New Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker just hired one former Spartans great to be an assistant on his slowly-coming-together staff.
Another former Michigan State football standout hopes there's room on the staff for at least one more alum.
"I've been in the game, I'm ready, let the monkey out of the cage, you know," Sedrick Irvin, one of the program's best running backs, told The News in a Wednesday night phone conversation from Florida.