Dan Kilbridge said it well Wednesday night in the final minute of Penn State’s upset of Michigan.
“This won’t make Tom Izzo happy.”
Nope. Beyond the initial and perhaps natural twinge of excitement in seeing the Wolverines suffer, there was probably no joy for Michigan State’s coach in watching the U-M tumble in Happy Valley.
Previously winless in the Big Ten, the Nittany Lions upset fourth-ranked Michigan, 84-78.
And the surprising outcome made at least one line inaccurate in this Saturday’s episode of “Spartan Fastbreak” (11 a.m. on WHTV My 18, hosted by Kilbridge of 247Sports).
Dan Kilbridge (left), of 247Sports, hosts Spartan Fastbreak Wednesday night at Reno’s West in Lansing, with guests Ray Weathers (center) and Graham Couch.
That’d be Kilbridge’s ad lib in segment three about Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin still being in the Big Ten race.
The problem is, the show is filmed on Wednesday nights at Reno’s West in Lansing, wrapping up about the time the Wolverines had a 12-point lead.
Michigan, it turned out, is all but out of the Big Ten title picture, having suffered its fifth league loss, slipping two games back of Indiana.
From MSU’s perspective — maybe Izzo’s too — there is usually a warm feeling that comes with U-M’s failures. But it doesn’t help this Sunday.
Michigan was already going to be lying in wait, fired up to avenge a 23-point loss on Feb. 12 in East Lansing.
Now the Wolverines will also be in a foul mood.
It’s possible MSU simply is a matchup nightmare for the Wolverines and none of this emotional hullabaloo will matter.
But Wednesday night’s result in State College, Pa., as it pertains to this Sunday, doesn’t aid MSU at all.
If anything helps the Spartans, it’s that they’ve been humbled themselves since their victory over the Wolverines, with tough defeats to Indiana and Ohio State.
Neither team will be having any issues with inflated egos on Sunday.
For the loser, on either side, it’ll feel like the wheels are coming off. Even if they aren’t.
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WeON wears his Fab Five Final Four wound like a crown
He calls his child Brandon
‘Cause he likes the name
And he sends him to the finest school in town
WEON, WEON likes his money
He makes a lot they say
Spend his days counting
In the BTN studio converted warehouse by the Dan Ryan motorway
He was born a pauper to a pawn on a 600 thousand dollar signing day
When the Dept of Justice said Ed Martin is dead
And the recruiting war’s begun
Big Dog has a son playing for SCUM today
And he shall be WEON
And he shall be a good market for Walmart fans
And ESPN shall be promoting WEON
In tradition with the merchandise branding plan
And he shall be WEON
And he shall be a big seller with Walmart Fans
Walmart shall sell WEON
Brandon sells cartoon balloons in Free Press town
His family business thrives
Drew Sharp throws up the tide has turned trial balloons all day
Sits on the porch swing watching them fly
And Drew Sharp, he wants to go to Bristol Conn.
Leaving Weon far behind
Take off trial balloon and go sailing
While Weon Weon slowly dies
And he shall be WEON
And he shall be a good market for Walmart fans
And ESPN shall be promoting WEON
In tradition with the merchandise branding plan
And he shall be WEON
And he shall be a big seller with Walmart Fans
Walmart shall sell WEON
Can’t believe Cheese-it took down a post of mine. Guy is such a loser that he can’t take critisim
What did he take down?
Have to disagree with you on that one Chief
“So you want to come to Ann Arbor and act like a big shot without actually doing …
You”ll fit right in” REQUIEM FOR WEON
Trey Burke, Tim Hardaway Jr, Glenn Robinson III. Nick Stauskus, Jordan Morgan,
There is little debate in the college basketball world that those five players, who wore the WEON jersey for the Michigan Wolverines in late January of 2013 represent the greatest 72 hour National Championship team ever recruited.
Perhaps the most misunderstood, too.
Eventually known worldwide as the “Fab 72 hours,” each member of the quintet was rated in the top 100 of ESPN sound bites in those 72 hours.
In their heyday, the Fab 72 hours were widely portrayed as the root of all evil in college sports. They wore WEON shirts and mugged for the cameras..They blasted hip-hop music in the locker room. They talked trash. A lot.
Wal-Mart customers of all races and demographics spent hundreds of dollars on WEON jerseys, shorts and the like, trying to capture a tiny slice of the group’s mystique. By the end of their 72 hours together, the Fab 72 hours were routinely overexposed in the national media for the way they carried themselves. Articles and television reports painted them as successors to the legacy of Jalan Rose or worse — as Dick Vitale media plugs..
Now, 30 days later, Burke, Hardaway, Robinson and Referee Ted Valentine have come together in ESPN’s “Fab 72 hours” documentary to tell the inside story of the arrogant class that was feted by Mark Silverman’s Big Ten Network .as rock stars. Notably absent is Marky Mark, the No. 1 troll from the Spartan Shadows blog, who isn’t yet willing to discuss two sticky subjects: the Breslin St Valentine’s day massacre, which led to legal problems for the BTN and the removal of the WEON banners from Wal-Mart, and the infamous matador defense at the end of last nights’s Penn State game.
The documentary, however, isn’t afraid to tackle those subjects as well as the formation, rise, scandal and epilogue of the team. Mark Silverman is the executive producer of the film
I don’t believe in all that. So it would have been better for scUM to win so they would have momentum going into Sunday’s game? The overrated weasels already have the MSU beatdown in their heads, once MSU gets a lead Sunday, the weasels will fold, regardless what happened Wednesday night. The more losses for scUM, the better.
I agree… last night only served as validation for MSU that they exposed scUM, essentially creating the blueprint on how to beat them (specifically, tight perimeter defense and frustrate Burke).
I’m channeling 1986, when the Scott Skiles led Spartans routed the higher rated, but soft, Wolverines twice. Another beat down is coming! Bottom line: we’re better.
The legendary “Bring it on Fat Boy” quote from Skiles comes to mind.
Absolutely!