If Mel Tucker agrees to stay at Michigan State via a 10-year, $95 million contract, the key part of this sentence for the Spartans will be “agrees to stay,” not the eye-popping numbers.
Is State overpaying for a guy who is just 16-13 overall as a head coach (one season at Colorado, two at MSU), especially when two of the toughest games of the season (at Ohio State, home vs. Penn State) remain?
Of course it is.
Based on accomplishment, there is nothing — not even this current 9-1 dream of a season — that suggests Tucker should trail only Nick Saban and his seven national titles on the list of highest-paid college football coaches.