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'It just becomes complicated': Mark Dantonio retires as Michigan State football coach

MSU football coach Mark Dantonio during his press conference on retiring The Detroit News

East Lansing — In the end, Mark Dantonio did the math and it didn’t add up.

To be fully committed to getting Michigan State back to the top of the Big Ten, the time it was going to likely take was more than he knew he had to give.

“I tried to think about the things that I was trying to accomplish,” Dantonio said Tuesday night, “and I was thinking about the things that I was going to have to take steps towards.