To the student section, I am embarrassed that you don’t get that the profane cheers are not intimidating anyone. They’re more than likely firing up the other team.

So, MSU football year after year does nothing significant, visiting teams gets those bounces or calls and the program is muddling in mediocrity. Bad karma.

The Izzone intimidates, they don’t swear. So MSU basketball year after year is a national power, the visiting teams don’t get the bounces or calls and MSU basketball goes to multiple Final Fours. Good karma.

MSU athletics department, I am embarrassed that year after year, you approve the making up of a mascot for other schools that have no official mascot running the sidelines. A Mr. Potato Head for Idaho, a can of Hawaiian Punch for Hawaii and your latest embarrassment: A bag of chips for Central Michigan.

Shame on you for showing a negative side of being a Spartan to the fans and alumni from the other school who travel from all parts of the country and pay to sit in our stadium to see their alma mater made fun of by MSU, for what? A cheap pop from the crowd? For all the years of doing this, karma popped Sparty’s head off.

Also, MSU athletics department, you try to curb student behavior by taking traditional cheers away, but yet you set the example that MSU has to make fun of its opponent to win. MSU athletics department, you are setting the example here.

If you keep doing this, then you can’t be critical of the crowd behaviors, because you instigate it by pulling off this juvenile stunt almost every year.

Maybe if we as a whole Spartan nation show better sportsmanship, karma might work for the football program one day.

Peter Sanchez

2000 graduate