 
Vetalalumni
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Username: Vetalalumni
Post Number: 1047
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 7:21 pm: |    |
Spartan basketball is exciting. Izzo is a good coach. Let's talk about it here. |
Vetalalumni
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Username: Vetalalumni
Post Number: 1113
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 8:25 pm: | |
Good win at Crisler. Now rest and prepare for Tuesday night game against Big Ten favorite Purdue. |
Vetalalumni
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Username: Vetalalumni
Post Number: 1193
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 1:49 pm: | |
Too many turnovers. |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 938
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 2:01 pm: | |
it was brutal. too many turnover and too many missed shots. I think that the week off they had didn't help them. They looked rusty. |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 939
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 2:07 pm: | |
it was brutal. too many turnover and too many missed shots. I think that the week off they had didn't help them. They looked rusty. |
Vetalalumni
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Username: Vetalalumni
Post Number: 1245
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 5:40 pm: | |
Wore down the Badgers. Keeping the conference loses at 3 would be great. |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 949
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 8:37 pm: | |
MSU is a very mercurial team. I think they are the most talented team in the conference by a long shot, but their seniors lack the leadership needed to keep them playing at a high level for long periods of time. Those lapses can be killer. Great comeback on saturday, but Suton needs to play that hard all game every game. |
Danny
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Username: Danny
Post Number: 4508
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 4:48 pm: | |
GO GREEN GO SPARTANS! WE'RE IN FIRST PLACE IN THE BIG TEN. First the Spartans are going to bring the Big Ten tournament trophy home. Next the NCAA National Championship Trophy home where it belongs. |
Vetalalumni
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Username: Vetalalumni
Post Number: 1320
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 6:34 pm: | |
Nice win against Illinois. First half of Q4 MSU seemed without the will to maintain dominance. Second half of Q4 MSU dropped the lethargy and had staying power. |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 963
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 6:51 pm: | |
MSU earned at least a share of the Big Ten Title. First time in a long time. Feels good. |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 966
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 8:25 am: | |
Go right through for MSU!!!
Outright Big Ten Champions!!! Hopefully we get a win against Purdue to close out the regular season and then win the BTT. That should be enough to get us a #1 seed. |
Ohudson
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Username: Ohudson
Post Number: 223
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 10:35 am: | |
Wow, Vetalalumni & El_jimbo account for all but 1(now 2) of the DY support for such a great season.
Congrats to MSU, and shave Coach Izzo's head! In fact, for team unity, why not shave everyone on the team's heads! Do it! |
_sj_
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Username: _sj_
Post Number: 1712
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 10:39 am: | |
Maybe there is truth to that Metro Detroit Blue Wall they have been talking about for decades. |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 967
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 10:45 am: | |
sj,
there is no question that the Blue Wall exists. If Michigan had won the Big Ten Championship you'd better believe it would be MUCH more prominent. MSU winning couldn't even get top billing on the sports section over a regular season Pistons game. |
Eastburn
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Username: Eastburn
Post Number: 707
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 10:45 am: | |
Thank God for Raymar Morgan! Great to see him back on his game. Without that spectacular last minute dunk we might not be celebrating yet. |
Eastburn
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Username: Eastburn
Post Number: 708
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 10:46 am: | |
Actually, I guess it was a slam, eh? |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 968
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 10:47 am: | |
they certainly made things interesting... |
D_mcc
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Username: D_mcc
Post Number: 1675
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 11:25 am: | |
East...it was less of a slam, and more of a forceful putback, either way, GOLD!
Those damn Hoosiers had me worried for a bit, thank god we were able to pull it off!
GO GREEN! |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 969
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 11:26 am: | |
If Crean can keep his guys playing with as much heart and guts as his kids are showing this year when he starts bringing in more talent, he is going to be a force to be reckoned with in the Big Ten. |
D_mcc
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Username: D_mcc
Post Number: 1677
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 11:30 am: | |
the number 8 recruiting class nationally certainly won't hurt his chances of brining back the program. |
Eastburn
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Username: Eastburn
Post Number: 709
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 11:52 am: | |
I can see the Big 10 getting a lot tougher than it already is. Some outstanding coaches. |
Danny
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Username: Danny
Post Number: 4542
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 8:26 am: | |
GO GREEN!
Spartans men basketball is NUMBER ONE! in the NCAA conference!
S GO STATE!
WOLVERINES SUCK! |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 971
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 - 7:35 am: | |
It's a sad statement about just how unwelcome MSU is in the Detroit area that I had to go to Chicago to find a big city bar that would fly a MSU flag outside. I was there over the weekend visiting friends and we happened to stop into O'Malley's West to catch the game on Sunday.
Kissing the S has to be one of my favorite traditions. |
Kenp
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Username: Kenp
Post Number: 1372
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 - 8:51 am: | |
"Kissing the S has to be one of my favorite traditions."
Is there an "AS" in front of it? |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 972
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 - 8:52 am: | |
Nope. We leave that tradition for wolverines and other members of the weasel family. |
Kenp
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Username: Kenp
Post Number: 1373
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 - 9:09 am: | |
couldnt resist |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 973
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 - 9:12 am: | |
Yeah...and there's really no way for me to say it that wouldn't make it an easy target either. Oh well. It was a good laugh. |
Drankin21
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Username: Drankin21
Post Number: 302
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 - 10:14 am: | |
I also have wondered why we don't have bars that cater to one side or the other like Chicago (Gin Mill, O'Malley's), New York (Blondie's) and other cities have.
What bar in the area would you say is the most "Spartan Friendly"?
Mr. B's on Van Dyke in Shelby Township is a very Spartan Central location. |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 975
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 - 10:49 am: | |
I think the problem is that you don't have areas that have dense concentrations of college graduates like you do in the Lincoln Park and Wrigleyville areas of Chicago. When you get that combination of density and university affiliation you can have bars like that. In Metro Detroit, we don't have that combination of college graduation rates, affluence, and density in any one neighborhood that would support bars that cater to one school or another like that. |
Drankin21
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Username: Drankin21
Post Number: 303
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 10:36 am: | |
I disagree El_jimbo, the Royal Oak area (Berkley, Ferndale inc.) has a pretty high concentration of State grads and I think it would be ripe for a State central bar. I, for one, would travel the half hour it would take me to get there as well just to be surrounded by fellow Spartans. |