Mel Tucker kept bonus that was for the entire staff
Title says it all . . .
Check out this article from USA TODAY:
Michigan State paid Mel Tucker full $100,000 bonus earmarked for coach and entire staff
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2022/11/23/michigan-state-paid-mel-tucker-football-bonus-earmarked-staff/10754481002/
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:41 PM ^
FYI: This isn't going to go well.......
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:43 PM ^
To be fair to the OP, the previous one was buried in the thread about who is paying Tucker
November 23rd, 2022 at 1:11 PM ^
Yeah, really not the same thing as reposting something that had its own thread. Hell, I perused the Ishbia thread and didn't see this, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
Douche move on Tucker's part...
November 23rd, 2022 at 2:48 PM ^
Apparently, RCMB is saying anybody that questions this is a racist supposedly.
November 23rd, 2022 at 4:38 PM ^
This is a hundred grand in an environment of tens of millions. Small potatoes in that context. But what it says isn't really about the money. It's about an attitude that says its OK to short your direct reports out of money and keep it all for yourself. Not fireable. Not even worth spending much time talking about. Just an insight into a man and his values. Not a way to treat people if decency and loyalty mean anything. Just kinda horseshit, a term Mel is familiar with.
November 23rd, 2022 at 6:55 PM ^
That's right. It is small potatoes. So small that Mel may have adjusted for it somewhere else. I don't know. Michael Milken reportedly kept a $1B for himself back in the 80's. I suspect Mel knows he has to take care of his staff.
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:41 PM ^
#tuckcashingchecks
November 23rd, 2022 at 9:44 PM ^
#tuckstealingchecks
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:42 PM ^
They gave him 100,000 twice and he kept it again? Damn. That man must be hurting for money
November 23rd, 2022 at 1:17 PM ^
Real simple - little brother is getting everything they deserve, The $95 million dollar man is now sticking it to them. I'm still laughing my ass off.
November 23rd, 2022 at 2:44 PM ^
Horseshit move
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:42 PM ^
A little different than what Harbaugh did.
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:43 PM ^
95M wasn’t enough? He is the antithesis of Harbaugh, who surrendered bonus money to help the athletic department staff. MeL is taking L’s all the time now.
November 23rd, 2022 at 4:18 PM ^
It’s the bail money fund.
November 23rd, 2022 at 5:10 PM ^
but he's such a good guy.... /eyeroll
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:44 PM ^
The statement of you get what you pay for has an entirely new meeting!
And this on the heels of Harbaugh donating his bonus back to the athletic department. Someone’s going to be fired for this, and it won’t be Mel Tucker.
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:47 PM ^
Tucker is going to be cashing a lot of checks with no actually ROI in the coming years. The fact that he makes the same amount of $ as Ryan Day is absolutely hilarious. I love it since it shows how poorly he was handled. Beat Michigan twice, so let's overpay more than anyone in the history of college football has.
November 23rd, 2022 at 1:14 PM ^
"...so let's overpay more than anyone in the history of college football has."
Jimbo Fisher says "Hold my beer".
At least Tuck has the self-awareness not to go after one of the all-time titans in college football before face planting in the mud.
November 23rd, 2022 at 1:25 PM ^
Jimbo Fisher won a national championship....Tucker won't even sniff a Big Ten Championship game during his entire tenure at MSU. He was literally paid all that money to avoid him leaving, not because he is going to bring championships.
November 23rd, 2022 at 1:43 PM ^
I mean...last season they were within sniffing distance. But that will likely be his peak, so yeah.
November 23rd, 2022 at 5:42 PM ^
He only finished 3rd in the B1G East…
November 23rd, 2022 at 7:22 PM ^
The Jimbo Fisher comparisons are such a joke. Jimbo is having a laughable year, sure, but it’s not preposterous that he got a big contract. He has won 73% of his games over 13 years including a NATIONAL TITLE. Tuck has won butt and 50% of his games over four years.
November 23rd, 2022 at 1:35 PM ^
Have we seen proof that Day is a great coach? I missed that.
November 23rd, 2022 at 1:47 PM ^
The workplace buzzword ‘quiet quitting’ comes to mind.
November 23rd, 2022 at 3:26 PM ^
His second job is in IT where all he does is tell people to reboot their modem.
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:47 PM ^
Pure...Sparty...again...
