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I still kinda like Meathead. It looked like he had things going in the right direction at Arkansas for a couple of years, but then things went south pretty bad.
According to Rico Beard (who blocked me) Dantonio wanted to coach the upcoming 2020 football season, then retire & pick his own replacement. However, in meantime, MSU had hired a search firm to look into finding a new coach. Dantonio found out, was upset, & abruptly retired
Michigan State has hired Mel Tucker, head coach at Colorado, to replace Mark Dantonio.
Apparently Coach Tucker changed his mind after Luke Fickell turned down the job.
Sounds like he's going to get an improved war chest to bring in assistants, and he's nearly doubling his current pay. Plus, he has a 3 million dollar buyout at Colorado, which I'm sure MSU is paying for.
Ah yes, Mel Tucker. One of the worst Bears defensive coordinators in their franchise history. I remember the days when it was exciting for the Lions to play his defense.
Guess the college game is more suited for Tucker...
If they came at Fickell with the same intensity and offer he would be coach. They learned Ted Dibiase's great maxim a week later than they should have.
Wish the guy well but this looks like a Booby Williams type hire. Tucker's coaching resume is unimpressive. I see lots of connections to past MSU football people that may have been the underlying cause for the hire - not his recruiting or coaching skills. There's little evidence that he has mid-west connections or the recruiting chops to bail out the dumpster fire that is MSU recruiting and in that vein he's been out west for a while and probably not a plus.
3 seasons?
Guess we'll see. Glad it wasn't Fickell.
Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.
Tucker did a phenomenal job at Bama. It's one of the reasons I hate Kirby. Stealing Mel was a bigger setback than any asst we have had poached. Headcoaching is a different game, though, but he made real improvements at Bama.
"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham Lincoln
I liked Tucker a lot at Ohio State. And I thought he did a pretty good job of recruiting, but that was awhile ago. I didn't see much of his Colorado team. They certainly showed some grit in battling back to beat the Mighty Huskerz.
I'm mostly agnostic on the hire. I tend to think he'll be closer to 8-4 than Bobby Williams.
Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]? Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.
A lot depends on how much MSU invests in top assistants. You need a staff that sets a standard on the field and off and then recruits like mad men. You get a bunch of jobbers just looking for a paycheck and it will be a rough tenure for him.
"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham Lincoln
I don't see this as a Bobby Williams hire. It will be good, I think they will recruit better. One of the plainly obvious problems of the last 5 years was the lack of new assistants who were going hard on the recruiting trail. Dantonio and staff went pretty hard on the recruiting trail in the first 5 or 6 years, then they kind of got complacent. That happens a lot in college football, you get that initial burst of activity and that is hard to keep up. We'll see what happens, I personally wasn't a big Fickell guy but if they targeted him naturally I wanted to them to get him. I think they recovered as well as could be expected dealing with a clown show BOT and neutered athletic department. If the reports are correct they put a lot more money into the assistants pool and more into strength and conditioning.
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