Comments on: Michigan State Football 2012 End of Year Report: Part Four http://spartannation.com/2013/02/26/michigan-state-football-2012-end-of-year-report-part-four/ Your Home for Michigan State, Big Ten & Detroit Pro Sports News Thu, 23 May 2013 01:35:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Pete http://spartannation.com/2013/02/26/michigan-state-football-2012-end-of-year-report-part-four/comment-page-1/#comment-79459 Pete Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:47:00 +0000 http://spartannation.com/?p=28201#comment-79459 I was going to write that there was some good in this last of the four articles. It's a good thing to defend an athlete's right to a scholarship even if he never becomes the player recruiters thought he would be. But there is a limit to this "charity" that needs to be understood. A player has a right to a scholarship so long as he helps the team and is reasonably competent on the field. If he can't do either, he needs to get off the team. I saw Conway deliberately avoid contact with Gholston on a play in the 2012 spring game and Gholston consequently destroyed the running back and could have easily seriously injured him. If a player's medical issues or mental issues prevent him from making a proper effort to play his position, he needs to have the good sense to let go of his football dream. As I write this I was informed that Hollis and Dantonio hired a good old boy former OSU coach as the OC. If this kind of thinking is what Hondo is defending, I take it all back. Dantonio is living in the past. He needs to "fade away" from MSU football before he pulls the program down for another decade of irelevance. I was going to write that there was some good in this last of the four articles. It’s a good thing to defend an athlete’s right to a scholarship even if he never becomes the player recruiters thought he would be. But there is a limit to this “charity” that needs to be understood. A player has a right to a scholarship so long as he helps the team and is reasonably competent on the field. If he can’t do either, he needs to get off the team. I saw Conway deliberately avoid contact with Gholston on a play in the 2012 spring game and Gholston consequently destroyed the running back and could have easily seriously injured him. If a player’s medical issues or mental issues prevent him from making a proper effort to play his position, he needs to have the good sense to let go of his football dream.

As I write this I was informed that Hollis and Dantonio hired a good old boy former OSU coach as the OC. If this kind of thinking is what Hondo is defending, I take it all back. Dantonio is living in the past. He needs to “fade away” from MSU football before he pulls the program down for another decade of irelevance.

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