As Nebraska fans yearn for the days of yesteryear, Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio reflected on those very days at his weekly news conference.
Dantonio was defensive backs coach at Kansas from 1991-94, and a reporter asked him how often Kansas won head-to-head recruiting battles with the Tom Osborne-led Huskers.
“Head-to-head? Oh, we weren’t going head-to-head too often, I don’t think,” Dantonio said. “My wife used to call it the Big Red machine.”
That led to a question about the changing landscape of recruiting today and the difficulty in stockpiling players. Dantonio referenced Osborne’s culture in developing an “overabundance” of non-scholarship players as one reason behind the Huskers’ longstanding success.