Coach Weis on the flag planting incident and motivation

[Irish Envy]

Q. You alluded after the game on Saturday the flag incident.

COACH WEIS: I did not allude to it. You inferred. I did not allude to it.

Q. I wasn't alone.

COACH WEIS: That's your prerogative.

Q. Are you planning on using that this week as motivation? Do you have to?

COACH WEIS: Here is what I think we have to do. I think we have to put the flag incident and Michigan behind us because if we sit there, and when you use something like the flag incident, try to use that as your motivation for the game, that lasts for about five minutes once the game starts. Once you start hitting each other in the mouth a few times in the game, that stuff is over with.

I mean, you can use all sorts of quotes and things on the board, everything, you to get you through the week. The bottom line is we need to play better. We need to play better than we did last week or we'll lose again this week. We're playing against a team who is 3?0, pretty good, riding high. Just had an excellent performance against Pittsburgh. Really hasn't been tested to this point. They're playing at home. Saturday night at their place, raucous crowd. I mean, they have confidence in beating us. They've beaten us seven out of the last nine. If I were them, I'd feel pretty confident.

Source: UND.com

 

[KMac151993]

I absolutly hate going up to East Lansing at night....I dunno something about that place and the 1998 game still hang over me.

 

[TonyTiger]

I absolutly hate going up to East Lansing at night....I dunno something about that place and the 1998 game still hang over me.

Not that it really matters...and this is a worthless stat. But, MSU has only lost one night game in the history of Spartan Stadium.

 

[Irish Envy]

Not that it really matters...and this is a worthless stat. But, MSU has only lost one night game in the history of Spartan Stadium.

But that was to us, right? We beat MSU in 2004 31-24 at Spartan Stadium and that game kicked off at like 7:00pm. That game featured the birth of Drew Stanton if I remember correctly.

 

[TonyTiger]

But that was to us, right? We beat MSU in 2004 31-24 at Spartan Stadium and that game kicked off at like 7:00pm. That game featured the birth of Drew Stanton if I remember correctly.

Yeah, it was. So like I said, that is a pretty worthless stat. And FYI Drew Stanton didnt emerge until later in the season.

 

[Irish Envy]

Well all I remember is he came in for Reeves/Reaves (spelling) and lit a fire under the MSU team's ass. It went from being like 28-7 to being a game in a matter of minutes. Well that and the 89 yard return by Cobb.

 

[adam0033]

IIRC that was the game where Zbikowski stole the football from a MSU player and took it back for a TD. I think his first TD of his career.

 

[jiggafini19]

Whatever the over is on this game, I'm betting it. Just like last season.

 

[LuckoftheIrish86]

when is the kick off for this game?

 

[tommy]

msu is lucky they didnt do this in miami people have been shot for less then this in coral gables stay classy nd

 

[GREENJERSEYS'07]

nothing to add,but i bet no one steps on louisville's bird for awhile

 

[Óglaigh_na_hÉireann]

Has John L Smith been asked about this yet in the pre-game interviews?

 

[lattedatte]

I'm sure weis is saying something different to the boys, IMO..

 

[lattedatte]

"It's something that makes a lot of people upset, to say the least, with the fact that's how they deal with a win like that," Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn said after the game.

Asked following the loss to Michigan if the Spartans' celebration last year was still on his team's mind, Quinn replied: "I guess I'd be lying if I told you no."