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Mel Tucker (HC Michigan St. Spartans)

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Jaxbuck said:
Fair enough but Jim Tressel acolytes are not going to get you to the promised land in modern college football.

Not sure I'd dump a bunch of money on a guy who's maybe a marginal improvement over the interim guy who will do it for nothing.
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Well, even taking away the histrionics from their message-board fanbase, it does sound like the MSU BOT was very motivated to hire a minority if they couldn't land a "big name" coach, so Tucker does fit that bill.
 
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Jagdaddy said:
Hard to say, but they overpaid. But with BIG money, what is overpaying really?
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@ORD_Buckeye could tell you better than I but I've labored under the impression that MSU isn't exactly rolling in money overall as a University. Especially with all the payouts.

Not sure they should be throwing millions at the closing time chick.
 
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They were going to have to overpay somebody, the money Tucker ended up getting would be the only reason to take that job at this point. It would take a miracle to turn that dumpster fire around anytime soon.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
@ORD_Buckeye could tell you better than I but I've labored under the impression that MSU isn't exactly rolling in money overall as a University. Especially with all the payouts.

Not sure they should be throwing millions at the closing time chick.
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I don't know how the settlements have hit them. Overall, they fall in the middle of B1G endowments at $3B exactly, so by overall public u standards, they're pretty rich. I have no idea how their AD finances look, but they should be good.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
I don't know how the settlements have hit them. Overall, they fall in the middle of B1G endowments at $3B exactly, so by overall public u standards, they're pretty rich. I have no idea how their AD finances look, but they should be good.
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I thought I remembered a story about donations drying up to next to nothing.

Maybe it was the Pedsters.

who knows?
 
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Jaxbuck said:
He's going to need to the extra money to offset the extra pounding(s) he's going to take in the B1G as opposed to the PAC
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I agree with this. Utah is going to take a step backward with their graduations and some junior migration to the NFL.
USC just signed a class that was rated lower than Vanderbilt and Oregon State.

Why not stay in the Pac12 South for a bit and build the program up for a better job?
Instead, he's joined a program where he's immediately in 4th place in his division with an uphill climb.


Only thing I can think of is the MSU administration was very candid in telling him:

"Look Coach, we have other messes to clean up in our Athletic department. Land 7-8 wins, get bowl eligible, and keep the program clean and you'll earn yourself a lot of runway"

It's a shame. Coach MT was a good DC for us and he is a good coach.
 
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Sports talk in Denver is still on him today nonstop. This is the only time I can remember any of these idiots talking about CU football. From what I gather, Tucker is a cross between Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Judas Iscariot.
 
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