http://statenews.com Bloomington, Ind. — It could have been the back breaker that brought out those dreaded words: Same Old Spartans. MSU had pinned the Indiana Hoosiers inside their own five. The down was third-and-seven. The Spartan defense was hungry for a safety, already leading 34-29 late in the third quarter. en-us Gryphon 2.2.3b-tsn (woodward)/Foundry5 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:53:39 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23481 We won so that’s good, but we didn’t show much funk nor flavor. However, Hoyer did look better! I want to see other tailbacks/fullbacks touch that ball! Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:58:06 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23481 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23482 Ringer got 198 yards. Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:01:42 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23482 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23483 Offense looked pretty good, but our defense has to play better than that when we get to the meat of our schedule. Let’s come home and stuff the Hawkeyes next week. Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:05:31 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23483 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23485 I just wanted to say that the win against Indiana was a good one. I am pretty sure that this kind of game was one that we would have lost with John L, but with coach dantino, we were able to win. A good win for the the program. But make no mistake about it, we need to play better defense if we want to compete with OSU, PSU, Wisconsin and even UM. Let’s hope that we learn from this game and move on to competing for the Big Ten championship. Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:32:14 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23485 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23489 Well Iowa and N’Western will be test that will define the season potentially. If we win these two I’d say we are positioned to be in the driver seat for the Big 10. The key is the play the full game as “One” Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:08:54 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23489 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23494 Big win for MSU!! Proud of all our boys. I am still disappointed that ringer does (has to?) carry 40+ times a game. Don’t get me wrong, hes a freak athlete and a hoss of a running back (if not in size) But no one, and I mean NO ONE, can carry 480 times in the big10. It just doesn’t happen. He said that yesterday was the biggest/worst pounding he has taken so far, and that was against IU. What are Iowa/OSU/Mich/Wisky/PSU gonna do to him? We need to limit him to 25-30 touches a game. Jimmerson needs to play more/better as does Hoyer. It was a great win and I’m not trying to be nitpicky, but if we don’t play better, then we did yesterday, I envision another 3-5 big 10 campaign. We do have the team, talent and coaching to go 6-2 big10 though. We’ll see….. GO GREEN! GO WHITE!! GO STATE!!! Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:50:26 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23494 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23498 We will win with balance. That’s means not wearing Ringer out. That means spreading the ball around; a possession style attack using the TE’s and the FB’s. 7,8, 9 yard stuff. POSSESSION!!! Hoyer is not cabale of carrying this team with the long ball, notwithstanding his performance yesterday. Teams will put 8 in the box and defy us to pass. Treadwell needs to re-think his play-calling and use the TE’s and FB’s more. We are going to the well too much with Ringer. A great kid but his tank is not limitless. Iowa is a better squad than IU. We will need more than just Javon next week and for the following weeks. Let’s get Anderson and Jimmerson into this thing. Throw those FB’s abone, too. POSSESSION, POSSESSION, POSSESSION. Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:37:21 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23498 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23566 The game was very sloppy, very scary! If you need a kicker to beat the lowly Hoosiers, you are in a world of trouble. I heard Dantonio on WJR this morning extolling the virtues of his defense. Except for the referee catching a hold in the end-zone, the defense would have been exposed again as shaky at best. If they play that way over the next several weeks, they will be pounded by IA,NW,OSU,WI& PSU. Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:34:09 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23566 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23589 It is easy to say we looked good on defense when you take away the big play, but those are the plays that get us talking about “only losing by 7 points or less” six times a year. Watching this past game you could really feel when our defense was going to allow a back-breaker. No other sane football fan would expect a touchdown pass to occur from a team’s own 5-yard line, but after Indiana escaped the first safety call in the third quarter I just knew they were going to throw for it all. Luckily they did commit those holds that saved it for us, but we shouldn’t count on the other team shooting themselves in the foot all the time. Our third downs are a mess on defense, too. Whether our opponent is 1, 10, or even 20 yards short of a first down I have every faith they’ll get it through the air on us. It is like we just mentally lapse on third down! Enough ranting… GO STATE!!! Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:39:24 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23589 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23590 The holding play allowed Chappell to make that 97-yard TD pass. If Kershaw isn’t held; Chappell gets tatooed. Also, nobody has mentioned the obvious safety on the previous play that the referees missed. I guess they made up for it. Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:48:12 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23590 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23591 I saw poor play in almost all phases of Spartan team with exception of Kicker. Why don’t linebackers and ends stay home. Why not blitz when the slower QB came in-linebackers surely were not covering anyone-especially Middle lb’s..Sloppy and if it continues Spartans will be exposed. Concerned Spartan Fan.. Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:53:39 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23591