This is just getting beyond ridiculous.

Mark Dantonio — that’s Mark Dantonio — has Michigan State 12-1 and in the College Football Playoff, and the national media still can’t get his name right.

The latest is Sports Illustrated, which has a College Football Playoff special edition cover with a photo of Spartans quarterback Connor Cook and a headline that says: “How Mike Dantonio Rebuilt the Spartans.”

The cover began making the social media rounds this afternoon and a rightfully outraged Spartan Nation began tweeting Michael Rosenberg, the author of the piece inside.

“Our fault,” Rosenberg replied. “We’re re-printing. As you might imagine, I don’t write or see covers before printing … the story has it correct.”

That’s correct. Writers like Rosenberg — formerly of the Detroit Free Press — have nothing to do with the headlines, either in magazines or newspapers.

Of course, the Spartans like to embrace the chip-on-the-shoulder mentality, so one fan thanked Rosenberg for “the bulletin board material.”

“Ha,” Rosenberg replied. “There is no room left on the bulletin board at this point, and anyway you can’t see the board behind all those trophies.”

Sports Illustrated later issued a correction, saying it “misidentified” Dantonio on its special issue cover: “On one of the covers of Sports Illustrated’s special newsstand-only College Football Playoff Preview issue — there are regional editions for each of the four teams — Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio was misidentified. The Spartans-themed issues are being reprinted and will be available on newsstands shortly. Sports Illustrated apologizes to Mark Dantonio, Michigan State and its fans for the error.”

To SI’s credit, at least it got Dantonio’s — that’s Dantonio — last name right.

He went through the ESPN car wash before the season, and when he wasn’t being pelted with questions about Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh, he also was being called “Mike” by interviewers or even “Mike D’Antoni.”

Maybe it should be a drinking game, any time they mess up his name.

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