EAST LANSING – What if Mark Dantonio returned the interest Texas showed in him as he prepared Michigan State for the 2014 Rose Bowl … or if “Little Giants” didn’t work … or if MSU’s search committee wasn’t willing to wait for the end of Cincinnati’s 2006 season to talk to him?
Or, hey, what if Dantonio got that Ohio high school job he wanted after he and the rest of Jim Dennison’s staff at Akron were fired in 1985?
These are all hypotheticals the Michigan State football fan would rather not entertain, considering how reality has worked out instead.