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So exactly how excited should I be about this year’s football recruiting class?
Links:

Mark Dantonio Introduces 2009 Recruiting Class
From official MSU site.
MSU recruits: Meet the class of 2009
Photos.
Impact players: Baker, Caper, Fowler, Norman, Sims
Edwin Baker is Emmitt Smith, but with LaDainian Tomlinson’s speed!
High school football stars talk about recruiting process
Baker on “Why not U-M?”:  “They’re arrogant.”
Spartans’ [...]

Brian is using some of his spare time to consider our football team’s plight.  His main point is quickly conceded, as it’s a point I’ve made repeatedly over the last three months: This is fundamentally a 7-6 football team, not a 9-4 one.  He goes on to cite the following quote from an Atlanta blog, [...]

Well, I certainly didn’t think we’d see a 6-3 score line at the half. That’s what six weeks of staring at the same statistics can do to you–make you think a particular outcome (Georgia scoring early and often, in this case) is mathematically certain.
In my defense, I did point out in the bowl preview [...]

It’s now been 36 days since the Michigan State football team last played a game.  Since then:

The MSU basketball team has played nine games.
The Detroit Lions have played (and lost) six games.
Barack Obama has announced 25 cabinet-level appointees and key advisors.
Over two feet of snow has fallen and subsequently melted in the Lansing area.

This is [...]

OR “If the football team goes 9-3, the basketball blogger will take the time to do a full-fledged game preview for the bowl game.”
1:00 pm, Thursday, January 1.  The Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium, Orlando, Florida.  ABC.
Georgia’s and MSU’s win-loss resumes are nearly identical: 9-3 records with two decisive losses to top ten conference opponents (Alabama [...]

I’m not sure if they mentioned this during the basketball broadcast (my children were engaged in boisterous Sunday afternoon play at the time), but Coach Dantonio announced that MSU is going to the Capital One Bowl during a second-half time out.
So, all you football experts out there, how nervous should we be about facing a [...]

Against, my better judgment, allow me to weigh in on the Mark Dantonio double-timeout controversy.  (I’m still trying my best to finally take advantage of that “be controversial to increase your blog’s traffic” advice I read somewhere.)
Adam Rittenberg summarizes the facts of the case:
Leading 42-7 entering the fourth quarter, Penn State continued to attack downfield [...]