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Le'Veon Bell to Michigan State recruits: Enjoy the cold, take over the program

HOUSTON -- He had offers from Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan, Marshall ... and Michigan State.

For Le'Veon Bell, a lightly recruited prospect out of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, the choice was obvious. He was going to be a Spartan.

But he arrived in East Lansing without much ballyhoo, and as an early enrollee, didn't have a typical signing day that other recruits enjoyed Wednesday.

"I was already kind of up there in college already, but I remember coming in and Coach (Mark Dantonio) talking about us and putting on highlights and things like that," Bell said Wednesday while working radio row at the Super Bowl.