Debate proposition: Dantonio is the best coach in the B!G.

We got a game tonight.

They just lost to northwestern. They've gotten lucky in a few games this year like indiana and iowa but hes pretty good.

Given their on the field success, and off field issues, with objectively inferior players, the only logical conclusion is that their entire team takes steroids.

But he’s national coach of the year assuming MSU keeps winning

In terms of game prep and attitude/mindset, yes.

Why is going 3-9 an argument in his favor?  Especially in year 10 of his tenure.  What legendary coaches have done that?

As an aside, I have noticed posters on this board (not this OP) suggest that our win over MSU last year "counts less" because they were 3-9 last year and that this isn't a mark against Dantonio's coaching success.  Dantonio "owns" Harbaugh b/c his only loss was with a 3-9 team and does more with less talent--never mind that Dantonio had a fair bit of talent on that 3-9 squad.

By the way, I do think Dantanio is one of the best coaches in Big Ten, but I find it strange that so many posters turn every negative against Dantonio into a reason for further accentuating every positive.  If Harbaugh had four seasons of at least six losses in his first decade at Michigan, we would be irate.  

He can take a pile of toothpicks, tinfoil, scotch tape, and used kleenex and somehow make a functioning am/fm radio out of it.

We could have played that Penn State game 10 times and we'd have lost 10 times. I do not have the slightest idea how he does it, but he does it. That team should go 2-10 with the talent they have, and they're poised to make a run at the B1G. It's infuriating and amazing.

Not that good. Have had about a decade straight of luck. Will likely still finish .500 this year. -Brian Cook

and he has done well vs. Michigan, he did just come off a 3 and 9 season.  Will say today showed he can get his team up for games besides Michigan.  That and the 2015 upset at OSU are the only games besides Michigan I remembering him winning where he had less talent than the opposition.  It would have been an incredible embarrasment to MSU had M managed to eake out a win this year losing 5 turnovers to none.  Very good coach.  Not king. 

He delivered great results at BGSU, Utah, UF and OSU. He has 3 NCs. He is probably the best individual recruiter in CFB, although Ssban has a better staff. He also wins a ton of close games. Today was shocking because it happened to Urban. Winning record against every coach other than Sabsn. Dantonio has some intermittent very good seasons with junk. He has 1 CFP aappearance with a 38-0 bludgeoning. Now he might be the QB whisperer at this point in the B1G, but the roids and thug culture at MSU diminish his stature. When PSU demolished MSU last year, it wasn't a shock. Dantonio needs specific conditions for his limited style of play to work.

This is an insanely stupid post. Urban Meyer has three national titles and a .850 winning percentage.  Dantonio has had 6 or more losses in 40% of his seasons at MSU.  It's not even a contest. 

3 and 9, nuff said

Don’t say this they will downvote u

Urban still is, but until Harbaugh wins a division his NFL achievements don't matter and Dantonio is clearly second.

But he could obviously convince Tony Robbins he was under rated and motivate him to upset any over rated guru.

I️ don’t care.

His winning percentage at MSU is a full ten percent higher than Saban's was at MSU, and he led them to top-6 national year end rankings for three consecutive years.  I put Meyer and Saban as the top two current college coaches, but Dantonio is an elite coach and a perfect fit for that program (just like Harbaugh is a perfect fit for our program).  The results he gets given the much more limited resources of MSU are incredible.    

I'd say based on big ten records sure. But urban gets credit for 2 national championships at florida making him #1. Now if state beats osu next week that would be something...