In his weekly Sunday teleconference with reporters, Mark Dantonio admitted that his Michigan State football team was flawed from an execution standpoint this week, but wanted to make sure all the blame wasn’t put on his coaching staff.
“I think that the execution sometimes, it’s on the field or it’s maybe production, but you can’t put it all on coaches,” Dantonio said. “With 50 seconds to go, we have an opportunity to go down and tie the football game. And he makes the first kick. But we had an opportunity to win the football game. The bottom line is, at the end of the day, do you win? There was negative-yardage plays, but there was some big plays in the game, and then there was some inconsistencies. And that goes across the board, and there’s a lot of reasons for that.”
Dantonio also made sure to take some of the blame on himself:
“There’s no game that you go through that is perfect from a standpoint of playing or officiating that situation,” Dantonio said. “When games are close like this, things can fall one way or the other based on a lot of things – some coaching, some playing, some officiating, whatever it is. But I’m gonna try to do the best, the best I can. If anything, I let maybe everything take me out of or allowed it to frustrate me to the point where maybe I’m not seeing as clearly. And that can’t happen.”
