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After four months of off-field turmoil, Michigan State ready to return to football

EAST LANSING - Mark Dantonio walked down the staircase at the Duffy Daugherty Building on Tuesday morning with a group of media members waiting for him.

The Michigan State football coach had a smile on his face and stopped to pose for a picture with a young fan who had just wandered through the entrance.

It was a much different scenario from almost the exact time one week earlier when Dantonio and athletic director Mark Hollis spent a half-hour press conference being grilled about multiple sexual assault investigations involving four players who are no longer with the team.