2020 Michigan State Offseason Thread

[FearlessF]

This would also help, extra so in a zero sum game


https://twitter.com/KySportsRadio/status/1227647677871140865?s=20


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there's your Pelini / Stoops connection
the guy can recruit, can he coach?

[DevilFroggy]

And for the record, I personally ain't THAT mad at Tucker. He's getting a hell of a raise and ending up at a school that puts much more support behind their football program.

I just ask for consistency regarding those who spat hellfire at other coaches who left their school after one season.

[FearlessF]

I just ask for consistency regarding those who spat hellfire at other coaches who left their school after one season.

it's wrong to leave a program after one season, but it happens often enough that it doesn't seem a big deal any longer

[Brutus Buckeye]

I had kinda lost track of this guy after his stint at Marshall.

[847badgerfan]

Graham spewed about coaches being disloyal when he lost a few from Pitt to AZ and DickRod. Then he left for his dream job at ASU two weeks later. He proclaimed Tulsa his dream job, but left for his dream job at Pitt shortly thereafter. He left Rice after 1 year, for Tulsa. Patterns are patterns.

How long before he leaves Hawaii for his dream job?

He's liar, and a jerkoff. All wrapped into one.

Tucker has had 6 jobs in 8 years, and interviewed for a ton more along the way (including twice at his Alma Mater). Time will tell how long it takes for him to move on again, but if I'm MSU, I'm not looking to Tucker as another Dantonio.

[ELA]

I had kinda lost track of this guy after his stint at Marshall.

Huh?  He was never at Marshall

[ELA]

Tucker has had 6 jobs in 8 years, and interviewed for a ton more along the way (including twice at his Alma Mater). Time will tell how long it takes for him to move on again, but if I'm MSU, I'm not looking to Tucker as another Dantonio.

How many did he leave on his own volition, that weren't a promotion?  I think this is the first?

Either way, guys move all the time now, you simply have to be ok with that.  Either he does well enough to get a better job, or poorly enough to get fired.  I'd be ok with the former.  I certainly don't anticipate him being Dantonio or Ferentz.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Huh?  He was never at Marshall

I appear to have mixed him up with Mark Snyder.

[FearlessF]

striking resemblance 

[Brutus Buckeye]

Yes, if they were standing side by side, I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference.

No, both were OSU DCs from the Tressel era that went onto be HCs.

[Hawkinole]

Surprising hire, after Tucker withdrew from consideration.

If the late exit of Dantonio put MSU in a hole, think about how this affects Colorado. As others on here have said you can go down to D-III, or non-power 5, and find well-organized outstanding human beings, or Bielema who has a resume, and who would benefit from coaching at an FBS P-5 school.

[FearlessF]

the question is... what happened with Luke Fickell???

I'm guessing Tucker withdrew when MSU said, we have our man, and his name is Luke Fickell

Did Fickell back out at the end, or did MSU not have a clue as to what was going down?

I'm guessing Fickell burned them in the end

[ELA]

I'm guessing Tucker withdrew when MSU said, we have our man, and his name is Luke Fickell

Tucker basically said as much.

Also sounds like Fickell had told them yes, then while the AD was conducting the interviews (including Tucker) that the BOT forced him to, Fickell changed his mind, or more to the point, people around him let him know Notre Dame was soon going to be an option.

Tucker knew the first interview was a charade, and I think the circle back, it was clear MSU was serious.  It sounds like if the BOT had just let Beekman go after his #1, and get it done, Fickell would be the coach.  Remains to be seen whether it worked out for the best or not.

[FearlessF]

will never know if it worked out for the best

hindsight isn't even 20/20

Good luck to Coach Tucker