{"id":7029,"date":"2023-09-15T18:56:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T22:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=7029"},"modified":"2023-09-15T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T22:56:10","slug":"michigan-state-football-mark-dantonio-speaks-to-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=7029","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State football: Mark Dantonio speaks to media for first time since return"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>For the first time since being brought back to Michigan State football, Mark Dantonio speaks openly to the media.<\/h2>\n<p>For the first time since returning to <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-football-quotes-from-harlon-barnetts-first-coaches-show\/\">Michigan State football<\/a> this week, legendary former head coach Mark Dantonio has opened up to the media. He answered some questions on Friday, just 24 hours ahead of the Washington game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mark Dantonio on his return to MSU football\u2019s coaching staff. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xs8nts6XH4\">pic.twitter.com\/Xs8nts6XH4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Solari (@chrissolari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrissolari\/status\/1702778872993910926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to see Dantonio is good spirits after what can only be described as a whirlwind of a week. He&#8217;s smiling and answering questions from the media in this capacity for the first time in years.<\/p>\n<p>Some things from this short clip stood out to me. One, he&#8217;s happy to be back helping Alan Haller out as he said he&#8217;d do whatever the athletic director needed. He&#8217;s showing that he&#8217;s a Spartan for life and admitted that he told Alan whenever he needed anything, he&#8217;d help. Also, hearing him say that he&#8217;s been &#8220;very impressed&#8221; with the coaching staff and the order that they&#8217;ve stuck to really stands out. Obviously Coach D likes things done the right way so if he says that he&#8217;s impressed with how things are run and the structure, that&#8217;s a pretty good sign that the program is still in good hands.<\/p>\n<p>Dantonio also laughed when asked if he ever thought he&#8217;d be back in his wildest dreams doing something like this, stating that he\u00a0<em>was<\/em> enjoying retirement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very impressed with the players&#8221; is also a good quote. This means that the team isn&#8217;t playing the &#8220;woe is me&#8221; card and they&#8217;re getting down to business and back to work. They&#8217;re not hanging their heads over this whole mess. This is a resilient team, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Dantonio said that he&#8217;s going to be a &#8220;consultant or advisor&#8221; and that it&#8217;s &#8220;their show&#8221; and the coaching staff will run it. He said that if he has something to say, he&#8217;s going to speak up and say it.<\/p>\n<p>As for a long-term role, Dantonio hinted that it&#8217;s not likely after this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mark Dantonio asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mwenzel2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mwenzel2<\/a> if this is temporary or if he plans to coach longer than this season with MSU: \u201cI&#39;ve always said I&#39;m looking forward to retirement. I&#39;ll leave it like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Solari (@chrissolari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrissolari\/status\/1702777782223188170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chris Solari also reported that Dantonio will not be wearing a headset on the sidelines, but he will be out there on the field with the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59,191,189,504],"class_list":["post-7029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}