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Mitch Albom: An open letter to Michigan State football coach 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

Dear Coach Mel Tucker:

Consider this a welcome letter. Or a “welcome back” letter, because you were at Michigan State once before, in the late '90s. Your duties back then, as a graduate assistant on the football team, you told me, included shoveling driveways, changing ink in the printers, and turning on Coach Nick Saban’s showers “so they were warm when he came off the practice field.”

You’ve come a long way, Mel.