ESPN.com: Here Come the Spartans
10/21/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Oct. 21, 2008
EAST LANSING, Mich. - ESPN.com's Maria Burns Ortiz recently spoke with MSU head coach Joe Baum and a few of the men's soccer players about their recent string of big wins.
The Michigan State men's soccer team has no illusions. Entering the season, the Spartans believed they were capable of contending with -- and beating -- the top teams in the Big Ten and the nation. But they also understood not everybody saw them in that same capacity.
"The key here is some people had probably written us off," coach Joe Baum admitted. "But we never wrote ourselves off, and now, I think people realize we're a team that can do some damage here in the second half of the season."
In fact, Michigan State spent last week wreaking havoc on some of the top teams in the nation. The Spartans knocked off Indiana (2-0), No. 14 University of Illinois-Chicago (3-1) and No. 18 Michigan (1-0) in a seven-day span, sending a message to their conference and the country.