MISS STATE
Video: Miss. St. offensive lineman drives opponent's ankle into ground
For the second consecutive season, it appears a Mississippi State offensive lineman may have to answer for post-snap extra curricular activity.
Late in the first half of Saturday’s game against Southern Miss, one of the Bulldogs’ lead blockers up front appears to push the ankle of a defender into the turf.
Last season, Mississippi State center Dillon Day was suspended one game for stomping on LSU defenders.
What is Dan Mullen teaching his players? #dirty #failstate pic.twitter.com/R4NkqiisZi
— Drew Williams (@werdisdrew) September 6, 2015
Nothing to see here just playing through the whistle haha
Classless.
Such story-mongering
For a classless play. If he is not suspended for at least a half, MSU deserves the same to happen to Dak.
That is classless wishing for a player to be hurt. This is a video that is less than two seconds long. And while you are seeing it from the angle of the camera, you are not seeing it from the eyes of the accused, who by the way is wearing a helmet and in a pile up with a player’s ass in his line of vision. Also, in realtime and pace of play following over in a pile up, you put your hand down wherever you can. If this video were a few seconds longer than I could say yay or nay to this being dirty. But this is inconclusive. So while you are throwing out accusations these are some things you might want to consider. And auburn fans wanting to talk about dirty players is laughable Nick Fairley comes to mind. OM fans I’d like to remind you of players throwing punches in games last season, and another player kicking at Kenyan drake’s head when he broke his foot.
Really. I am glad you see it. This isn’t news at all. “Mississippi State plays dirty” is like saying “water is wet.”
That may be so but there is nothing in this video that indicates dirty play…they’re not in a tea cup race out there!
i agree. these people complaining about dirty play obviously never played and if they did they didn’t play defense. i poked people in the eye, bit fingers, hit people in the nuts, twisted arms legs etc. but…i never spit on anybody. people used to spit right in my face. hated it. right on top of you in a pile. and just out of nowhere bam spit right in my face and then they say something to you. basically, if you aint playing dirty, you aint trying hard enough.
Really? This is pretty clear. Playing hard and playing dirty are two different things. Besides, if you are going to try and hurt someone you have to be more subtle than this!
On my iPhone I get a pop up add on half of the articles for Sling. There isn’t a button to close the add so I can’t see the article. Is anyone else having this problem? If so, please post the problem you are having. If enough people complain they will fix it.
No they won’t. I’ve been complaining for a week. The Sling ads are set so they click through hen you simply scroll on mobile. Sad.
At least they finally got rid of the” my mother in law made $2000 lazy month selling popsicles to Eskimos on her computer” trolls from last year. Yeah, the sling ad is a pain, thus far I have only experienced the” it opens if you touch it while scrolling” problem.
It is about making money. If it opens for you, hey that’s money for them. But they do need the money.
What are we supposed to be seeing here? Has the “poster” not captured the video intended?
You are obviously an Ole Miss fan who’s seeing a twist, grab and driving of the ankle in the ground, correct? Might it just be someone who’s trying to keep a player down like all lineman are taught to do?
I think their coach is teaching them good fundamentals as is ours but we might have not drawn quite as much “ire” as we’ll receive from a 76-3 score….I know, I know…we’re just that good, right?!? Waterboy in the game, etc., etc.,
I’m disappointed but never let us say someone ran it up on us in the near future. Hopefully, they want be able to!
Quit defending your dirty football team.
Are you kidding? What I see is a frickin kid with an anger issue pulling the wings off a fly when no one is looking. If that kid’s ankle had popped, he’d be out of action for some of the season, on a cream puff game on a dead ball. And for what?
2013 they stomped an Auburn player who was down, 2014 they did it to LSU and since it was the same guy he got suspended. Now here we are barely a week in and they’re already taking cheap shots on downed players. How can you possibly defend this?
No coincidence that this two years in a row. Mullen is a great teacher at Cowbell U! Bath scum!
Pot meet kettle!
Really?
Show me the video of LSU players intentionally trying to injure players who are down on the ground, vulnerable, and unable to defend themselves?
Three years in a row.. Dillon Day got suspended in 2014 because it was the 2nd time in two years he’d been caught stomping downed players after he got caught stomping an Auburn player in 2013.
Teams take on the personalities and values of their coaches. No coincidence that this happened last year against LSU and again this year against USM……..
As a State fan, it looks bad. There just isn’t enough video of it to know for certain if he’s doing something dirty. Also there are no other reported incidents from this game. I just think a lot of people think “Hurr Durr Dillon Day they all are scummy Mississippi rednecks”. I personally have a hard time believing that he had the presence of mind to push down and try to twist a guys ankle ONCE all game while it APPEARS that he has his legs being landed on and he is just trying to stabilize himself.
Let’s use Occam’s razor for this exercise. What is a simpler explanation? A MSU player getting stuck in a pile and just using a prop to get himself up (ask yourself, would you instinctively reach for a prop or prop yourself on the ground after falling to the ground? I usually get up with a prop if it’s available and it’s one of those things I don’t think about.) OR is Dan Mullen running a program designed to injure and harm other players at the most random times in game, especially against a team MSU is beating and hurting players that aren’t really hurting MSU just for the lolz?
People want to build a reputation based on Dillon Day. Dillon Day played dirty, no doubt. But remember, once is an accident, twice is a coincedence, and three times is a trend. One player =/= trend. If there was a trend of MSU doing this, I’d definitely assume maliciousness; however, there isn’t, so I don’t.
Third time is a trend. 2013 vs Auburn, Dillon Day stomped a downed lineman and received a suspension. 2014 same thing vs LSU and now we have 3 years in a row which is a definite trend. Stop defending this and fix it.
