It’s clear at this point that Alabama was the better team and had the better match-up in a 41-14 win over Michigan Saturday night. Even Michigan knows how bad it was.
That certainly didn’t stop a handful of Michigan State players from piling on their in-state rival, though (adding insult to injury was the loss of cornerback Blake Countess for the season).
Mlive.com pulled together a few tweets from Spartan players taking direct shots at Denard Robinson, who had a tough night against a salty Alabama defense. Some of the tweets have already been taken down.“Is this guy really a QB I’ll say my mans (walk-on Tommy Vento) is a better QB lol,” linebacker Denicos Allen tweeted. “S/O to my boy vento by the way.”
“DENARD IS SOOOO BAD!” safety Kyle Artinian tweeted. “And it makes me feel so good.”
“I can play quarterback for the school in blue,” linebacker Jamal Lyles tweeted. "(Le’Veon Bell) for heisman > the other guy in the great state of michigan.”
Not even Robinson’s 71-yard completion to Jeremy Gallon was enough to impress one Spartan.
“Even a blind squirrel can get a nut ever once in a while...,” running back Nick Hill tweeted after the play.
The Spartans have earned the right to talk a little smack on Michigan seeing as they’ve won four in a row against the Wolverines and figured out their own way to slow Robinson. That said, there’s been a lot of talk over the past 24 hours about Robinson being overrated. Not sure that applies since D-Rob is what he is: a great running threat but a below-average passer. He’s been that way since 2010 and thinking he was anything else is just wrong.
Furthermore, there aren’t many teams that come to mind that would have would have stayed competitive with the Tide that night, let alone beat them. In fact, if memory serves correctly, the 2011 Capital One Bowl between Alabama and Michigan State was so ugly -- the Tide won 49-7 -- that Sparty’s sideline doubled as an infirmary.