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Mark Dantonio, Nick Saban love Michigan State football hiring Mel Tucker

Mel Tucker spent 2019 as head coach at Colorado, where he went 5-7, after three seasons as Georgia defensive coordinator. Detroit Free Press

Michigan State football is starting a new era with a somewhat familiar face at the helm.

Mel Tucker, who resigned as Colorado head coach on Wednesday to take his new job, started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at MSU. It came after a career as a defensive back at Wisconsin.

Safe to assume that Tucker had close relationship with the Spartans defensive backs in 1997-98.

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