EAST LANSING Michigan State’s basketball team would be better off not playing Georgetown this Saturday in New York City, as circumstance would have it.
It’s a Super Bowl weekend showcase gone bad for the organizers, and the Spartans.
But it’s also an example of why student athlete experience must be rooted in the genesis of any special event. It creates merit, when all else is lost.
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However, it’s hard to fault an athletic director or coach for putting their players amid the buzz of Manhattan on this weekend, or giving them the opportunity to play at famed Madison Square Garden.
“I feel like we’re stuck between jordan 7 a rock and a hard place, because who wouldn’t want to play at Madison Square Garden?” said senior point guard Keith Appling, who played there with MSU as a freshman and sophomore. “But at the same time, at this point in the season, under our circumstances, we do aOlernKienOP jordan 7 LeBron James practices for NBA Finals in special neon green Nike A need a little rest. But Madison Square is a legendary place to play, so jordan 3 retro I wouldn’t want to miss out on the opportunity.”
As MSU AD Mark Hollis reiterated Thursday, he is, in part, in the business of creating memories for student athletes. None of his creative scheduling ventures, he said, have been “designed as a profit basis for the athletic department.”
The benefit to MSU from these event games is exposure, which bolsters the basketball program’s already lofty standing and, in total, over the long jordan retro 2 haul, can aid jordan 2 retro the bottom line wins and cash flow.
If MSU had been healthy it’ll be without Adriean Payne and Branden Dawson again and Georgetown something more this season than just a brand, this might have been fun afternoon of basketball, even if unnecessary and poorly timed.
The Spartans have achieved well beyond the need for this type of showcase. An emerging program like Iowa would find it more useful.
Nonleague games in early February are unnatural. They mess with the arc of a season and, unless a aOlernKienOP jordan retro 2 Nike ‘free speech’ challenged team is on the NCAA tournament bubble, they’re difficult to sell as relevant, both within and outside the program.
Aircraft carrier games, trips to Germany, Champions Classics and ACC/Big Ten Challenges are made for November and December, when manufactured interest equals relevancy. Once league play begins, you aOlernKienOP jordan 7 Water Parks in Texas can’t break from the teeth of the aOlernKienOP jordan 7 About Euro Shoe Sizing season and produce the same hype.
But at the core of college athletics ideally at least is the student athlete experience. Saving this weekend.
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MSU aOlernKienOP jordan retro 2 Secrets Of Good Pedicure ought to soak in the experience. See the Big Apple. Say aOlernKienOP jordan retro 10 Registration opens for Plant City swamp run in October hello to Kirk Cousins and Lady Gaga’s father, an MSU grad, sitting courtside. Enjoy playing at basketball’s mecca. But not at the expense of the experience of the rest of the Big Ten season or the NCAA tournament.
A sensible lineup: Travis Trice, Alvin Ellis, Denzel Valentine, Alex Gauna and Matt Costello, with Kenny Kaminski, Russell Byrd and Gavin Schilling off the bench.
A more realistic approach: Don’t play Keith Appling or Gary Harris a second over 30 minutes. The only true victory from this game comes from the absence of needless wear and tear on a backcourt the Spartans need from next week on out.
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