Mel Tucker Hired at Michigan State

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On Tuesday night (February 11th), Michigan State University came to terms with former Colorado University head coach Mel Tucker to be their new head football coach. This was after the poorly timed resignation of former head coach Mark Dantonio amid a swarming controversy of potential NCAA violations and poor performance over the last couple of seasons. 

 The coaching search was not as fruitful as MSU may have hoped as they interviewed San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh, Cincinnati Bearcats head coach Luke Fickell, and Tucker only to be initially turned down by all three men. The school then circled back to Tucker and offered him more than double his Colorado salary at $5.5 million while also doubling his assistant coaching pool budget and his strength and conditioning budget. Essentially the offer was more than what Tucker could refuse. He would have been a fool to turn it down and allow them to make the same commitment if not more to someone else. 

 For Tucker, the decision to take the job is a no brainer. He is mostly a career assistant nomad who had worked at 11 previous locations with only one season of head coaching experience. His one year as head coach was last season at Colorado where he went 5-7 in a down Pac-12 conference. He has been an assistant in the NFL which is a plus and he is seasoned at 48 years of age. He also has worked at MSU before as a grad assistant for Nick Saban. 

 Michigan State took a risk in throwing a lot of money at Tucker. Whether or not they made the right choice will be determined in the seasons to come.  

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