No... it's Captain Kirk - not Brian!

Lake The Posts is still smoking the pipe.... "It's still unclear if MSU QB Keith Nichol will play as he's listed as day-to-day. His back-up is a split-time starter, Brian Cousins."

No, LTP, it is Kirk, Captain Kirk Cousins -- he is one of the Spartans' four captains, and he has excelled all year. He is the full-time starter, but sat out last game to rest an ankle sprain so he can KICK YER WILDCAT ARSE this week.

As for all yer hype and surprise on 13 1/2 point underdogs (it started out at 12 point 'dogs on Sunday), STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE, baby... you lost to SYRACUSE, lost to a Minny team that was crushed at home by an iffy Cal team, defeated hapless Purdue, winless Miami. And, you squeaked by an EMU team that lost by 48 to CMU (who MSU lost on the last play of the game).

It's not just Ws vs Ls. It's who you played. It's easy to beat up on the Sisters of the Poor.

Lake the Posts - N'western, huh?

Our friends over at Lake the Posts give some insight into the 'Cats play, and they certainly see the glass as half full... the ES critiques LTP's commentary, just roughly. Nwestern is looking at the last two games as a season-saver, with predictible predictions of grandeur. Ummmm - the 'Cats registered gritty wins over, well, Purdue and Miami-Ohio? After a loss to Syracuse? Sorry, you should look like World Beaters after that schedule ("special teams has done a 180 the last two games" and "our D line has gone from atrocious to respectable the past two games".) Wait 'til we smack you upside the head. Over the same period, the Sparties played... Wisky, scUM, and Illinois. No, Sparty ain't hurtin'. We're hurtin' to hurt YOU, 'Cats. There won't be no 2007 repeat, we're a 12-pt fave 'cause we're gonna stomp on yer 'TROAT. Yes, who you play DOES matter.