Appreciate this. Quick question...does MSU do that walk through before every home game at 10 am (or whatever equivalent 2 hours before kickoff)?
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Appreciate this. Quick question...does MSU do that walk through before every home game at 10 am (or whatever equivalent 2 hours before kickoff)?
yes- they have been doing the "Phalanx" walk for past 12 years- I think they do it at away games as well but not sure the timing-and has never been an issue- they said in past there may be a few players from visiting teams stretching or whatever and they always step aside without incident- weird how this game just "happened" to have multiple cameras at the ready to view the "confrontation"
and despite what a Michigan fan said above that Coaches Lead the way "every time" simply false news- I have picture from 2012 I think our Spring game of Dantonio walking BEHIND the Phalanx as he did this game and team is wearing helmets
he also claimed this was FIRST time they wore helmets- lol that is false as well as per articles I posted above, they wore the Helmets from the walk from Kellogg Center
"The Spartans’ support staff were arriving to the field via the tunnel in the Free Press photo. MSU players wore helmets and gray sweatsuits on their walk to the stadium. The Spartans’ outfits for the pregame walk to the stadium often vary, from suits to warmup attire and occasionally with helmets."
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i have always noticed when somebody has no intelligent response to something they correct spelling, like anybody gives a shit. did i spell that right?
tell the whole story, slappy. dantonio was leading them in , then fell behind the line when he saw michigan players on the field.
and harbaugh did what? he commented on it after the fact. which by the way he had every right to do.
I am on TV 6-10 times a year, not nearly the exposure that Harbaugh gets. I would hope that someone who is on TV that frequently(and works hard to get on TV) would know the expectations(not picking your nose being one). I don't know any deep dark secrets, just know enough personally to know he is a little weird, maybe it is what makes him great. As far as the 'family invited him' lol...perhaps one of the worst rationalizations I have read. Keep working on it though.
explain. what exactly do you think went on there? so you have never, in your entire life accepted an invitation to spend the night at a friends house? you are trying so hard to be relevant that it is embarrassing.
I figured they did, but timing wise is it always at that same time? All the reports are that the visiting team was allowed to start warmup on the field at 10 and MSU was late in their normal process.
So just curious if they normally do it earlier or is it just an unwritten rule that opposing players don't go on the field that early?
In any case it's all stupid rivalry BS that only makes these games more fun going forward. $10K to MSU is nothing and just the conference saying we had to do something.
I assume it is at that time ( 2hrs before kickoff) every time and per the statements they give the opponent the timeline each week-apparently per all the reports 4-8 UM players were out there before 10 AM along with a camera crew and MSU was 2 minutes late (10:02) on getting on the field as per the articles saying they left 2 mins late from Kellogg Center (9:47) in the past they did say sometimes there are a few players out there but they all step aside when MSU does the walk- this time they didn't- I would think that from now on they will change the rules and not allow visiting team on the field until 90 mins before kickoff which is the official time they can from what I've read
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Dude, let it go. Most people on here seem to think Dantonio is the prick in this situation. So what if most of us and probably every other fan base sans Michigan think Harbaugh is a weirdo. His awkward interviews, recruiting adventures (climbing trees and sleepovers with kids), going shirtless in practice...all of this is odd.
The MSU statement says the opposing team is granted access early but asked to exit briefly for the walk. "As a courtesy, Michigan was granted field access before MSU’s arrival with the understanding from both sides that the U of M student-athletes would leave the field during this tradition."
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...nds-jim-harbaugh-comments-pregame/1733423002/
Quit trying to defend Dantonio. He’s the sleaziest coach in the conference. Always has been.
Harbaugh, Michigan’s head football coach, lived in Iowa City during the early 1970s when his father, Jack, was an Iowa assistant. In late winter of 1971, Harbaugh had a painful introduction to his then-new community.
“I broke my leg in Iowa City, the first day we moved to Iowa City,” Harbaugh said. “I was (7) years old chasing my brother after the first day of school and across the street and didn’t look both ways, and I got hit by a mail truck.”
The accident was reported in The Gazette on March 14, 1971, about two weeks after the incident. His father took an assistant’s job at Michigan after the 1973 season.
Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh was hit by a car on his first day in Iowa City in 1971. The Gazette reported it in this March 14, 1971 edition under “Hutch and Peacocks?”
“I loved growing up in Iowa City.” Harbaugh said. “I loved my teachers at St. Patrick’s. Sister Agnes, my third-grade teacher, my favorite teacher, along with Mrs. Hiller. She was really good, too, my fifth-grade teacher in Ann Arbor. I had wonderful memories of Iowa City.”
Fast forward to 1985 when Harbaugh quarterbacked the No. 2-ranked and unbeaten Michigan Wolverines into Kinnick Stadium for a battle with top-ranked Iowa. In perhaps the most high-profile game in the stadium’s 87-year history, the Hawkeyes beat Harbaugh’s Wolverines 12-10 on a last-second Rob Houghtlin field goal. The Hawkeyes won the Big Ten title outright that year, while Michigan finished one-half game behind Iowa.
“That particular game was 1 vs. 2, highly competitive,” Harbaugh recalled from Big Ten Media Days on Monday. “It was a game that we came up on short, but it was a heck of a football game. A very healthy game. That’s what I remember of it. Great competition.”
Harbaugh's an IC homeboy. Dantonio needs to go to the SEC where he'd fit in with the other ex MSU coach at Alabama.
“I broke my leg in Iowa City, the first day we moved to Iowa City,” Harbaugh said. “I was (7) years old chasing my brother after the first day of school and across the street and didn’t look both ways, and I got hit by a mail truck.”
The accident was reported in The Gazette on March 14, 1971, about two weeks after the incident. His father took an assistant’s job at Michigan after the 1973 season.
Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh was hit by a car on his first day in Iowa City in 1971. The Gazette reported it in this March 14, 1971 edition under “Hutch and Peacocks?”
“I loved growing up in Iowa City.” Harbaugh said. “I loved my teachers at St. Patrick’s. Sister Agnes, my third-grade teacher, my favorite teacher, along with Mrs. Hiller. She was really good, too, my fifth-grade teacher in Ann Arbor. I had wonderful memories of Iowa City.”
Fast forward to 1985 when Harbaugh quarterbacked the No. 2-ranked and unbeaten Michigan Wolverines into Kinnick Stadium for a battle with top-ranked Iowa. In perhaps the most high-profile game in the stadium’s 87-year history, the Hawkeyes beat Harbaugh’s Wolverines 12-10 on a last-second Rob Houghtlin field goal. The Hawkeyes won the Big Ten title outright that year, while Michigan finished one-half game behind Iowa.
“That particular game was 1 vs. 2, highly competitive,” Harbaugh recalled from Big Ten Media Days on Monday. “It was a game that we came up on short, but it was a heck of a football game. A very healthy game. That’s what I remember of it. Great competition.”
Harbaugh's an IC homeboy. Dantonio needs to go to the SEC where he'd fit in with the other ex MSU coach at Alabama.
Quit trying to deflect...how about focusing on your 94 yards of offense. Sparty gained more yards on the pregame walk.
Do you really want to get into this? Do you really want me to air out your boy’s dirty laundry? There’s a shitload of it and you know it. Go away.
