by Brian Manzullo

Today, Kirk Cousins is an ascending starting quarterback for the NFL's Washington Redskins. Before that, though, he was a Michigan State Spartan -- and he isn't even close to forgetting where he came from.

Cousins - who started for MSU from 2009-11, winning 11 games his senior season and going unbeaten against rival Michigan - published a story for The Players' Tribune today, writing about his experience as a freshman in 2007, when coach Mark Dantonio was also beginning his first year in East Lansing. Cousins recalls what it was like for him as a freshman, watching Dantonio slowly but surely changing the face of Spartans football, during a time when MSU was "a basketball school with a football team."

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