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:50 PM ^
So did the athletic department just hand Mel 100K with no strings attached? Harbaugh’s situation was very different. AD went to pay him his earned bonus and he told them to spread it to his assistants.
If so that’s as nuts as him keeping it IMO.
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:53 PM ^
True, imagine your company just like handing your boss a bunch of cash and saying "distribute as you see fit." Horrific management all the way up.
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:59 PM ^
Spoiler alert: this is how many companies actually operate.
November 23rd, 2022 at 1:45 PM ^
This is true. I have been a manager at various companies for years. Every year I am given a chunk of money for both bonuses and raises and need to determine how to divide it up amongst my team. The only difference is I can't keep any of it for myself like Tuck did.
November 23rd, 2022 at 2:18 PM ^
If I give you the raise and bonus you're asking for Mr. Hatter, there won't be any money left for the rest of the team.
Fuck you, pay me.
November 23rd, 2022 at 3:06 PM ^
Yep, just logged my allocations this morning matter of fact. Separate bonus and salary pools. I am given guidelines as "suggestions" based on where people are in paybands, but I have the autonomy to give more/less as I see fit. One thing I cannot due (thanks to business controls) is pocket any of it for myself.
What Tucker did was a classic Michael Scott move in the episode where they run a surplus and instead of buying new chairs or a copy machine he tries to pocket it without the staff knowing.
November 23rd, 2022 at 4:40 PM ^
Tucker must have some Ruskie blood.
November 24th, 2022 at 10:03 AM ^
"I already HAVE $643"
November 23rd, 2022 at 2:36 PM ^
"For the 10 year in a row, I am the employee of the year? Wow, I will spend this bonus thinking about all of you."
November 23rd, 2022 at 5:11 PM ^
Not his assistants. All AD employees who were affected by Covid cost cutting pay cuts.
November 23rd, 2022 at 8:32 PM ^
Thnk you for the clarificication follow up.
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:52 PM ^
Tuck is really doing everything in his power to give Staee the ability to fire with cause and get out of that horrendous contract. But the Spartans I've talked to swear the administration has no desire to do so even if they're able. Jackpot.
November 23rd, 2022 at 7:09 PM ^
My take is that State is doing everything in its power to find reasons to fire with cause and to make those reasons public.
November 23rd, 2022 at 7:50 PM ^
Tuck really should watch his step. No upscale hookers on his expense account etc.
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:52 PM ^
I had to take a peek at RCMB to see the stupid takes, and they didn’t let me down. One narrative is the reporting has racial undertones—it would not be a big deal if the HC and AD were not black. This is funny, because they regularly discredit any success Juwan Howard has and instead attribute it to Martelli.
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:54 PM ^
The few times I've gone over there I've seen some heinous things said about Juwan because of his skin color, so the irony is hilarious. For all this blog's commenters' flaws I have never seen one person mention Tuck's race.
November 23rd, 2022 at 1:45 PM ^
Every village has at least one idiot, and ours is no exception, but I think we do a good job of policing our own (calling out nonsense) and the mods do good work. By no means are we a perfect community, but compared to that cesspool, we are saints.
November 23rd, 2022 at 1:55 PM ^
Their biggest mistake in hiring Tucker was in marketing him with all of this hip-hop adjacent tough guy shit (dogs on leashes, Ferraris, big cigars) and crowning him as King shit of the B1G before he ever accomplished anything significant. It made him an easy target, particularly this Tuck Comin' horseshit. It rings a little hollow when you are getting beaten by 3 win Indiana at home with a bowl game on the line.
November 23rd, 2022 at 3:08 PM ^
MSU fans literally called Juwan and the Fab Five the "N" word by chanting in the early 90s. It should not surprise anyone that they have a large, vocal racist contingent.
November 23rd, 2022 at 1:45 PM ^
That's rather ironic because I've seen plenty of posts criticizing him that have racial overtones. Even some of the other posters call it out.
November 23rd, 2022 at 2:17 PM ^
Certain radio shows love to play up the "Juwan needs to be taught how to behave" racial paternalism without saying it explicitly
November 23rd, 2022 at 2:57 PM ^
At least someone else hates the freep too.
November 23rd, 2022 at 12:54 PM ^
What a greedy and evil turkey!
November 23rd, 2022 at 1:33 PM ^
Turkey tasted great. Couldn't eat on the porch, though.