MSU paying Tucker $5.5 million per year, 6 year deal
$33 million over 6 years for a guy with 5 career head coaching victories. Puts him at 12th highest paid coach in the country.
6.7.0February 13th, 2020 at 10:22 AM ^
Why would bringing in recruiting guys matter? They brought Blackwell in, who had Michigan connections, and the only highly ranked people he could bring had highly questionable character who were kicked off the team. MSU isn’t shitty on the recruiting trail because they can’t hire a dynamic recruiter. They are shitty because they are MSU and they have Michigan and OSU taking all their plan A guys, making them settle for plan B and plan C guys. Marrow isn’t going to change that
February 12th, 2020 at 10:45 PM ^
The fuck...
February 12th, 2020 at 10:51 PM ^
Nothing says little brother more than paying a coach twice his market rate. It just tells you how bad a job it is at this time. That being said time will judge the tenure of Mel Tucker. I hope he keeps it cleaner than the debauchery that was the Dantonio era, if nothing else for the citizens of Michigan.
February 12th, 2020 at 10:56 PM ^
That’s $6.4 million per career victory. The next State fan that I hear say Harbaugh is overpaid is getting punched right in the dick. By the same ratio of dollars to career victory, Harbaugh’s initial contract at Michigan would’ve been worth just under $685 million.
February 12th, 2020 at 11:14 PM ^
Its not acceptable to hit women. Even MSU women.
February 12th, 2020 at 11:01 PM ^
My Sparty wife, as awesome as she is, believes this is a step up for Tucker’s career and a lateral position to UM head coach.
She is pretty level headed in all things in life so this has me baffled.
February 12th, 2020 at 11:25 PM ^
She better be either rich or super hot to marry a Spartan SMH
February 12th, 2020 at 11:32 PM ^
I've got some bad news for you mate: she ain't as awesome as you think.
Sports, like politics, provides a window into truly how rational a person is or isn't.
February 12th, 2020 at 11:40 PM ^
Nice try, go back to Conparoni
February 13th, 2020 at 4:58 AM ^
It was a good old fashioned hustle. He tweeted out that he wasn't interested, sparty comes back with an additional $2 million.
My wife is a sparty too, I think she has a pretty good feel for what's going on: Step up for Tucker's career and is getting PAID.
February 12th, 2020 at 11:02 PM ^
I mean, I can understand why he took their money, I just can't understand why they offered it. Can't really understand anything this school has ever done in the first place, though, so: par for the course.
February 13th, 2020 at 1:11 AM ^
Didn’t you hear? They offered the money because Saban told them to.
February 12th, 2020 at 11:02 PM ^
He will always be known as the rebound
February 12th, 2020 at 11:07 PM ^
6 years loooooool
Something tells me that contract might not run its whole length
February 12th, 2020 at 11:11 PM ^
Let’s review MSU football staff spending for the next six years committed to the last two weeks.
$4.3 mil bonus to Mork
$1 mil annual make work job for Mork
$3 mil buyout to Colorado for Tucker
$33 mil in salary for Tucker
$38 mil assistant salary pool
unknown commitment to facility improvements
Total: $79.3 million and possibly more based on facilities and how long Mork milks them.
February 12th, 2020 at 11:18 PM ^
Didn't the university recently pay out many millions to nassar victims? How can they afford all this?
February 13th, 2020 at 7:07 AM ^
thye get 45-60mil PER YEAR from the BTN
February 13th, 2020 at 7:19 AM ^
University money and athletic dept money are different bank accounts.
February 12th, 2020 at 11:35 PM ^
You forgot the $1.125M per cycle for steroids and masking agents
February 12th, 2020 at 11:13 PM ^
It's funny that we know it was about the money because he tweeted just days before that he wasn't interested.
February 12th, 2020 at 11:17 PM ^
It’s never the money.
Its the amount.
February 12th, 2020 at 11:27 PM ^
I hope you were smoking a cigar and drinking brandy as you were thumbing that out...pure copper
February 13th, 2020 at 12:04 AM ^
It's not the money, it's the stuff.
February 13th, 2020 at 12:05 AM ^
It's not the money, it's all the stuff.
February 12th, 2020 at 11:17 PM ^
All the “Harbaugh being over paid” dumb fucks, including all the media in all the state of Michigan, can shut the fuck up now
February 13th, 2020 at 10:08 AM ^
Should they shut up though? This MSU deal seems incredibly silly but Harbaugh is overpaid for the results he’s delivered. I’m not sure MSU is the best comparison when evaluating decisions.
February 13th, 2020 at 3:35 PM ^
If Harbaugh is overpaid, then Tucker is in a different universe.
And anyway, Harbaugh got paid his going rate at the time. Remember, M was competing with the NFL, who wanted to throw all the cash at him too. Even significantly more than Michigan did.
MSU was competing with absolutely nobody except themselves. They more than doubled the salary of a guy whose entire HC record consists of 5-7 at Colorado.
The two aren't even comparable.
February 13th, 2020 at 9:01 PM ^
I just said maybe we shouldn’t be comparing with MSU. Multiple things can be true at once: Harbaugh received his contract based on his market value. It absolutely makes sense he was offered what he was offered at the time. He hasn’t really lived up to those expectations. 7 mil a year should be better than 3rd place in the east and 0-5 vs OSU.
Michigan State is a tire fire and the amount they offered Tucker is absurd. These things can all be true.
February 13th, 2020 at 12:25 AM ^
If that's the going rate for avoiding the embarrassment of having to choose between Mike Tressel and Bert Bielema, well, you gotta do what you gotta do.
February 13th, 2020 at 1:18 AM ^
Still not convinced this guy will do better than Bert though. Also, this guy has already compromised his own integrity with the "staying put" schtick. Off to a banner start, in true Sparty fashion...
February 13th, 2020 at 5:06 AM ^
Fucking stupid and Obscene. I normally do no bemoan what anyone is paid...but this is ridiculous. If I were a student at MSU, Id be pissed.
February 13th, 2020 at 5:16 AM ^
I’m no expert on Tucker, but I don’t recall him being anything exceptional as a coach.
February 13th, 2020 at 6:08 AM ^
Good for Mel Tucker. How much was Dantonio making?
February 13th, 2020 at 6:43 AM ^
Lots of faith in an amount that they think equals success for an unproven HC. Just bury them the first few years and watch the temperature rise.
February 13th, 2020 at 7:23 AM ^
Pat Forde has an excellent article up on SI about how hypocritical the NCAA is about not paying athletes and how incompetent schools like MSU are in hiring and just using piles of money to hide their incompetence.
https://www.si.com/college/2020/02/12/michigan-state-mel-tucker-salary-ncaa
February 13th, 2020 at 8:12 AM ^
I’m trying hard not to laugh at this, but.. it’s difficult. He may work out well, but goodness.
February 13th, 2020 at 10:33 AM ^
I am in the wrong fn business.
February 13th, 2020 at 11:27 AM ^
I have no issue with this guy getting paid this much money. He is getting $2.75 Million per year to coach football. And $2.75 Million per year to be at Michigan State University. I think that's a fair offer for having to be affiliated with that horrible institution.
February 13th, 2020 at 12:33 PM ^
I betting line of over / under $1 million per win sounds appropriate to me
February 13th, 2020 at 12:40 PM ^
My phone news feed suggested a fluff piece from the free press on how this guy is msu footballs biggest victory in years....
“He was inspiring,” said Beekman, the school’s athletic director. “He made me want to suit up.”
... So the guy who hired him thinks he'll do a good job, insightful journalism.
February 14th, 2020 at 8:55 AM ^
he's blowing out all the assistants too.