East Lansing -- Ever since Michigan State won the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1 with a dramatic, come-from-behind effort over Baylor, coach Mark Dantonio has been hammering home one point:
Michigan State is selling results.
It's a far cry from November 2006, when Dantonio took over a Michigan State program that hadn't sniffed any level of consistent success in more than a decade.
But eight years later, Michigan State isn't just winning games here and there, sprinkling in a solid season followed by a significant letdown – a pattern that was followed often from George Perles to Nick Saban, and even to a certain extent with Bobby Williams and John L.