Again that’s all one player. Everyone is judging this in the frame of what one bad egg did.
You people really need to review Occam’s razor and weigh the options out before deciding MSU intentionally targets weaker players on lesser teams in meaningless games at meaningless times. Really. Come on now. Stop thinking there is something there that isn’t.
How about it happens again State forfeits.. if its not a problem you should be good with that
Just ejecting and suspending the player would be the fairest way to go about it. It’s not something that is forfeit-worthy “cheating”, but it is something that should be discouraged. First time, one game. Second time, the entire season (including the playoffs). Three strikes, you’re gone from NCAA period.
So the first time State ends someone’s season/career they should get a 1 game suspension? Seems fair. It’s the part where this is the third video in three years featuring two different OL guys that’s the unsettling pattern. The next one, they’ll be calling for Dan Mullen’s head. State is completely out of the protection of questionable doubt. If one more single player is caught giving someone the business under the pile, it’s coming from the sidelines. There’s nothing a state fan can say to disagree with it at that point and the media will crucify Dan Mullen. Meanwhile, two SEC teams have motive to seek revenge taking cheap shots and that’s creating a dangerous environment for your players. This isn’t to be taken lightly. It’s serious and it’s unacceptable. Plus, if this was a rival team who’d taken a shot at MSU already, you’d be the loudest person here calling for heads.
If he ends someone career obviously he needs to go. But has anyone of the players been hurt from this?
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No. Okay. So then the suspension plan works. If you take away someone’s season / career, then by all means it should be an eye for an eye.
Deacon, I’m sorry buy you need to put your pitchfork down. This happens all the time and if you look for it you’ll find it on video for every team out there. Many times it is incidental and unintentional, sometimes not, but the pitchfork “defenseless” attitude is just silly. Croom and Mullen have turned state into a class program. There is absolutely no proof that anything is out of control, much less under direction of coaching. Dillon was an isolated player. This video is nothing… a second showing nothing before or after from which to draw any conclusions about line if sight, balance, intent, etc. Why not ask that defensive end if he even gave it a second thought when he got up. Bet he didn’t.
This is just hate mongering from a classless Ole miss fan and a classless website for running with it. The same Ole miss that was throwing punches last year, upended Dak well after the whistle was blown, etc. Glass ceilings and all that come to mind.
I agree. It could be taken either way from that short clip but there is no reason not to believe he was simply trying to get up except for the bad rap Dillon Day has given MSU.
I agree. Nothing to see here, move along.
That’s all I’m saying. If it was multiple players that did this before, I’d definitely believe there is a wave of evil maliciousness about MSU. It’s just one bad egg before and we aren’t for certain. It’s a lot simpler to believe that this was an accident rather than to trump up some conspiracy where MSU hurts irrelevant players on irrelevant teams at irrelevant times. If this was LSU and Leonard Fournette that this happened to, then we’ve got a whole other story.
Like I said—story-mongering. The whole clip shows it was very brief and unintentional. I do submission wrestling/bjj so hearing people complaining over this (when nobody was hurt nor gameplay affected) is culturally different.
Complete lack of class. Does Mullen bother to instruct his players that everything they do reflects on their team and the institution that the team represents?
That’s not playing rough or hard. That’s intentionally trying to injure an opponent. If that punk is that fearful of a Southern Miss player he’s about to be in big trouble with SEC D linemen.
Well he’s not trying to hurt him when you watch the whole video. Most of the “MSU playing dirty” is a media thing and not really true.
You’ve got to be joking. “Prop himself up?” Really? It’s three inches from the ground and he’s looking right at the guy’s leg. It’s obvious that he was trying to get a shot in a defenseless player.
Let’s see how you feel when one of LSU’s D-linemen do the same thing to Dak next Saturday. They owe you one, too.
Happens all the time in every game. This just got caught on tape. I love how everyone’s got their pitchforks out talking about how “classless” MSU is as a program and Mullen is as a coach. It’s really quite funny to an outside observer. Every single one of our teams in the SEC (and outside of it) have coaches and players how are slimy win-at-all-costs types. This really is the pot calling the kettle black. Oh and that video is literally 2 seconds long… I’m going to need more than that to condemn a person (don’t care about past transgressions of other players… means nothing here).
EXACTLY! Yes I am a fan. . Yes I believe Dillon Day went over the top but anyone that thinks this two second clip means anything is just a biased idiot. . As a therapist there is no threat of injury with the force applied even IF there were intention (which is difficult as hell to prove). Pinching, twisting, biting, punching, spitting happens EVERY game with EVERY team . . If you don’t know that you’ ve never played the game especially not in the trenches!
*slow clap
Man y’all don’t even try and hide your bias at SDS anymore. This video is ambiguous at best and you label it “dirty” in the title. I’m glad to see the strange hate for MSU that started last year has still not abated.
Dirty mofos out there in massassippa. Goes for those “rebels” too. You all are a blight on the nation.
You’re an idiot.
Womp womp.
Pretty typical of SDS and their Ole Miss homies. Not much to see here, but I guess in this society where every little thing is blown out of proportion on social media then it shouldn’t be a surprise.
Typical state fan always thinking there is some conspiracy against them that is launched by Ole Miss! Geez, seriously man lose the little brother syndrome. We don’t think about y’all 24/7 365. One week out of the season is it. MooU is no where near that important to us. There has been a recent history over the past couple of years of Busch League antics by one of your players that has given your school that reputation. Maybe if Mullet would have sat that sociopath for more than 1 game he could have distanced your program from said reputation!
Ole Miss fans where the ones watching this game, making this video, and calling out MSU. You’re the one with the “little brother syndrome” here.