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Spartan dogs: Meet KJ and PJ, the labs helping to create Mel Tucker's new MSU football workspace

Back in February, when the world still allowed for trivial things, newly-hired Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker had a press conference to lead, a coaching staff to build and a new house to buy with one question sitting at the front of his mind:

“How are we going to get the dogs there?”

For three years, Tucker has brought the same family along for these moves up the coaching ladder, from Athens, Georgia; to Boulder, Colorado; to East Lansing, Michigan. He’s had his wife, JoJo; his sons, 18-year-old Joseph and 16-year-old Christian; and his mother-in-law.

And he’s had two English white labs, KJ and PJ.