Big Interview: Michigan State head coach Mel Tucker
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Michigan State was one of college football's best stories last season. Andy welcomes Spartans head coach Mel Tucker to the podcast to discuss how his program is cultivating talent, and what he and his players learned from the 2020 season that lent itself to a successful 2021. The duo also converse about the lasting memory of the late Trevor Moawad, and how his lessons influenced, not only the Spartan football team, but Andy and Mel as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.6 | Big show for you today. |
| 0:12.8 | Big interview, special guest, very special guest. |
| 0:16.0 | Mel Tucker, the Michigan State head coach coming off in 11 and 2 season. |
| 0:19.8 | The Spartans just won the Peach Bowl. |
| 0:22.1 | Huge year in Mel Tucker's second year in East Lansing. |
| 0:26.2 | Sat down and talked to him about his season, |
| 0:28.6 | but also about something that's very special to me and also pretty special to Mel. |
| 0:34.6 | Mel is a big part of a book that I helped write that is coming out at the beginning of |
| 0:41.4 | February. And that book is called Getting to Neutral, How to Conquer Negativity and Thrive in a |
| 0:47.2 | chaotic World. And it's a follow-up to a book that I helped a guy named Trevor Moad, right, |
| 0:53.9 | called It Takes What It Takes. And Trevor was the mental conditioning coach who worked follow-up to a book that I helped a guy named Trevor Mowad, right, called it takes what it |
| 0:54.7 | takes. |
| 0:55.6 | And Trevor was the mental conditioning coach who worked with Alabama. |
| 1:00.1 | He worked with Florida State when Jim O. Fisher was there. |
| 1:02.9 | He worked with Georgia. |
| 1:04.7 | Mel Tucker had him working at Colorado and at Michigan State. |
| 1:09.7 | And Trevor and I got to know each other because I was doing stories on him while he was |
| 1:14.1 | working with Alabama and Florida State. |
| 1:16.3 | And he got a book deal a few years ago. |
| 1:19.6 | And he called me and he said, hey, would you be willing to help me write the book? |
| 1:24.0 | And I was honored and had a lot of fun writing it. |
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