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Michigan State football emphatically redeems itself with hire of Mel Tucker

Mel Tucker’s resume speaks for itself. After starting his career as a grad assistant at Michigan State, he went to LSU, Ohio State, the NFL, Alabama and Georgia as an assistant before landing the head coaching job at Colorado in 2019.

Learning under a multitude of elite coaches, such as Nick Saban and Kirby Smart, it’s apparent that Tucker was a top option for Michigan State.

The Spartans interviewed him once, but decided that Luke Fickell was the No. 1 guy and went ahead and put the full-court press on him. And then Fickell surprisingly said ‘thanks, but no thanks’ to Michigan State and it looked like the Spartans were all out of luck.