EAST LANSING — Mark Dantonio posed the same question Mel Tucker is trying to figure out: “How do you change a culture?”
Michigan State football’s all-time winningest coached asked that rhetorically in the middle of perhaps the best stretch in school history, the magical three-year run that produced a 36-5 record, College Football Playoff appearance, two Big Ten titles and four straight bowl wins.
Yet even with the buzz of the Rose Bowl victory still reverberating during the 2014 season, Dantonio saw the Spartans’ fan support vacillating. It came to a head during a news conference Oct.