I'm not dead yet! Just alumni status now; naturally I'm getting slower.

We didn't face MSU this year during the football season, so I felt it was time to dust off the long forks and stab something. Sparty time.

Tell me your fantasies Dickie V...

• First Morrill Act school - Government granting land/funding/approval to state schools that will focus on AG, manufacturing; how Purdue was approved
• Largest Study Abroad program for a single campus University in the country - programs on all continents; yes even Antarctica
• 9th Largest US University
• MSU is the 6th name for the school, adopted in 1964. It was originally Agriculture College of the State of Michigan
• Michigan State has a campus in Dubai.
• They offer a degree in Packaging
• 2003 - Played Kentucky in the Basketbowl - most attended College Basketball game of all time
• This year played NC on a naval carrier - if you didn't catch that
• Rumored to be scheduling a game with USC to be held in the Roman Coliseum - Spartans and Trojans
• The last team to beat us at home before Wisconsin did it last week...
• That was the first game without Robbie after the first ACL tear
• The Student section, the Izzone is our rival for Coaches v Cancer
• Made it to..
• 3 Title games - won 2
• 8 final fours
• 11 Elite 8
• 15 Sweet 16s
• Tom Izzo has the highest win percentage at MSU since 1910
• The court in The Breslin Center is the actual floor the team won the 2000 NCAA tournament on.
• Famous Alumni
• Founder of QuickenLoans (hence why they now sponsor BTN), Dan Gilbert
• Chris Hansen
• Robert Mugabe was issued an honorary degree in 90 which was stripped in 2008.
• Magic Johnson
• Plaxico Burress 
• Tom Bodett - "We'll leave the light on for ya"

• The Fondue - Green and White Chocolate