Dantonio flexes Muscle!

Mark Dantonio coach of the MSU Spartans, heart attack survivor, Outback Bowl Champion, public speaker, master of ceremonies and now official time keeper for MHSFCA seminar held Kalamazoo this week. Okay, maybe I'm being a bit sarcastic here with the above info, so after you read this article found in the Detroit Free Press you be the judge.

By Dantonio cutting off Michigan's Jeff Hecklinski, an assistant coach and recruiter for going over allotted time by some accounts, he came off as smug, rude and a control freak. Each person on the panel had allotted time, there really is no need at an event like this to step on another coaches toe's. By doing this to an assistant coach, it comes off as petty and smug. Maybe Coach Dantonio is so set on making MSU vs. Michigan a bigger rivalry he is willing to make himself look unprofessional. I wonder if he would have done it were Hoke been able to be there?

There is no doubt, in my mind that MSU is trying to go over and above to make this football rivalry even bigger. After the events of the last few years I think Michigan, its fans and players understand there is more to the MSU vs. Michigan game that once thought, but as my blog post in the past, it just isn't the number one rival for Michigan. Someday, maybe it will become so but right now, MSU has done things to lessen the success they have had on the field by making such an issue out of this rivalry.

It is almost bizarro world, these two schools have switched places recently. Michigan is on a 3 game winning streak in Basketball, a sport in which MSU has dominated. Somehow Michigan fans aren't allowed to bring that up. As Basketball is the sport MSU deems as a sport where history can be talked about.

MSU has dominated Michigan over the last 4 years in football, probably the worst few years in Michigan's history but the future looks much more bright than in the past. Fans of the State program won't allow history to be used in the argument.

Either side you fall on this rival; Green or Blue, Spartan or Wolverine, there is no doubt a head coach flexing his muscle is hardly looking out for the little guy, no more than the position coach who goes over minutes talking to coaches. There was an agenda here, bravado in a setting like this can back fire and make you look more weak than 'for the people'.