Mel Tucker to Michigan State as HC

Good Lord!!!

@ Bielema thinking they’d hire him.

MSU wasn’t necessarily in the catbird seat when Dantonio decided to retire 1 day before NSD

Interesting. Well he did start his career there under Saban.

My neighbor was on the UGA coaching staff and moved to Boulder following Tucker. Nice guy (didnt see him much) and just uprooted his whole family and moved them to Boulder.
Assuming the new coach will send anyone tied to Mel packing and sure Mel will take him with him.

Poor kids are middle school age and in two years have been moved across the country twice. Got to be hard having a new school each year.
Life of a coach I guess.

Football coaches at this level make so much $$$$ it's hard to feel sorry for them.

I think I would just have the wife and kids stay near her family and I would go out and coach where ever. Maybe live in an RV .

That way you don't have to worry with how job security effects your kids.

No one mentioning the fact he literally posted to twitter and called into local radio stations to say he was staying in Boulder. On top of that he made a blindsided comment earlier that there is no transfer portal in real life. A real hypocrite.

And what has he done to deserve $5 million? Go 5-7 while having a senior QB record holder for the Buffs. Move was trash

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No one mentioning the fact he literally posted to twitter and called into local radio stations to say he was staying in Boulder. On top of that he made a blindsided comment earlier that there is no transfer portal in real life. A real hypocrite.

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The number of people who would pass on a ~$3M raise to go coach at a school that is also more willing and able to support the work that you're doing is incredibly small. I don't doubt that Tucker meant what he said when he said he intended to stay... The transfer portal comment was misguided in the first place... Literally, anyone can pack up and leave any job for a better opportunity... it's the way the world works.

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And what has he done to deserve $5 million?

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... According to several accounts, MSU needed to make a minority hire in order to better shield themselves from the wrongful termination lawsuit going on... That doesn't mean it's the only reason, but it might be *a* reason for the substantial pay bump offered.

He didnt give colorado a chance to double his salary?

I promise you... Colorado could have thrown more money at him at any moment before he took the job.

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And Tucker’s departure is a glaring, if somewhat unexpected, example of our reasoning.

The Spartans are doubling Tucker’s salary, according to The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman, who broke the story, and they’re providing him with a vastly larger salary pool for assistant coaches.

Tucker earned $2.4 at Colorado last year, according to the USA Today salary database.

He will double that at MSU, per Feldman.

The salary pool for Tucker’s assistants was $3.16 in Boulder (USAT).

It is expected to double in East Lansing (Feldman).

And it’s not like the Buffaloes were holding out on him.

According to Colorado’s NCAA financial report for FY19, the athletic department experienced a $3.4 million shortfall in the 2019 fiscal year, with $95 million in revenue against $98.4 million in expenses.

They were paying what they could pay given the budget.

Michigan State’s revenue in FY18: $145.6 million (USAT).

This is a perfect example … a painfully perfect example … of the impact of the disparity in resources:

Michigan State will receive about $55 million from the Big Ten in FY20 from the conference’s media rights deals.

Colorado will collect about $33 million from the Pac-12.

And that $22 million difference is just for one year.

The disparity will continue year upon year.

Over the next five years, each Big Ten school will collect approximately $139 million more from conference distributions than each Pac-12 member.

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It's actually a pretty good read once you get past the butthurt about losing the coach...

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... According to several accounts, MSU needed to make a minority hire in order to better shield themselves from the wrongful termination lawsuit going on... That doesn't mean it's the only reason, but it might be *a* reason for the substantial pay bump offered. ?

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The job is worth $5M.
Regardless of Tuckers credentials. Michigan State is going to be investigated. The program is going to be in turmoil. Mel Tucker has a mountain of a job ahead of him that the odds will be against him. He passed on a stable job to take on the burden. Mich St offered that money because that is what it would take to lure a candidate in February for that mess.

Can't blame the guy for taking a nearly $3 million raise. I'd be a bit salty if I were one of his players, but it's 3 million dollars. He has to say yes.