‘Totally different’ MSU impresses Haynes in his return

(Photo: Chris Knight / Associated Press)East Lansing — Some things are just as Paul Haynes remembers.

Michigan State’s newest defensive backs coach has seen his share of familiar places in just a couple of days on the job. Kellogg Center is still there — the place he proposed to his wife, Danita — and down Michigan Avenue is Sparrow Hospital where his daughter, Kennedy Rose, was born.

And, of course, there’s Sparty’s Coney Island. Haynes hasn’t been back yet, but he’s already been thinking about taking down a stack of pancakes.

All of that came from 2003-04 when Haynes was the Spartans’ defensive backs coach under John L. Smith.

Needless to say, while some things remain the same 14 years later,…