Mark Dantonio: New AD Bill Beekman a ‘unifying force’ for MSU

(Photo: Dale G. Young, Detroit News)Michigan State has a new athletic director. However, that person is not new to Michigan State.

Roughly five months after interim president John Engler said a national search to replace former athletic director Mark Hollis would not include internal candidates, interim AD Bill Beekman was named Monday to the permanent post.

In early February, Beekman was named interim AD by Engler, who said then a national search would begin for a new person to oversee Spartan athletics and that “no internal candidates from MSU will be considered.”

Engler, at a news conference on the MSU campus, said all the coaches and MSU Board of Trustees supported the move to name Beekman…