Mel Tucker to Michigan State

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Seems like a bad career move IMO.

Michigan State is a mess right now. It's in a tough division. It's difficult to recruit top 25 classes there. I understand that Mel Tucker is from the midwest and knows the region well, and maybe that's why he's going there, but I feel like Colorado is a better job with higher upside. It's in a weak division right now as well, particularly with the divisional superpower (USC) being very down. And while there's not a ton of football talent coming out of Colorado, Boulder is one of the best college towns in the US; you can definitely recruit California and Texas kids to Boulder.
 
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Not sure it’s a ‘better’ job, but with all the fog around State I’m surprised he left. Mel was the guy I wanted when we hired Pruitt.
 
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Boulder for East Lansing? Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, Indiana (they’re getting better) in their division instead of Utah as the toughest team? You just traded a great town for East Lansing and a much easier road to winning your division for one of the toughest divisions in college football. I guess everyone has their reasons though.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
Boulder for East Lansing? Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, Indiana (they’re getting better) in their division instead of Utah as the toughest team? You just traded a great town for East Lansing and a much easier road to winning your division for one of the toughest divisions in college football. I guess everyone has their reasons though.
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Played in the B10, and was a GA at MSU for 2 seasons I believe.

But no way in hell I'd take that job over CU lol
 
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YankeeVol said:
Played in the B10, and was a GA at MSU for 2 seasons I believe.

But no way in hell I'd take that job over CU lol
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I didn’t really know his back story, but I guess that makes a little more sense. If you‘re an old school B1G guy I can understand if you don’t really mesh with Boulder, but from a career standpoint and the ability to rise quickly I don’t think it makes a lot of sense.
 
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Boulder is overrun with liberals and California transplants. The fanbase is pathetic, and I keep hearing how Boulder should be attracting all of these top recruits from Texas and Cali but they never sniff the top 25 in recruiting. Boulder is the Devils playground.
 
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Nationdom said:
Boulder is overrun with liberals and California transplants. The fanbase is pathetic, and I keep hearing how Boulder should be attracting all of these top recruits from Texas and Cali but they never sniff the top 25 in recruiting. Boulder is the Devils playground.
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Seems like a place for OLE BITCH Jones!
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
How does rejecting the Mich State job make him a "fraud"? If anything, it shows he's not a 'waffling flake' who is immediately going to jump to the next job. He's the anti-Butch.
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Because the week before he talked about how committed he was to UC, he wasn't going anywhere, UC needed to make a commitment to him blah blah blah and then he's trying to get in bed with MSU. Then he gets called out on his BS and turns MSU down
 
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Well, if there was ever a question of "who is smarter, Mel Tucker or Luke Fickell?" It was just answered.
 
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kind of a ******** move to leave like that and the CU boards are saying he didnt meet with his team either.

But hey, noone is offering me 5.5 mill....
 
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