Looking back at the 2009 football season Wednesday, Mark Dantonio said he wasn’t pleased with the team’s record, but the MSU head football coach was proud of how his team handled adversity.
MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio announced Wednesday that the 12 suspended players involved in the Nov. 22 assault at Rather Hall have been reinstated, while four of them have decided to leave the program.
Greg Jones will return for his senior season on the MSU football team, the junior linebacker announced Wednesday at MSU head coach Mark Dantonio’s year-end press conference.
MSU running backs coach Dan Enos has been named the next head coach at Central Michigan, according to a Central Michigan press release.
The nine MSU football players charged in the Nov. 22 assault were arraigned during winter break and are scheduled for pretrial conferences this week.
Any way you cut it, the 2009 MSU football season was a disappointment.
San Antonio — Greg Jones has a big decision to make. The NFL could be calling for MSU’s consensus All-America junior linebacker and Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year — and he’s going to listen. Jones told the media following Saturday’s Valero Alamo Bowl that he will sit down with his family and consider declaring for April’s NFL Draft. “We’re going to look at a lot of pros and cons,” Jones said.
San Antonio — The biggest story in terms of something that would happen on the field heading into the Valero Alamo Bowl turned out to be sophomore quarterback Keith Nichol moving to receiver for the game.
San Antonio — A costly interception, combined with two critical fourth-down conversions late by the Red Raiders, were too much for MSU to overcome, as Texas Tech came back to hand the Spartans a 41-31 loss Saturday night at the Alamodome.
San Antonio — Despite being outnumbered by the home Texas Tech fans, upbeat Spartan fans stick out at the Alamo Bowl hours before kickoff.
San Antonio — Usually tight to the vest with everything, MSU head coach Mark Dantonio surprised many people Friday by announcing that backup quarterback Keith Nichol will line up as a wide receiver and return punts in Saturday’s Valero Alamo Bowl against Texas Tech.
San Antonio — Adversity, and specifically overcoming it, has been the buzz word all week leading up to Saturday’s Valero Alamo Bowl.
Everywhere he goes, senior safety Danny Fortener has been hearing that the MSU football team’s defense has no shot of stopping Texas Tech’s potent passing offense.
As much as MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio may want to move past it, the fact that 12 players have been suspended from the Valero Alamo Bowl and two others have been removed from the team is something that will follow the Spartans to San Antonio, Texas.
Of the four wide receivers listed on the MSU football team’s depth chart for the Valero Alamo Bowl, only one came to campus on scholarship — sophomore Keshawn Martin.
Even though the football team was up and down this decade, there were plenty of talented players to wear the Green and White.
I couldn’t speak. My eyes were sprung open wide as a garage door, my legs seemingly bolted to the ground beneath me and my breathing heavy and panicked.
The most difficult thing about picking MSU’s male player of the decade is that there are many different ways to approach the question.
Nine MSU football players have been charged with assault for their actions in the Nov. 22 altercation at Rather Hall.
This year’s MSU football team would have beaten last year’s team. Now, obviously, you can look at the records and see that last year’s team won nine games, compared to six this season — but this year’s team was better in almost every statistic, and if a few breaks had gone the other way, the teams’ records could have flip-flopped.