MSU offensive coordinator Dave Warner on his unit's progress this season The Detroit News
East Lansing — Balance.
It’s a simple concept and it’s what Michigan State attempts to achieve on offense every week. It often doesn’t lead to eye-popping stats that would make fantasy football owners proud, but it’s proven quite effective for Mark Dantonio and his staff.
Thanks to a typically physical running game with a suffocating, in-your-face defense, the Spartans have won plenty under Dantonio’s approach, piling up victories and earning championships along the way.
But now, four games into Dantonio’s 12th season lead the Spartans, that offense that still puts achieving balance at the top of the list of priorities, is stuck in the mud, barely in the middle of the pack in the Big Ten in scoring at 29.