Michigan State coach Mel Tucker said late last week, in the wake of the announcement that the Big Ten football season had been postponed, that one of his main focuses would be to “recruit, recruit, recruit.”
It didn’t take long for that to pay off as the Spartans secured a commitment Sunday from defensive end Alex Okelo, a 6-foot-6, three-star prospect from Nashville.
Okelo, who chose Michigan State over the likes of Tennessee, Ole Miss, Florida State and others, is the 12th commitment to Tucker’s 2021 class, and it was a recent visit with the staff that secured the decision.