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Henning: Outrage over Mel Tucker's move to Michigan State smacks of hypocrisy

Mel Tucker took a football coaching job last week at Michigan State. This happened, as we know, a few days after he pulled his name out of the running for the position.

This abrupt change suggested — accurately, it seems — that a sweeter second bid, for about twice what he was making at the University of Colorado, with a blimp-sized budget for hiring staffers, induced a 48-year-old man to reconsider his earlier Colorado commitment.