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While America Watched Michigan Get Demolished By Alabama, Michigan State’s Players Tweeted Gleefully About It

by Dan Fogarty | 12:45 pm, September 4th, 2012

Heading into Saturday night’s matchup with the now top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide, the Wolverines of Michigan were riding high. A preseason top-10 ranking, talks of a Big Ten title, and a Heisman hopeful quarterback in Denard Robinson meant that anyone in maize and blue was pumped for the 2012 season. Of course, by the end of Michigan’s 41-14 blowout loss to ‘Bama, you were in a depressed mood if you’d gone to the bar in a Denard jersey.

Michigan State, on the other hand, was the opposite of depressed. They were downright giddy, in fact.

A few of the Spartans’ football players, who were watching Saturday night’s game right alongside the rest of the country, delighted in Robinson’s troubles. While Denard was being bullied by the Alabama D for just 226 total yards, a few of MSU’s players were busy on Twitter.

The tweets have since been deleted, but Mlive.com grabbed a few before they were taken down.

“Is this guy really a QB I’ll say my mans (walk-on Tommy Vento) is a better QB lol,” linebacker Denicos Allen tweeted. “S/O to my boy vento by the way.”

“DENARD IS SOOOO BAD!” safety Kyle Artinian tweeted. “And it makes me feel so good.”

“I can play quarterback for the school in blue,” linebacker Jamal Lyles tweeted. “(Le’Veon Bell) for heisman > the other guy in the great state of michigan.”

Not even Robinson’s 71-yard completion to Jeremy Gallon was enough to impress one Spartan.

“Even a blind squirrel can get a nut ever once in a while…,” running back Nick Hill tweeted after the play.

Michigan (and their fanbase) has a few weeks to stew on these 140-character bits of bulletin board material: the Spartans roll into Ann Arbor on October 20th.

[Mlive, h/t Dr. Saturday]

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FThats true. about the bulletin board material, but at this point in the season you can probably expect UM to be more concerned with just getting better. Let’s not forget the positives that came from MSU being humiliated in almost identical fashion by Alabama. in 2010. It gave that group a vivid picture of what a great team is and just how far they had to go to be one. I sincerely hope that NONE Of them have forgotten that lesson. Team leaders need to correct this BS and drive home the concept of staying humble and hungry. Possibly even silent if they are unable to avoid comments that are detrimental to the Spartans pursuit of respect as a program.