As homage to #110, ITT we discuss Dantonio's greatest Spartan victory, and why!

Hell, maybe you think it was the loss to Michigan in his first year. ND miracle? Wisconsin victory by the hail mary or possibly the loss in the championship that same year.

Here's my choice, and the only time I cried in the stands at a football game. I just think it was the game that announced to the world "We're back motherfuckers, deal with us".

"We'll see who celebrating after this motherfuckin game"

Clearly it is Little Giants
I'll never forget being in the stands saying "are you fucking kidding me"

IMO it was successful because of a great block by Le'Veon Bell
(and by block I mean he tackled 2 defenders to spring Gantt completely uncovered for the score)
Victory for MSU....go for the win, it did almost scare Coach D to death, as he had his heart attack that night

Coach Dantonio's smile after the handshake is wonderful.

interesting debate that has many facets.

is it the greatest victory (vs. OSU to go to the Rose Bowl, in my opinion).. the most "what the fuck just happened victory" (Little Giants).. the most "what the actual fuck just happened victory" (Jalen Watts Jackson).. the victory that absolutely cements Dantonio in MSU lore forever (Rose Bowl vs. Stanford).. or possibly a total domination and embarrassment of UM (-48 yards).. the win vs Iowa which launched MSU into the CFP (we won't discuss the game vs. 'Bama)?

I think I'd agree with DWags - the Ohio State win sending us to the Rose Bowl is likely his greatest win.

Wally Fairway wrote:Clearly it is Little Giants
I'll never forget being in the stands saying "are you fucking kidding me"

IMO it was successful because of a great block by Le'Veon Bell
(and by block I mean he tackled 2 defenders to spring Gantt completely uncovered for the score)
Victory for MSU....go for the win, it did almost scare Coach D to death, as he had his heart attack that night

to Brian Kelly's credit, his smile and pat on the back to Danontio was pretty good, too - he knew he had been had and seemingly acknowledged it.

I'll say Little Giants as the best DANTONIO win, because that was his gigantic brass balls call.

Other victories are bigger wins or better all around wins in the Dantonio era, but Little Giants is just so fucking Mark Dantonio.

All great points and hard to argue otherwise.

Damn he’s had some huge victories

Lack of NC’s be damned. He might be the best we’ve ever had.

DWags wrote:
Lack of NC’s be damned. He might be the best we’ve ever had.

He is.

Couch made a good point, the thing that made Duffy great was also his built in advantage, better athletes. Dantonio is actually doing it in reverse. Just proves the "coaching" aspect. AND "the greatest coach of our time" quit on this program, said it couldn't be done... yet here we are.

My favorite is definitely Little Giants, as it's one of the few that I attended in person. The best coaching performance was probably against OSU.

I was at all of these games being discussed except for JWJ. #blessed

Vs Baylor. That was an unbelievable coaching job and I couldn’t believe it when we won.