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Jim Harbaugh, Mark Dantonio use similar blueprint to build winners

Kirk Herbstreit believes Michigan State has what it takes to go into Ann Arbor and beat Michigan despite how well the Wolverines have played recently.

In late May, Jim Harbaugh met with an eager cadre of high school football coaches in Detroit to start developing relationships with the men he hoped were molding some future Wolverines. It was among his first moves in a quest to regain control of the state of Michigan, and he made it with humility.

Mark Dantonio and his Michigan State Spartans have spent most of the past decade humbling the tradition-rich Wolverines.