2023 Michigan State Season Thread

[MrNubbz]

Both Brenda Tracy and Mel Tucker should have been fired by now.

due process as it's my understanding it's best to wait for final rulings before lowering the boom

[MaximumSam]

I can't speak to the situation, but I'd guess betting against powerful guys being aggressive horny weirdos would be a bad play long term.

Horny Weirdo verses Professional Victim. Choose your fighter.

[CatsbyAZ]

Brenda Tracy clapping back at Mel....and showing support for Jeem....who Mel dragged into this mess in his weird ass statement for some bizzzzzare ass reason (Mel a sociopath)....

dude is probably a borderline sociopath and he is most definitely a major dumbass of epic proportions. dude could've beat it on the phone with basically any other woman....any except for the one he did it with....

Might the same character flaws be said of Mel Tucker's legal counsel? Or Mel’s agent? Where are they in letting him release a rambling statement like that?!?!

Where Mel Tucker calls the situation a 'sham' but then admits to the allegations? It makes him more believable but he's banking on the matter coming down to consent. In a mess like this, where are his lawyers to tell him that if he’s banking on consent, he’s defaulted to the role of odious male aggressor? It's an uphill battle for him, best to stay quiet. And wouldn’t you know, Mel's statement is odiously aggressive!

[Mdot21]

Brenda Tracy's lawyer on why they went public....




https://twitter.com/KatieJStrang/status/1701665158760640521?s=20




Even if this lady is lying and Mel was in consensual phone sex relationship with her or whatever....he's still a monumental dumbass and MSU caught a break. They can take the bullet now, rip the band off now and be done and blow the program up and start over with a real coach. 

Put all this ordeal aside....dude is a $100 million fraud of a coach. He's honestly not a good coach. And he was trying in vain to recruit like a helmet, but only problem is he was never going to be able to recruit at the level needed to take on the helmets. Getting a flat out stud in the portal in KWIII took him from being a 7 or 8 win coach in 2021 to 11 wins. Let's say for shits and gigs he never got KWIII in portal and went 7-5. Hell I'll give him 8-4. That's still....5-7, 2-5, 8-4, 5-7 and yeah they are 2-0 right now but they were going to get blasted by Washington this weekend even if he was on the sideline. And they were probably a 6 win team, even if he was on the sideline all year.

They'll be able to dump his ass to the curb and not have to pay him the $80 million they still owe him. They'll be able to get rid of him for a fraction of the cost and they'll have a shot at hiring a real-life coach. 

They honestly caught a break. They were on the hook and tied to him at the hip because of that guaranteed contract. They were staring at 5-7 or 6-6 for eternity and paying $100 million for it. They lucked the fk out. 

[MrNubbz]

Might the same character flaws be said of Mel Tucker's legal counsel? Or Mel’s agent? Where are they in letting him release a rambling statement like that?!?!

THIS ^^^ WTF was he thinking? did he not read the morals clause? IMO this proves what a dim bulb he really is. Just by osmosis he should have known that ,hell Boby Petrino,URBZ misconduct,Hugh Freeze,Mike Price's strip club adventure off the top of my head.For Sparty fans and the BIG he needs to be gone.

And if Brenda Tracy is looking for Sympathy - it's between shit and Syphilis

[MrNubbz]

According to a comment on 97.1 the Ticket during Jeff Riger's show someone stated: "His divorce is going to be messier than this situation - his wife is an attorney"

The jokes just write them selves

[CatsbyAZ]

According to a comment on 97.1 the Ticket...

Speaking of 97.1 The Ticket, you knew Mike Valenti would have a Mel Tuggy reaction:

“I woke up to FIFTY SIX text messages and I’m going all right, who’s dead and then you realize it’s our head coach. So let’s just get into it…um Public Service Announcement: Mel Tucker might be the DUMBEST human being to ever walk the face of the Earth. He’s a character out of Idiocracy…”

“To say there was a lack of judgement would say there was a degree of judgement at all. The pure idiocy of Mel Tucker…we are so far past even having to battle anyone defending him there is no defense. His defense of consent doesn’t even play because he violated the morality clause…”

“My anger has nothing to do with Michigan State University. It has everything to do with this man. This guy effed over every donor, every fan, every player, every player’s family. The administration gave him everything they never gave Mark Dantonio. They gave him the facility! They gave him the assistant pool! They gave him a contract that was UNHEARD of! And his reward was this!”


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6-13ZZxNCg

[Mdot21]

“My anger has nothing to do with Michigan State University. It has everything to do with this man. This guy effed over every donor, every fan, every player, every player’s family. The administration gave him everything they never gave Mark Dantonio. They gave him the facility! They gave him the assistant pool! They gave him a contract that was UNHEARD of! And his reward was this!”

he's got a point here....they gave Mel Tucker use of a private jet for recruiting, $180 million in facilities upgrades, large assistant cash pool, and a $95 million contract....and he never earned any of it. Mark actually earned it on the field by winning huge games, winning the B1G, making a playoff, and they never gave him anywhere near that kind of support. For fksake they just named the new football facilities after the basketball coach. Idk....maybe name them after Mark? The disrespkt is real.

[MrNubbz]

Speaking of 97.1 The Ticket, you knew Mike Valenti would have a Mel Tuggy reaction:

“My anger has nothing to do with Michigan State University. It has everything to do with this man. This guy effed over every donor, every fan, every player, every player’s family. The administration gave him everything they never gave Mark Dantonio. They gave him the facility! They gave him the assistant pool! They gave him a contract that was UNHEARD of! And his reward was this!”

always listen to MV's latest CFB podcasts and heard that. Thanx for reposting Mike laid it out very well and Rico was livivd also.Not sure if I've heard of somebody shoot themselves in the foot then stick the damn thing in their mouth quite like Mel just did 

 

[Brutus Buckeye]

The MSU meltdowns are usually pretty tame compared to PSU, Nebraska, OSU or the Wolverines, but this chit is hilarious. I was listening to Valenti clips all morning. 

[Brutus Buckeye]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubhv1dZQBTs

[Temp430]

Michigan RB coach Mike Hart?  He was also OC at Indiana a few years ago. /s

[MrNubbz]

ELKO name comes up alot. Mike Tressel Jim's nephew,Candle from Toledo has done a decent job.Maybe even Nadduzzi hope they land some one decent,the BIG was fun when they/UW/PSU and the rest are good

[Mdot21]

Michigan RB coach Mike Hart?  He was also OC at Indiana a few years ago.

No. They need a guy who has been a head coach. MSU isn’t Indiana. It’s actually a pretty good job. They don’t need to hire a learning on the job guy. 

They need to just go out and find a good coach. Forget about the sizzle, go for substance. Don’t hire some guy who talks a big game but had nothing to show for it with a 5-7 career record. They need to find someone like Dantonio. Hard nosed, no nonsense, full of football substance. A real coach. Basically the complete opposite of the dumbass fraud they just fired. Harder said than done- because it’s really hard to find a good coach.