Quick Thoughts on the Bye

Well it was the bye week, which means we did not get any real substantial progress on our Bowl bidding. But here are some quick thoughts anyway.

1.) Please send thank you gift baskets to the Northwestern Wildcats. Their address is: 240 Huron St, Chicago, IL, 60611. Their victory over Iowa assures with a Purdue win this weekend we can do no worse than the Citrus Bowl. I typed last week that after this season a trip to the Outback bowl would be disappointing and it would, the Citrus is, eh.

2.) We didn't get a lot of help from the teams in front of us in terms of the BCS, in fact there wasn't a team in front of us that lost. We could get some help with a few conference championship games, but the odds of us jumping back to the top 5 again are pretty slim.

3.) The basketball team looks really good. They seemed to be playing pretty sloppy on Friday and yet they won by 30. That's ridiculous, I really hope they can finish it out this year. What an absolute treasure to have Tom Izzo as our coach for life.

4.) Point 3 inspires point 4 and 5. I hope that Joe Pa hangs it up after this year. Mentally, he seems to be slipping a bit. (Although, I dare not say that to his face because at 800 years old he would still kick my ass.) I worry he is a man that would be dead in a month without his work. He is an absolute plus to the game, but man, quit before you're shown the door.

5.) I hope someday our football program is good enough to be taken for granted the way that our basketball team is. Not that I appreciate the fact we overlook the basketball team only insofaras that we expect such excellence out of the basketball team that we take top 10 status for granted. I think we may be to the point where we expect top 25 status in the next year or two.

All in all, a great time to be an MSU sports fan.