[GOLIONS1180]

will we choke again and go 5-7 and no bowl or are we actually going to be good and do what the talent on this team can do.

Starters

QB Drew Stanton*
RB Javon Ringer*
WR Matt Trannon*
WR Jerramy Scott*
WR Terry Love
TE Kellen Davis*
LT Mike Gyetvai*
LG Kyle Cook*
C John Masters
RG Roland Martin
RT Jesse Miller

Offensively, it's going to be scary. We have a good group of receivers, and that's all you need in the spread offense. And Javon Ringer is one of the most underrated backs in college football. If he went to UM they would be hyping him as the next Reggie Bush. He is a stud. The only real question is the right side of the line, Roland Martin was a highly rated recruit, so I expect him to be fine. Dont know about Jesse Miller. All this without even mentioning one of the top 3-5 QBs in college football, Drew Stanton.

DE Brandon Long
DT David Stanton
DT Clifton Ryan*
DE Justin Kershaw
OLB David Herron*
MLB Kaleb Thornhill*
BANDIT Sir Darean Adams*
CB Greg Cooper*
CB Demond Williams
FS Otis Wiley
SS Nehemiah Warrick

The D-line scares me at the ends, but I like the DTs with Clifton Ryan and David Stanton. The LBs are easily the strong point for the defense, they are a very good group. The secondary scares me pretty much everywhere, but they have potential. Greg Cooper is moving from safety to corner so odds are he will suck. Demond Williams showed flashes last year but sucked sometimes as well. As usual, don't what to expect at CB. The safeties however I like. Otis Wiley is a good young player and IMO will do a nice job in the secondary. Easily the best player in the secondary though is SS Nehemiah Warrick. From what I have heard everywhere he played great in Spring and will be expected to do a lot in the secondary.

[Pride of Detroit]

i honestly dont see a choke this yea

We were flying high, ripping up an a very very good OSU Defense, and bam there goes our season with that play.

No way Stanton falls off the map like he did after the first 5-6 games, our offfense is going to be amazing again.

Ringer is a stud, but we still hvae caulcrick and the redshirt freshamn who also impressed in spring practices. Our WR and RB core is so deep.

And everything from spring scrimmages have sounded good defensively that i recall. Our secondary shouldnt be as bad as it was last year.

[GOLIONS1180]

The schedule

1.Idaho-W
No explanation necessary.

2.Eastern Michigan-W
See above

3.at Pitt-W
Spartans get huge road victory.

4.ND-L
Expect a score something like 45-34?

5.Illinois-W
Big Ten home opener *** kicking really gets the MSU fans excited.

6.at Michigan-W
I cant see us losing to these guys again. I dont think Stanton goes out a loser to UM.

7.Ohio State-L
MSU fans are really hyped for this one, hey maybe even college gameday comes. But OSU is just too much for the Spartans.

8.at Northwestern-W
Spartans try to show there will be no post Michigan letdown this year, and knock off Northwestern.

9.at Indiana-W
See above

10.Purdue-W
Spartans come home and get a good win against the Boilermakers.

11.Minnesota-W
Spartans keep things rolling.

12.at Penn State-L
We just never win in Happy Valley

Final record-9-3

[Pride of Detroit]

the thing is tho, the OSU game AND the ND game are at home...

we have 1 hard road game, and thats UofM

OSU got worse, ND will prolly be the same

I think we have a chance at both those games, not necesarrily winning, but I think we will be in both till the end.

We got good senior leadership too with stanton, cook, trannon,etc

[GOLIONS1180]

How are we going to stop NDs offense though?

We may be able to contain Darious Walker as our front 7 isnt all that bad and has the potential to be very good, but Quinn and Samarjzdia(sp) are probably going to eat us up.

Ohio State is definately a game we can win, but Ted Ginn owns us, and there D is still pretty solid.

[Pride of Detroit]

how did we defend ND's offense last season?

ND did lose Stovall and there top2 TE's i believe

[GOLIONS1180]

I think it's a winnable game but look at our CBs.

Samardzija, and even Rhema Mcknight is solid.

It's winnable, but things our getting desperate when you move a safety to CB.

[GOLIONS1180]

And usually, stud players get better with each year. Even ****ty players get better.

[Pride of Detroit]

im not makin the case were defintlye gonna win... im just sayin, we have just as good of chance going in as we did last year

[dbo78912]

I see you guys finishing 3rd, maybe even 2nd this year. Great team, just need to get it together.