Mark Dantonio, Tom Izzo building something special at MSU

Watching Michigan State basketball over the past two decades has been quite the treat as Tom Izzo has built the Spartans into one of the best programs in the nation. However, it took the football program a little while to catch up as it had to shuffle through Nick Saban, Bobby Williams, John L. Smith and others to get to where it is today.

Mark Dantonio has joined the Green & White and turned the football program into a winner, year in and year out.

Looking at the programs from afar, they are very similar. In fact, it took Izzo until his fourth season to see some serious success as he led the Spartans to the Final Four in 1999. Dantonio is on the same path, seeing his first real success in…