Throughout Mark Dantonio’s career he has brought a football teams to stardom. Mark Dantonio is the coach of one of the biggest college’s in the state of Michigan.He coaches at Michigan State University. He has brought them to a playoff game and multiple bowl games. Mark Dantonio is an inspirational person because of how he has battled hardships,brought back a football program from start to finish, became one of the most successful coaches in NCAA history, and he has ranked in the top 10 for coaches poll in 5 seasons.
Mark Dantonio comes from an Italian heritage. His Grandpa, Frank D’antonio came to the U.S.A. from Montenerodomo,Italy in 1912. After a mistake at Ellis Island the apostrophe was lost so it changed from D’antonio to Dantonio.
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On March 2nd of 1956 Mark Dantonio was born in El Paso,Texas. Now Dantonio is 61 years old. Dantonio raised in the small town of Zanesville,Ohio. After Dantonio finished High School in Zanesville Dantonio got a scholarship to attend the University of South Carolina to play football as a defensive back.
What does Mark Dantonio do for a living? Mark Dantonio is a top ranked NCAA Football coach. The First couple of Head coaching jobs Dantonio had were at very well known Colleges like Cincinnati and Michigan State. Currently Dantonio is coaching at Michigan State University.
Some Say that Mark Dantonio is the best coach out there and has some very comeback like quotes like this one “I’m very proud of our football team,and I’m very proud of the way our football team handled themselves after the game as well. You don’t have to disrespect people. If they want to make a mockery of it,so be it. Their time will come. (247sports,2017).”
Mark Dantonio is one of the best coaches in college football. During is time coaching he has a 65% win to loss ratio. During Bowl games he has won 50% of games. But in 2016 he had his worst season yet. Going 3/9 in
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879 wins in 36yrs of coaching, 2nd most in men's college Division I basketball history behind Bob Knight.
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4 ranking in the final AP Poll in 2010. He parlayed that prosperity into a Super Bowl appearance as the San Francisco 49ers head coach in 2013, proving that his elite coaching skills translate to any level. With that success comes the clout that has allowed Harbaugh to compete within college football’s most important landscape, the recruiting arena.
So crazy, in fact, that even when a coach turns a blind eye while a massive sexual assault scandal implodes the very program he helped turn into a national powerhouse, is still considered one of the premiere coaching candidates in college football.
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