Mark Dantonio
Mark Dantonio
Mark Justin Dantoniois an American football coach and former player. He is the current head football coach at Michigan State University, a position he has held since the 2007 season, presiding over one of the most successful eras in the program's history. He's led the Michigan State Spartans to three Big Ten Conference championships, and seven victories over archrival Michigan in eight years. In 2013, he coached Michigan State to its first 13-win season and the program's fifth trip to...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth9 March 1956
CityEl Paso, TX
You'll probably see him play three positions out there (today). That's something that's a positive for him. He's a football player, we just need to find him a role and allow him to grow into that role.
Tight end is a strength of this team and should be throughout this year, next year and the year after.
We have a lot of young players that have not experienced the Louisville game yet. I don't know if they can identify with it. But for the players that went through it, it will be very motivating.
Last year, almost whatever could go wrong, went wrong.
I said all along that if Dustin didn't get things moving we were going to go to Nick, we gave him an opportunity and we did do that the entire second quarter.
He's a better kicker than he showed last year. He's had an outstanding spring. He's been very, very consistent throughout the spring.
We'll challenge our players in a couple of ways. We'll talk to them about what TCU did to Oklahoma. We'll talk to them about what Air Force did to Washington.
He plays consistently. We've got to get all of our football team playing like that.
I asked him about that. They wanted to make the commitment to play one or the other. I brought up the basketball issue, but there was no interest in doing that. Right now, from an academic point of view, he needs to concentrate on one sport.
The difference in this game was we got no pressure on their quarterback and they got pressure on Dustin. Those were the two biggest factors. Louisville has a great front line and there was somebody in his face all day.