU players approached, then reached his hands out into one opponent. The Spartans appear to eventually pull their arms over Bush’s head.
Both Michigan players ended up standing on either side of Dantonio, who walked past them with his team. The two Wolverines turned and appeared to start yelling at a few Spartans who turned around. Dantonio seemed to tell his players to go the other direction, and they kept walking.
MSU senior safety Khari Willis said he has seen a few opposing players on the field before when the Spartans arrive for the walk.
“Most of them, I guess when they’re asked to move, they moved," Willis said. "Some people didn’t move. I don’t know, it was a little chirping and stuff that happened from there. Some other teams respect it and move out the way, and some teams don’t. I think it was just talking more than anything.”
Hill, meanwhile, slowly bobbed his way toward the oncoming MSU players near the north side 45-yard line and walked directly into the procession, getting swept up with them across midfield before appearing to shove one of the Spartans in the back. Hill continued to follow the MSU players down the field yelling before being restrained by a Michigan staffer.
A rope went up across the field seconds later. The Spartans met in the south end zone, let out their usual cheer, then ran back toward the tunnel and their locker room. Michigan players continued to yell at them, and MSU players barked back.
MSU quarterback Brian Lewerke said he was told strength coach Ken Mannie asked the Michigan contingent to move before the Spartans began their walk.
“I guess we maybe might have been a little late," Lewerke said. "We always link arms and walk down the field. To my knowledge, coach Mannie had gone and informed the Michigan players that we were about to do that and just asked them to step to the side. And they didn’t, so we just kept walking.”
“I guess one of them ran into one of the guys and we just kept doing our walk. We walked down, then ran back to the tunnel. Didn’t make it into anything bigger than it needed to be.”
Bush, meanwhile, walked toward the Spartan head at midfield and began dragging his feet across the logo and putting divots in the turf. He kicked and thrashed until his beanie hat fell off, then scuffed up the logo some more.
MSU players did not see that live, but they quickly saw the video while they were in the locker room.
“Everyone knew it had happened,” Lewerke said.
Said defensive tackle Raequan Williams: “I guess they had a certain mindset. I mean, what are you gonna do to the field, I guess? It was childish.”
The Spartan Stadium grounds crew came out to repair the damage to the logo before the actual warmup clock began.
But that was just the warmup act.
The two teams combined for six offsetting unsportsmanlike conduct penalties in the game. There also were three personal foul flags thrown.
“It’s Michigan-Michigan State," Willis said. “We both feel some type of way about each other. And I feel that’s just a result of the emotions and tempers flying.”
In case you’re wondering, MSU plays at Michigan on Nov. 16 next season.
Both coaches are douches.
All those antics just show what a rivalry game is like. Wish we had one.
All those antics just show what a rivalry game is like. Wish we had one.
No, all those antics show that coach Harbaugh has no control over his players and they don't fear him as a disciplinarian.
Bush acted out like a common street thug. I don't see any way to justify his behavior. What an embarrassment to Michigan and yet his coach tries to justify it.
Too bad Hill didn’t stay committed to PSU. He would have grown into a man, rather than staying a teenager.
If you are referring to the Nasser thing.....he's long gone.
No I’m talking about their entire athletic dept. they groomed out the director but it’s still mostly intact from Nassar days
I was shocked that this wasn't taken more seriously. This guy should have been arrested.
The disagreement is not about whether there was prior communication on the schedule, rather whether MSU intentionally began their “unity walk” later than they had previously communicated in order to disrupt and confront the UM players on the field warming up. UM claims they asked twice last week about the timing of the walk to ensure no UM players would be on the field.
Guess I was wrong. Losing 8 out the last 11, though, Winovich was more wrong: Michigan is "little brother" now.
For what it’s worth, there’s video of Dantonio standing behind his players appearing to smile/smirk as they confronted the UM players.
Anison, you are a good guy, and a good poster, but Harbaugh and Dantonio deserve one another.
It reminds me of the brilliant UM basketball team that decided stomp the Duke logo in 2000 at Cameron. Duke opened on a 34-2 run.
Well...I’ll never be a fan of sinking to Dantonio’s level, but am taking unexpected delight in Harbaugh’s abject pettiness. I suppose it lends some credence to the criticism that UM hasn’t been taking the rivalry as serious/personal as MSU lately.Anison, you are a good guy, and a good poster, but Harbaugh and Dantonio deserve one another.
Lets just forget the fact that MSU changed the time of when they would arrive at least 3 times, they ripped of Lavert Hill's headphones and clotheslined another player all while D'Antonio did sit there and laugh as video evidence have showed.
What a great leader of young men.
MSU made a statement, of course they are going to protect their coach who has continued to let criminals, rapists and racists return to school to play on his football team. MSU leaders are just so reputable, right? I mean the bad guys are all gone now hahahahaha
I live in Michigan, both programs are insufferable, but Sparty is about 100x worse overall, that I promise.
What a great leader of young men.
MSU made a statement, of course they are going to protect their coach who has continued to let criminals, rapists and racists return to school to play on his football team. MSU leaders are just so reputable, right? I mean the bad guys are all gone now hahahahaha
I live in Michigan, both programs are insufferable, but Sparty is about 100x worse overall, that I promise.
Come on, when you line up arm and arm and walk the length of the field when you know your guests are occupying part of the field, that’s bush league. And I’m certainly not a Michigan fan.
