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Lansing State Journal: MSU still passes 'eye test' but 2012 is reason for examination
Written by Graham Couch
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Denicos Allen is still annoyed by Michigan State’s football season. And he can’t hide it.
Not even on an otherwise relaxed morning against the backdrop of a desert mountain.
“It’s a terrible feeling,” MSU’s junior linebacker said this week from the JW Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Ariz. “Because we could be somewhere (at a) BCS (game) right now, if we would have put all the effort we could have into each game. It’s just a sour feeling that nobody ever wants as a program.”
This, two days before playing in a bowl game. Albeit the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl in nearby Tempe.
The state of the Spartans these days could be described as polite but moody. It’s understandable. This was supposed to be a Rose Bowl season or a BCS bowl season — and all the reminders that the Fiesta Bowl is played here next week probably don’t help. ...
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20121229/COLUMNISTS15/312290016/Graham-Couch-MSU-still-passes-eye-test-2012-reason-examination?nclick_check=1
Written by Graham Couch
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Denicos Allen is still annoyed by Michigan State’s football season. And he can’t hide it.
Not even on an otherwise relaxed morning against the backdrop of a desert mountain.
“It’s a terrible feeling,” MSU’s junior linebacker said this week from the JW Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Ariz. “Because we could be somewhere (at a) BCS (game) right now, if we would have put all the effort we could have into each game. It’s just a sour feeling that nobody ever wants as a program.”
This, two days before playing in a bowl game. Albeit the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl in nearby Tempe.
The state of the Spartans these days could be described as polite but moody. It’s understandable. This was supposed to be a Rose Bowl season or a BCS bowl season — and all the reminders that the Fiesta Bowl is played here next week probably don’t help. ...
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20121229/COLUMNISTS15/312290016/Graham-Couch-MSU-still-passes-eye-test-2012-reason-examination?nclick_check=1
