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Mark Dantonio is entering into his 11th season at the helm and appears to be nowhere near stopping. Players are buying into his message and there is reason for optimism in East Lansing.

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The grand finale has arrived! Last week, Little Giants, the LJ Scott touchdown in the Big Ten Championship Game and the Cotton Bowl Victory over Baylor secured their spots on No’s. 4-6 of the Top 10 MSU football moments in the Dantonio era. The Kirk Cousins Hail Mary, Michael Geiger windmill, blocked field goal in the Outback Bowl and minus-48 rushing yards against Michigan made the cut as the final four spots in the ranking two weeks ago. Now it is time to see which teams will take the bronze, silver and gold medals as the top three moments in the Mark Dantonio era at Michigan State.

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Mark Dantonio walked down the staircase at the Duffy Daugherty Building on Tuesday morning with a group of media members waiting for him. The Michigan State football coach had a smile on his face and stopped to pose for a picture with a young fan who had just wandered through the entrance. It was a much different scenario from almost the exact time one week earlier when Dantonio and athletic director Mark Hollis spent a half-hour press conference being grilled about multiple sexual assault investigations involving four players who are no longer with the team.

Source: MLive.com

Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio held a media briefing Tuesday morning in the Demmer Hall of History inside the Skandalaris Football Center.

Source: Michigan State Official Athletic Site

A serious man by nature, Michigan State football coach Mark Dantonio struck the right note Tuesday addressing the sexual-assault scandal that sullied the program he leads. “I’m angry,” Dantonio said at a news conference in East Lansing, Mich. As he should be. As we all should be.

Source: Chicago Tribune

Mark Dantonio stood behind a podium in East Lansing on Tuesday and raised his already serious demeanor to the level that the situation demanded. Three of his Michigan State football players had been charged with sexual assault and the details were as troubling and gut-wrenching as you’d expect – three men, one woman, all in a bathroom; forced actions, camera videos, a poor cover-up and so on.

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“When I look back and I talk about the three players we’re talking about today, in the recruitment of them, everything was positive,” Dantonio said. “As a recruiter, you come into contact with these players in a controlled environment one, three, five, if somebody lives here close maybe 15 times, but you don’t live with them. You also have to understand that people are going to make mistakes, too. Sometimes these mistakes are life-altering. Other times, mistakes are not.”

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“It was my decision,” Dantonio said. “The thought process behind this was, quite frankly, that there has been numerous amounts of education thrown at our players, especially our freshman group, from the time that they’ve gotten here. One week before the episode, we had our Title IX administrator come in and talk specifically about a case at another university in this country. So the education, I felt, was there. And they compromised themselves by getting involved in such a situation.

Source: Detroit News

An independent investigation into Michigan State’s handling of two separate cases of allegations of sexual assault involving four football players found no evidence that football coach Mark Dantonio violated the school’s relationship violence and sexual misconduct policy.

Source: Detroit Free Press

Over the past decade, MSU coach Mark Dantonio has put Spartan football on the map as a perennial powerhouse. With so many fantastic moments, it can be difficult to remember every good memory. So if you think it would be handy to have a single list describing the top ten MSU football moments in the Dantonio era along with a video highlighting each of them, you’re in luck.

Source: Impact Sports