Michigan State rewarded football coach Mark Dantonio with a revised contract that boosts his annual compensation from $1.13 million to $1.8 million. That moves Dantonio’s deal into the upper echelon of contracts for Big Ten coaches, trailing only Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz ($3.03 million), Ohio State’s Jim Tressel ($2.6 million) and Michigan’s Rich Rodriguez ($2.5 million).
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Coaches love to talk about “program wins”: games that count as more than just a notch in the win column because they help elevate the team to a new stature.
The inspiration for this trek through old box scores is one of those wins: Michigan State’s comeback victory over Wisconsin on November [...]