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Mel Tucker leaves CU for Michigan State

Just a couple of thoughts on the entire situation.

1. Mel Tucker knew exactly what he was getting into with this job. A program with limited resources that just fired a coach and some of his staff for over $7 million. To go through one year where you went 5-7 and then be shocked at those limited resources is pretty chicken **** to me. This was always going to be a growth process over the next couple of years where you build things up and salaries/resources increase.
2. Michigan State is absolutely not a third tier P5 job. It may be a third tier Big-10 job but the amount of money they are throwing around after paying a $4 million bonus a couple days before is ridiculous.
3. Not only does the timing hurt with finding a coach but it hurt us with the buyout as well. If MSU went after him in 2019 the buyout would have been $5 million instead of 3 so I wonder if CU tries to recoup any of that difference since it is really part of the 2019 carousel.
4. Not sure where RG will go but I don't think it is as bad of a situation as it looks. You have a little buyout money to spread to keep current staff members and hire a DL coach, so the next guy could potentially come in and have a solid evaluation year and a bunch of expiring contracts next year to try and improve the staff. Getting a good recruiter at head coach is crucial though.
5. Feel bad for the players man, things finally started to look up.
 
What's he going to do after next season when LSU comes calling with an offer to re-double his salary to over $10M per year?

The crazy thing is that it's not like it Michigan or Ohio State, it's Michigan State. It's as confounding as if Ryan Day left Ohio State after one year to go coach at Arizona.
 
1. Leaving 1 year into a contract, 30 days prior to a scrimmage hurts the program.
2. Taking assistant coaches leaves the staff in shambles.
3. Players feel betrayed and many talented players may transfer.
4. This will impact recruiting for at least two years, that's the best case scenario.
5. RG will have to answer to donors, if he was in the loop, while accepting donor money at the same time, if so - expect support fallout.

Mel Tucker just leveled an entire Program, and did so after a losing season, leaving not only players, coaches, families and fan base upset, he lost his integrity in the process.
Bottomline, one year of Mel Tucker was destructive to CU.
 
FROM the Athletic:




" In the past month-plus, the Pac-12 has lost coaches to Michigan State and Mississippi State, middle-to-lower jobs in the Big Ten and SEC, respectively. Six Big Ten coaches made more than the Pac-12’s highest-paid coach last season (Chris Petersen). Tucker’s pay was in the
middle of the Pac-12. What the Big Ten and SEC are earning in media rights and donations dwarfs everyone else."

Larry F'ing Scott
 
I predict Mel Tucker will be Willie Taggart and Charlie Strong..who both fell on their face...but all set for life...
 
BuffinCali said:
Mel Tucker just leveled an entire Program, and did so after a losing season, leaving not only players, coaches, families and fan base upset, he lost his integrity in the process.
Bottomline, one year of Mel Tucker was destructive to CU.
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True, unless the players rally around a new coach and come together over this betrayal then Mel Tucker did more harm than good in Boulder. He's a con man.
 
I will give RG this next hire to turn this thing around...other than that why should I continue to invest in a dog **** program like this? I'm a huge fan but I'm not superhuman. **** this. Meltdown complete.
 
950 the Fan just reported that RG was trying to counter the MSU offer but Mel's agent wouldn't allow it to happen.
 
In retrospect, hiring Mel Tucker is the worst mistake that CU could have made. This will do great harm to CU's football program at a time when we could least afford it. I found out that Mel Tucker is not the man I thought he was, he is not a man of integrity and honor. He did not finish the job he was hired to do.

This is going to hurt the fan base, why should people invest emotionally and financially in the CU program when this crap happens. I am probably a little dramatic at the moment but I think this is a big hit.
 
King_George_XXIV_Rules said:
The crazy thing is that it's not like it Michigan or Ohio State, it's Michigan State. It's as confounding as if Ryan Day left Ohio State after one year to go coach at Arizona.
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Hold on, did you just compare us - the team that's had one bowl game in like 15 years - to Ohio State and Michigan State to Arizona?

Dear God people, it's not the '90s anymore.
 
JMBuffs said:
950 the Fan just reported that RG was trying to counter the MSU offer but Mel's agent wouldn't allow it to happen.
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So he allows MSU to come back after being publicly turned down, reiterates his commitment to his current employer repeatedly, attends donor events while his reps are talking to MSU but won’t give CU a chance to counter? Heavens sake, this keeps getting worse.
 
I’d be somewhat wary if I was a MSU fan. You just threw a ton of money at a guy who has five total wins as a head coach, recruited decently, but not great, and put together a patchwork staff at cu that seemed to indicate some lack of college coaching connections. That’s a gamble, not a home run for them.
That said, this really puts CU in a tough position. Harsin would be my choice if we can land him.
 
Same situation worked out great for Oregon.

They had Cristobal already on staff, though. I don't see a guy I'd want from the coordinators MT hired.

And that brings up another issue -- we should expect our coordinator hires to be guys who would be reasonable HC hires.
 
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