The Tucker story reminds me of another coach, one who folks here will not think of in that light.
Darrell Hazell.
Hazell delivered a coaching job that in a similar timeframe is frankly worlds more impressive than what Tucker has done at MSU. Hazell went 11-2 at Kent State in 2012. You might say, MAC job, whatever. But here's the thing, that's a program that had two winning seasons between 1977 and that year. And he had them a game away from the Orange Bowl in Year 2.
That's insane, and it didn't mean anything.
He showed up at Purdue, had maybe the worst tenure of any Purdue coach (a high bar) and was gone. Does this mean I think Mel is going to bomb out? No. But it means I'm hesitant to crown a guy on a very good start with basically one very good win.
(For fun, the mythology if the Urban Bowling Green run has been modestly overstated, though folks in the coaching world could also see he was a high end rising star)
