Michigan State FB Coach Mark Dantonio steps down

jdoggivjc

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Every time a regent or trustee from somewhere speaks publicly about athletics, it makes me appreciate the setup in this state.

Well, excluding the fact that the history of the setup in this state shows it giving ISU the shaft every way it can get away with in favor of giving EIU every advantage possible. Well, during the Hayden Fry era, anyway.
 

jdoggivjc

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Agree that the optics may be poor but somehow a team hired a HC that had a 5-19 HC coaching record and won a title in a couple years because he got the right assistants in place finally.

I see you’re picking at old wounds. Appropriate, though - it’s similar situations, the difference being one is Auburn and the other is MSU.
 
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Haha. MSU has to pay an assload of money to a mediocre coach with **** offense just to not have to hire Tressel. The only thing Mel Tucker can sell is a Saban connection and decent recruiting, though a class around 35th isn't something special and if evals aren't right, could be no better than a class ranked 60th. This is great. With any luck they're paying a massive buyout in 2 years because they somehow think they're supposed to be what they were 5ish years ago all the time and in reality, they're not. They cannot be bad enough for me to be satisfied.
 

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Also, this is the difference between places like OSU and places like MSU. Instead of hiring a mediocre coach who was going to have to ride out sanctions, OSU simply promoted Fickell, let him do it for a year and then went and got a big fish with basically no money lost. MSU went out and overpaid for a mediocre guy and has much more downside. Beekman is a moron and it's everything that **** hole institution deserves.
 

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I think it’s way too early to speculate about that. The guy has literally been a head coach for one year and went 5-7 at a place that people to this day still thinks is the same Colorado program from 20+ years ago (and as ISU fans we should know better than that). He’s a guy that was an AHC with Nick Saban at Alabama (and who also gave him his start as a coach when Saban was still at MSU) as well as in the NFL as well as has been a DC at Ohio State, Georgia, and several different NFL teams. Plus he’s a solid recruiter that brought a strong 2020 class to Colorado including 4 ESPN top 300 recruits, not to mention he’s from Cleveland and historically knows how to recruit Ohio and Michigan. Under any other circumstances this is a really solid hire. The bad optics of this hire is MSU is paying $5.4 million for a guy with a career head coaching record of 5-7.
I watched him as defensive coordinator for the worst Chicago Bears defense in the history of their franchise. It was impressively bad, and MSU deserves him. If he can recruit, they might stay mediocre, but I know he cant outcoach the BIG east.
 

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That changed quickly from this tweet a few days ago.


What an a$$ hat. Don't say sh!t like this if you don't really mean it. Coaches really seem to struggle with the "committed" word in situations like this.
 

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I see you’re picking at old wounds. Appropriate, though - it’s similar situations, the difference being one is Auburn and the other is MSU.
Also, one gave the Heisman trophy winners dad a bucket full of money for his :church".
 

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Bret B might be a douche bag but he can coach. MSU would have been a hell of a lot smarter to hire him.

Bret really had things going at Arkansas, said nobody, and Wisconsin has not missed a beat since he left.
One of the more overrated coaching in the P5 was Bret. B, plus he is a piece of crap.
 
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