Edonidd
Well-Known Member
Huge homer here, but IMO Dantonio should be walking away with this. The year they beat Stanford in the Rose Bowl they wrre #4 in the country and i think would have won the Nstional Championship that year if there had been a playoff, but that was still BCS era. Still a top 3 finish in the country. Then he took a bad team to the playoffs. They got routed there because they were never good enough to be there, but he kept that team winning games all year that they shouldn't have. Whether it was the "Little Giants" fake FG to beat ND, or the all jailhouse punt block when only a blocked put returned for a TD could beat Michigan.
His problem is that his strengths as a coach are also holding him back. He gets his teams to buy into that family atmosphere, that us against the world mentality. But he's bought into it so much himself that he won't make any changes to his coaching staff. They scored like 56 points total on the season, and ran one of the most basic dumbed down offenses I've seen since 1987. But he didn't fire his OC, just shuffled him to a different pisition coach and promoted a different position coach to be OC.
Hes had just as much, or more success at MSU as Saban had here. Hes got Sparty fans disappointed with just winning seasons and bowl games. Every preseason Sparty is talking about big 10 Championships and playoffs. That's not the kind of school Michigan State has been for at least my whole life.
His problem is that his strengths as a coach are also holding him back. He gets his teams to buy into that family atmosphere, that us against the world mentality. But he's bought into it so much himself that he won't make any changes to his coaching staff. They scored like 56 points total on the season, and ran one of the most basic dumbed down offenses I've seen since 1987. But he didn't fire his OC, just shuffled him to a different pisition coach and promoted a different position coach to be OC.
Hes had just as much, or more success at MSU as Saban had here. Hes got Sparty fans disappointed with just winning seasons and bowl games. Every preseason Sparty is talking about big 10 Championships and playoffs. That's not the kind of school Michigan State has been for at least my whole life.