Glad to see all of you are so noble to walk away from $4.3 million

Honestly, it's mostly a statement on the weakness of the MSU admins that they went along with this.

It's obvious what Dantonio was doing.  It was obvious all the way back in October.  That's fine.  But Bill Beekman didn't object at all, he played along.  President Stanley, to the degree he knew about this (maybe he didn't), played along too.

A stronger AD would have made a move in late November, and found a way to get Dantonio most if not all of that $4.3MM anyway.

It would take someone who knew the difference between right and wrong and had integrity to turn down that money. Not surprised Mork did what he did. That said, he won’t be hard up for a meal anytime soon. He will be set for life and so will his family so it’s a little bit different than asking a guy making a moderate/average income if he’d take the money. Turning it down would have been classy, kind, appropriate, and unselfish. While many people who are all of those things might not be in a position turn that kind of money down, he certainly was and it speaks volumes

Lol, I don't blame Dantonio at all if this was an actual cash grab. If anything it makes the University look like dipshits for not figuring out his intentions immediately after the bowl game and still offering to pay him his bonus so they could get an actual coaching search done. 

Instead he gets his money, MSU will probably go a year with an interim coach and the same staff since the coaching carousel is over, their recruiting will tank even further and they will continue to be terrible. 

And on top of it all he retired in a damn tweet like a teenager!

Sure you didnt mean to post this with your RCMB account?

If I had the option to walk away from $4.3 million to preserve my integrity or keep it and wait for the 84-day news cycle to forget about me, I sure as shit wouldn't be posting on MGoBlog about my decision or the reasons for it.

So your last shit post was at -36 last time I was in there to respond to your ad hominems.  

Not to be deterred, you start *this* shit post.

4 million buys a lot of commitment from someone to keep a common front with the school

OK, Yes, I'd wait for the bonus and then leave BUT, Mork said at the end of the regular season that he "wasn't going anywhere". Was that a cryptic way of saying he'd stay at MSU in some capacity? Don't think so.

It was made clear that Mork would be the HC in the 2020 season. I think deposition thing is the walls closing in. I say, there a lot more to come on this.

I think the bigger douchebag part of it is leaving your coaching staff with very little time to find other jobs when he probably knew he was going to do this awhile ago. Then again they only had jobs last year probably because he didn't care about the future so maybe it evens that out.

This is either a very sensitive Michigan fan or a Michigan state troll that wandered over to the wrong board. This could have easily been a reply in the actual Mark Dantonio retirement thread, but you needed your own thread to scream it from a mountain top. Need some tissues?

Really screwing the recruits over

Even doing this on the day that he got his bonus check in January would have at least given the recruits a little time to process this. Now it's about to be NSD and these kids are left with a lot of questions. 

He's the greatest coach in their school history and he sends out a tweet instead of holding a press conference? It's February 4, and the information is starting to leak out from the Curtis Blackwell lawsuit. Most of the good coaching candidates have been poached, by now, and the unsigned recruits have almost no time to process this information. Something really smells fishy about the timing of all of this.

Are Special Agent Utah and Maize 'n Ute the same guy?  Seems like it.

Eat a dick, bruh!

He didn't "hang around just long enough" to get the bonus. He stayed, I think, like 30 days longer than that. If he wanted to leave MSU with the money, he could've told the admin that, stayed, let them be doing a shadow search in the background, and boom, everyone's golden.

This really looks like he wanted to come back and something came out in the Blackwell thing that forced someone's hand.

He could have negotiated an exit plan immediately after the bowl. He fled in the night and screwed everyone he worked with and damned his legacy. Now it’s hilarious because it’s MSU. But don’t act like he made any good choices here. He made the worst possible decision at almost every turn. He was apparently in high schools recruiting in the past 3 days. It’s not just about the money, it’s a bad look even if you ignore the money.

Hey if anyone needs something immoral done and has 4.3 million dollars to pay for it then go ahead and slide into my DM's and well get er done.

Sorry to burst your bubble, bub, but some of us actually do believe in striving to live an ethical life.

I have a lot of problems with Mork.  But collecting a bonus that was placed into the contract as an incentive to stay until Jan 15, 2020...is not one of them.  It is not a bonus for staying next year.  It is a bonus for staying last year (and until January 15).  It is what the contract was intended to achieve.  

There is nothing unethical about collecting a bonus for staying exactly the time everyone intended for that bonus to accrue.

WTF?   .stupid post

Well, I guess the circle is complete.

Go Blue

Not the same situation at all.

If he earned that bonus, I have no problem with him getting it.

I have no problem, zero with people earning legit money any way that they can get it.

Nope. 

He could have still coached in 2020, or maybe there’s something preventing him from doing that??

Shitbags who justify themselves by pretending everyone else is also a shitbag are my favorite.

It's nice to have someone publicly recognize and validate my nobility. Appreciate it.