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Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker: 'It's going to be about changing the culture'

Michigan State Spartans football coach Mel Tucker speaks to the media on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, in East Lansing. Detroit Free Press

When Michigan State hired Mel Tucker as its new football coach, he made a list of priorities and began crossing them off.

Many of those steps in the process of taking over a program aren’t scratched out yet, but development has been made during the week and a half Tucker has been in East Lansing.

There’s much more to come.

“It’s going to be about changing the culture,” Tucker said. “That’s going to be the first order of business.