Dantonio-Hecklinski incident at MHSFCA clinic today

He was supposed to talk about how coaches recruit, and all he talked about was Kirk Cousins? That's what they didn't have time for.

My father is a former president of the MHSFCA and has some stories that sound like this. It's also not a coincidence that the all star game, which has been held at MSU for ages (with the exception of a few years at U of M and I believe 1 year at Ford Field), was recently moved to CMU. Dantonio's actions and attitudes are most definitely divisive within the high school coaching community.

He's an ass.  But how many of the state's top recruits did he get, again?  It's not like he had much to lose, to be honest.

Presuming this happened, it adds to my suspicion that Dantonio may be suffering from Urban Meyer-itis. An ailment manifest by wondering around the house at 3am muttering and forgetting the names of your children. Seriously though, for most of the season, but especially at the B1G title game and the Outback Bowl, Dantonio looked gray and exhausted. Wound real tight. He's already had one heart attack. And now he is competing with Brady Hoke, Urban Meyer and Brian Kelly on the recruiting trail. A bit different than RichRod, Charlie Weis and personal friend Jim Tressel.

To paraphrase Nick Saban as he hopped on a private jet to Baton Rouge, State will always play second fiddle in Michigan. Sorry Mark.

Was that a direct quote from Dantonio? Who is your source? Were there legitimate time constraints? I am no fan of Dantonio, but something doesn't add up.

Regardless of how this is spun, and what was really said or not said, there is one part of the account that sounds beyond question:  Hecklinski did not engage in a verbal tit for tat, and reflected well on both himself and Michigan.

I can believe that Dantonio and MSU will give a different take on what Dantonio himself said. In the end, however, no matter the supposed justification, it simply doesn't reflect well on him or MSU, and conversely, is good for Michigan. I believe that many small things like this contribute to a strong relationship between a college and high schools, and will actually pay divididends as HS coaches counsel their own players on where to go and what to consider in a college.

I am stunned by this, I know the guy is 100% asshole, but it's like he's 4 fucking years old.

Hecklinski should have just shown a graph, one Milkshake on AA, and one milkshake on EL, with a maize and blue pipeline drinking Dantonio's milkshake (I wish I had MS paint skills).

In other news, water is wet and MSU is full of criminals. 

Where did you get this information from?

Wow. Sorry for doubting you, OP. I guess I didn't believe a Big Ten head coach would behave like a five year old child.

Jesus Christ, Dantonio.

But it's clear from the MHSFCA site that the two (Dantonio, Hecklinski) were on the same panel this morning:

http://www.mhsfca.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/2012_clinic_schedule_rev2.pdf

Maybe some enterprising soul can reach out to a camp participant?  I'd imagine it was a pretty popular and well-attended session for HS coaches.

Regardless of whether this particularly incident is true or not, it's become pretty clear from all other actions to date (feuding with Hart, swipes at Michigan during unrelated press conferences, the incident in the Bacon book) Dantonio is one disturbed cat.

Dave

p.s. Good to see that they started out the morning with an "everyone attends" session on concussions.

He benefited from the poor transition of Carr to RichRod, get's an upper hand with in-state recruiting and brings Michigan State football to a higher level.  Now Hoke steps in and his staff is dominating recruiting and he sees his window of success quickly closing and Michigan assuming it's regular place of dominance.  This is keeping him up at night, no sleep, a ton of stress as he sees his progress slipping away and Michigan's Sugar Bowl win is rubbing him like 120 grit toilet paper .  No wonder he's lashing out. 

isn't he wrong? if it was a discussion about how schools recruit and Heck was talking about how UM recruits, wasn't everyone there precisely to "listen to this?"

from your report, it does not say that it was a season wrap-up and senior review, so really, they weren't there to listen to what Mark D had to say

I'll reserve final judgement until we get some kind of other confirmation other than" internet messege board."  If it is true, I can't say I would be surprised.

I got curious and looked this bad boy up. Interesting schedule lineup at the clinic.  Yesterday, Borges spoke about "Blending a Conventional and Spread Offense."  Ron English is speaking right now about "Building a Program One Step at a Time."  Barwis is there too and will talk about fuzzy bunnies and chipmunks.  (Or strength training. Something like that.)

I want to believe this but I cant believe Sparty's leader would be so foolish, conversely he doesn't seem like the type to joke around in this scenario either, if this really happened it will come out as we all know coaches who would've been there and will love to give their account of the incident. 

Go Blue!

So let me get this straight:  Dantonio interrupted Hecklinski for talking about how Michigan recruits, at a session about how colleges recruit, and said that no one was there to listen to that?  Yeah, nice face of the university you got there, State.

While I very much want this to be true and wouldn't be too surprised if it was, I'd like to get independent conformation of this too.