{"id":6265,"date":"2023-08-30T19:19:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T23:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2023-08-30T19:19:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T23:19:27","slug":"michigan-state-football-cmu-shadows-bulletin-board-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=6265","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State football: CMU using Spartan Shadows as bulletin-board material (Photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Week 1 Michigan State football opponent CMU is using a Spartan Shadows article as bulletin-board material for Friday night.<\/h2>\n<p>There&#8217;s an unwritten rule in college athletics: never give an opponent bulletin-board material. Oftentimes, it just happens because of a slip of the tongue or an accident. Other times, it just happens because of over-confidence. Rarely does it happen because a fan-run sports blog wrote something about that opposing team.<\/p>\n<p>Central Michigan didn&#8217;t get that memo, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>Our own Michigan State football (and other sports) fan-run blog is apparently being used as motivation for Central Michigan on Friday night. A picture leaked on Twitter of Central&#8217;s scoreboard which had a quote on it from an article on Spartan Shadows. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-football-ranking-opponents-toughness-2023\/\">an article ranking the opponents on Michigan State&#8217;s 2023 schedule<\/a> from easiest to toughest.<\/p>\n<p>The second-easiest was Central Michigan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CMU using <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Spartan_Shadows?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Spartan_Shadows<\/a> as motivation for Friday. Care to comment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMUBarstool?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CMUBarstool<\/a>? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5KWprWd69S\">pic.twitter.com\/5KWprWd69S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ChopCat \ud83c\udf54\ud83d\udc08\u200d\u2b1b (@chopmanMSU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chopmanMSU\/status\/1697021655485227279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you, this thought immediately jumped into my brain: &#8220;If we lose, this is all our fault.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OK, that&#8217;s ridiculous to think, but it wasn&#8217;t ideal to see that Central was using one of our articles by Daily MSU as motivation to beat Michigan State on Friday. That just didn&#8217;t sit too well with me.<\/p>\n<p>But thinking more about it, the Chippewas are asking us to call them a tougher opponent than a Big Ten foe. It may end up being true in the end, but right now, outside of Northwestern and\u00a0<em>maybe<\/em> Indiana, I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re better than any Big Ten teams. Again, I could be wrong, but this isn&#8217;t a crazy statement.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s cool to see that an FBS program has something we wrote here on their minds, but I&#8217;m just hoping this doesn&#8217;t backfire on Friday night when Central comes to town.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably be rooting harder than anyone for a Michigan State football win because, well, if the Spartans lose, I may never live this one down. Just the nature of the business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59,191,189],"class_list":["post-6265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}